Los de la Efe, in Mexico. Photo by losdelaefe.
- The world’s creepiest playgrounds. (Via VSL.)
- Graff of the Day: Zonenkinder and Care in Germany.
- Major Mural of the Day: KMDG Crew in Amsterdam.
- Totally weird interview with Barry McGee.
- Film geek graffiti. (Via ackackack.)
- Richard Rodgers picks his seven favorite buildings from among his designs.
- A video about Gropius and the Bauhaus. (Which keeps getting stuck at Minute 12, but you’ll nonetheless enjoy some fine footage of Gropius smoking a cigar, among other things…)
- In NYC: Obfuscating the true nature of crap-ass mega-development projects with bogus renderings in order to get them approved.
- Koolhaas to expand Prada Foundation building in Milan.
- Interior of the National Arts Center in Tokyo by Kisho Kurokawa.
- The Day in Religious Architecture: Church of Santa Monica by Vicens + Ramos in Madrid.
- Japanese Vogue to use Hello Kitty as a model for John Galliano designs.
- Photo Essay: Cowboys and Tintype.
- “Boring postcards.” (Via Coudal.)
- Germaine Greer at the Guardian describes newly discovered Picasso as “a thoroughly undistinguished piece of work.”
- Now get back to your poker tables: The last day at Guggenheim Vegas.
- The Copy Conundrum: When is a copy a copy and when is it not a copy? Cai Guo-Qiang Inopportune: Stage One edition. Original post in The Slog. Follow ups in the Guardian and the Seattle P-I.
- Happenings are happening in L.A.
- Spindle, a 1989 sculpture of seven cars impaled on a metal pole, by Dustin Shuler, will likely be removed from a Berwyn, Ill. parking lot to make way for a Walgreen’s. (Via NotCot.)
- Yale student who says she induced miscarriages for her art not for reals, says Yale spokesperson. “The entire project is an art piece, a creative fiction designed to draw attention to the ambiguity surrounding form and function of a woman’s body.” Um, okay. Either way, it’s grody.
- The Day in Art Fakery: Chinese and German editions.
- Vintage Tango: La Cumparsita.
- In this corner…Schjeldahl on Eliasson: “If leadership in public-spirited art extravaganzas were a political office—and it sometimes feels as if it were—he’d have my vote.”
- And in this corner…Finch on Eliasson: “So complete is his fakery, that he does not even supply the illusion of magic, but a kind of anti-magic which deceives the lemmings of the New York art world into denying their own senses and giving over big chunks of the city to his mediocre and mendacious tunnel vision.”
- Plushie chairs.
- How ABC News finds questioners for the debates. (Via ackackack.)
- Retro beauty ads. This one’s pretty spooky. And this one looks inspired by Charlton Heston.
- It’s Earth Day: Buy more shit. (Via Murketing.)
- 1970s Brazilian sexploitation film posters.
- Your moment of getting your groove on, Storm Trooper edition.
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I love the day in art fakery (Chinese Edition) link. I’ve been to some of these factories and seen people sitting around and cranking out hand painted porcelain pieces for hours. It’s cool to see that someone is encouraging their individuality and that they’re actually talented artists. I’d love to see a lot more of these.