Ilana Bloch at California Dreamin’: LA to HI at the Nu-uanu Gallery at Mark’s Garage, in Honolulu. Photo by San Suzie.
- Where the hell is Lou Dobbs? Oscars outsourcing awards to ferners, who do the job better for cheaper.
- In related news: this is the song I’d like to have played at my funeral.
- Totally awesome video of the Cloud sculpture at Heathrow.
- OMG, it’s 1921 all over again: British Museum and British army want to help Iraq restore their culture. More here.
- Cha-ching: The Tate buys sculptures by Jake and Dinos Chapman from Charles Saatchi.
- Think like the animals.
- The Daily Racing Form: The Art Newspaper has some handy charts that rank museum attendance. The Louvre, Centre Pompidou and Tate Modern take the first three slots respectively. (The Americans come in at #5, with the Met and NYC’s MoMA settles in at #15. LACMA, you’ve got a long way to go, baby.)
- Curate yourself into a New Museum exhibit. Just don’t dare take a picture. (Via Razor Apple.)
- Art Fag City, reporting live from ADAA.
- Sculptures by Christopher Conte. (Via ackackack.)
- The Atlantic on The Birth of Cool. (Via Modern Kicks.)
- Bananas don’t have sex.
- Dear Orange County Register: Please cover art.
- I heart trailer trash.
- Inside the Dark Lord Foster’s design for the Beijing airport.
- The Day in Government Effectiveness: Commission on Chicago Landmarks not very good at protecting landmarks.
- Jean Maneval’s plastic bubble house from 1968.
- Well That Explains Everything: Was Adolf Hitler into Disney? (Thanks, RMH.)
- Photo of a glow worm cave.
- Color-blind artist paints by hearing.
- Starbucks, Computer Lab.
- Weird toys at WonderCon.
- Your moment of fucking Matt Damon. Don’t miss the response.
Posted by C-Monster.
The Atlantic on The Birth of the Cool.
Sorry for the pedantry. Thanks for the link. Love that fucking Matt Damon stuff.
Hm, no strikethroughs on that first “The.” Oh well, Typepad does tags differently, I guess.
der. i’ve been misreading it for weeks now… thanks!