Superman lives, in Williamsburg. (Photo by C-M.)
- Perfect photo essay for a rainy Monday morning: New York when it was ratty, by lensmaster Jill Freedman.
- Sign the petition to save L.A. taco trucks! (Read all about it in the L.A. Times.)
- Most gag-o-rific art sentence of the day, in a story about how various Miami folk, including developer Craig Robins, are going to start a free graduate art program called Art + Research: “The son of a local developer, Robins is a Miami Beach native who’s always had an interest in art (he wanted to trade in his graduation Rolex for a Salvador Dalí print).” What do you think I can get a for a water-resistant Timex?
- Maya Lin’s Confluence project in Oregon is looking for volunteers.
- Photos from the Fluids exhibition at LACMA.
- Berlin bunker converted into art exhibit space. (Via AO.)
- Because the world really needs more problematizing and paradigm inversion: The Top 10 universities for art history “productivity.” In other words: the universities churning out coma-inducing art speak in the heftiest quantities.
- Sculpture of the day: Mike Ross’s Big Rig Jig at Coachella.
- Gorgeous and Gego-esque: Artist Shirazeh Houshiary’s soon-to-be unveiled window at St-Martin-in-the-Fields in London.
- Carlson & Company: The art fabricators that produce art on an industrial scale…such as giganto balloon dogs.
- Lori Nix’s meticulously constructed miniatures.
- Portfolio has a good timeline of how art dealer Larry Salander got into a financial hole. Interesting fact: It seems that his bank continued to loan him money, even when they knew he was in over his head. (Via AO.)
- An absolutely fascinating photo essay about a woman who sews robes for the KKK. (Via Hrag Vartanian.)
- An analysis of the Flickr School of photography.
- A profile of paper artist Jen Stark.
- The Great Big Interwebs Catches the Attention of the Dead-Tree Types: The Kalm Report profiled in the L.A. Times.
- R.I.P. Surrealist painter Enrico Donati.
- Street art of the Day: Momo in London.
- Photos from Super Combo at chashama ABC Gallery in NYC.
- Espo on the loose in Dublin.
- Sucka Pants has a good photo set of the Rockaway Armada show going up at MassMoCA.
- A Q&A with Ghost in the Seattle Times (via WYW).
- Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish Museum to open in San Fran in June.
- Buildings that sprout things.
- In a related story: NYC is looking for designs for their annual green building competition. (Via Archidose.)
- The Chicago Board Options Exchange vandalizes Wrigley Field.
- The online project journal for MoMA’s prefab house exhibit. (Via Archidose.)
- The Klein Bottle House by McBride Charles Ryan, outside of Melbourne.
- Too cool, literally: Frozen waves in Michigan. (Via AFC.)
- Your moment of Cribs, all Star Trek like.
Posted by C-Monster.
I’m starting to see a lot of this stuff about how art history graduate programs are responsible for all the lousy critical/curatorial writing. I think that this is totally irresponsible. Only a small proportion of art historians work on contemporary art, and most of that small group are sensitive to the distinction between history and criticism. Is there some school of art historical thought, some program, some text, anything anywhere that we can point to as the culprit? Or is it just that much easier to blame something we know little (nothing?) about? I think that foes of lousy art writing might productively look elsewhere for their scapegoat. If the current crop of curators are misunderstanding the books their advisors assigned, that is their problem, no? The art historians I know (even those working on very recent art) have been fed up with inarticulate, half-baked ‘problematizing’ for as long as I can remember, but rather than just sitting around writing about how ‘problematic’ it is, they develop other, better alternatives.
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