Mona Lisa. Photo by losermike.
- Sculptural stairmaster.
- Is Frank Gehry’s Atlantic Yards project, like, totally over?
- Kanye West not sure if he likes the Kevlar observation deck that’s planned for the Eiffel Tower’s 120th Anniversary.
- It’s Art Fair season in NYC! Bust out those maps, courtesy of the able cartographers at Art Fag City.
- “Can you get more vulgar than Richard Prince?”
- So totally freaky: Homer Simpson un-tooned. (Via NotCot.)
- Decision 2008—Art Museum Edition: The Carter in Fort Worth is letting people vote on their favorite piece in the collection. (See the collection’s highlights here.)
- In related news: The Scottsdale Museum of Art is having a competition to redesign strip malls. (Via Off Center.)
- A round-up of contemporary art in California.
- It’s not just museums trafficking in stolen antiquities. It’s rich people with weekend houses, too. (Via AJ.)
- Mortgage crisis hits cultural institutions.
- A nice round-up of work by the Billboard Liberation Front.
- Hedge funds for the art industry: Art funds. Kinda makes ya gag, don’t it?
- Chinese photography in Denver: hot, hot, hot.
- Panda-inspired fashion.
- Speaking of our ursine friends: the Art of Bears.
- Teutonic Sci-Fi.
- Only in the dead tree edition: Kara Walker and Louise Bourgeois in Flaunt. (Now there’s a pair that would make for interesting small talk at the company picnic.)
- Kiki Smith wallpaper.
- Permanent vacation. (Via AFC.)
- Beating Heart by Billy Chasen. (Via NotCot.)
- Men Who Look Like Old Lesbians. (Via World’s Best Ever.)
- Street artist Skullphone hacked into an L.A. digital billboard for a guerilla skull takeover.
- Video: Revs in Bomb It.
- Graff of the Day: Scott in Cardiff.
- From the Department of Fuck Yeah! The Iron Maiden airplane.
- While I was on the phone with Yahoo tech support this morning, I read the most astonishing piece by Paul Salopek in the latest issue of National Geographic about human survival in the Sahel, that fringe area in Africa where the Sahara meets vegetation. Made me realise I should never ever feel sorry for myself over silly things, like blogs…
- And, pleasepleaseplease, don’t forget to check out C-Monster on Time.com.
- Your moment of beaver. (Thank you, once again, Antonio.)
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I’m with Kanye.
This summer I got to hang out with a really cool Chinese photographer, Liu Jin. Fun fact: He has a son named Booboo.