
Trinity Church in Asunción, Paraguay. Courtesy of the Notre Dame architecture library, where they have been dutifully putting scans all of their vintage architecture shots on Flickr.
- In the Toilet: Bush’s disapproval ratings the highest of any President in the 70-year history of the Gallup Poll.
- Call her Hill-rod.
- The art of Chris Scarborough.
- Modern Art Notes offers a guide on how to keep museum blogs interesting.
- Art to Go and Hrag Vartanian not wild about Eric Gibson’s take on coma-inducing artspeak in the WSJ.
- Bitchcraft, and other magazines we wish still existed so that we could write for them. (Thanks, Yvonne!)
- Also from Yvonne: Shorpy, the 100-Year-Old Photo Blog. Does General Hugh Brady look like a toker or what? Here’s one of Yvonne’s favorites: Hiawatha Noir, 1943.
- Vintage hip-hop photos from 1984. (Via ackackack.)
- The photography of Amy Stein.
- Happy Birthday, Jack Nicholson! Here’s one of my favorites.
- Arts organizations beginning to feel the pain of the recession.
- The Rijksmuseum presents two restored panels by Piero di Cosimo. (Not sure what the deal is with the gesticulating dude in the photo.)
- Pantone’s Color of the Year: Blue Iris. (Via Eyebeam reBlog.)
- Pain as art.
- Japanese construction fences used to display art. (Via NotCot.)
- Photos of work by Martin and Muñoz.
- Art piñatas.
- This news should inspire some action on global warming.
- The converted sea forts of Great Britain. (Via Marshall Astor.)
- John Silber, author of a book about how contemporary architecture sucks, oversaw the construction of fugly-ass buildings in Boston, reports Bloomberg.
- Trippy Mondrian-like architecture of the Day: Qubic Student Housing by hvdn architecture in Amsterdam.
- Book: D Book, a new tome dealing with density issues in urban architectural design.
- Richard Neutra’s Kauffman House in Palm Springs will go up for auction on May 13th.
- A trip to visit the 12th century minaret at Jam in Afghanistan.
- Photos from the upcoming Philips De Pury auction, featuring work by Kaws, Nara, Murakami and Barry McGee.
- Graff of the Day: Grito and Ayrz in Barcelona.
- Photos from Ghost’s show at BLVD Gallery.
- Leon Reid, aka Darius Jones, aka Verbs, has signed copies of The Adventures of Darius & Downey available on his website.
- Kinda looks like a Murakami painting: A map showing where news breaks in the U.S. (Via Coudal.)
- Your moment of P.O.’d dancing techno Vikings.
Posted by C-Monster.
ABSOLUTELY love the pinatas!!! Bday is coming up! Can i get one?
HA! Hugh Brady: “So this one time, Old Hickory and I, you know Andy Jackson, were totally wasted, and we like fighting the British in New Orleans. So get this shit: we totally spaced and had the battle like TWO WEEKS after the war was declared OVER. The dudes in Ghent were PISSED.”
LOL. ;-!