Waiting to meet the band at the Los Tigres del Norte concert, Brooklyn. Photo by C-M.
- The stratastencil. (Via ackackack.)
- Because the Dear Leader Said So: Press escorted everywhere by minders during the NY Philharmonic’s gig in North Korea. (BTW, if you haven’t read Guy Delisle’s Pyongyang, go get it now.)
- Talking Points Memo becomes first blogger to win Polk Award. (Via ackackack.)
- In less lofty blogosphere developments: Man liveblogs his vasectomy.
- No condos here: Charles Bukowski’s L.A. home named a landmark! (Via The Elegant Variation.)
- The wood sculptures of Mike Rea.
- Photos of the Day: No-Tell Motel, Holiday Inn.
- Make it stop: Andy Warhol perfume.
- An interview with Yayoi Kusama. (Via Art Observed.)
- Wearable pixels.
- Even during Black History Month, black artists are MIA from galleries.
- Artists wanted for hot one-inch action in Vancouver. (Via AFC.)
- The Day in Magnanimous Art Dealers: The Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland to get beaucoup pieces from Anthony d’Offay, including works by Sol Lewitt, Joseph Beuys, Gilbert and George, Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst. (There are some names you never hear…)
- Art press release factoid of the week.
- The Prado restores two Goya masterpieces damaged in the 1930s, when they were moved away from Madrid because of fighting related to the Civil War.
- LACMA + MoCA=A real museum.
- Culver City hot, hot, hot.
- Milwaukee Art Museum team wins design award.
- No Dutch Masters For You: Reopening of the Rijksmuseum delayed until 2013. (Via ArtForum.)
- The Thing.
- Nekkid lady gets a Slog reader’s skivvies in a knot.
- An evolution of the graffiti wall at Dean Lane skatepark in Bristol.
- Graff of the Day: The Krah in the U.K.
- Video interview with L.A.’s Retna.
- Pollution turns Chinese river red.
- Your moment of hot chicks with douchebags. (Via LA Taco.)
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Detail of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s The Gates. Photo by niznoz.
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Ilana Bloch at California Dreamin’: LA to HI at the Nu-uanu Gallery at Mark’s Garage, in Honolulu. Photo by San Suzie.
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Thangka paintings from Bhutan.
Photos from the opening of The Dragon’s Gift: The Sacred Arts of Bhutan at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, which opens today. The show was so moving that it discouraged us from taking our usual clandestine photos. We did, however, manage to blow $80 on incense, in what will no doubt be a vain attempt to take a little bit of Bhutanese compassion back to the mainland.
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“I’m gonna need back-up.” Detail of a shrine by the Endless Love Crew. (Photos by C-M.)
Photos from the Ad Nauseum Lyceum show at the chashama gallery in Harlem, organized by Ryan Frank, Rory Sheridan and Deena Selenow, through Wednesday, February 27th.
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Detail of El Greco’s El Entierro del Conde de Orgaz. Photo by lyceo_hispanico.
- Hot shit on a shingle. Nader to run again.
- The Star Trek Tour. Make it so.
- Wired.com looking for photos in red.
- Because the art world really needs more cock: an artist in Australia paints with his penis.
- KRink, the brand.
- Graff of the Day: Henes in Nayarit.
- Interview with the late Tony Silver, director of Style Wars. (Via Ekosystem.)
- Where graffiti and the cosmetic industry intersect: MAC Fafi.
- Book: The Original Art of Basil Wolverton.
- The candidates and their gestures, as interpreted by Rachel Mason. (Via Bloggy.)
- Photos of the Day: Dionisio González.
- And another worthwhile pic: Driver in a West Virginia Mine.
- No decision yet on whether there will be a Louis Vuitton shop inside Murakami’s Brooklyn Museum show.
- Lucas Cranach the Elder, the Andy Warhol of 16th century Vienna?
- Hello, Yale? Peru called. They want their stuff back.
- Even forgers can have their day in museums.
- TripAdvisor’s Top 10 art museums.
- Art dealers, start your engines: Art Gallery of Ontario to start Cuban art collection.
- Soon, the only wilderness anyone will see will be fake.
- Break out the platinum card: Monet’s Railroad Bridge at Argenteuil is up for grabs.
- British government to fund art apprenticeships.
- Just in case you missed it: late-night show host combat.
- I want to sleep in the middle of a frozen lake and fish from sleeping bag. (Antonio, I’ll pack the Scotch.)
- Vintage Anime: An invasion of evil Mickey Mice. (Is there any other kind?)
- Bono doesn’t have a sense of humor: Product (RED) issues cease-and-desist letter to charitable parody site, (RE).
- Graphic novel Shakespeare.
- Profile of Richard Rogers.
- Speed dating, architects and developers edition.
- Book: Ecological Houses.
- Soap.
- Instructions for taking care of a baby.
- Your moment of birth control.
