
Tribute to the Best Mom in the World, 2008, by Andrew Sexton at Oliver Kamm, in NYC. Opening night featured an ice cream boar’s head that was quite delicious. Hopefully I won’t find out later that it contained the artist’s spit. The exhibit runs until June 21st. (Photo by C-M.)
- Jerry Saltz writes an elegy to the East Village’s Tower of Toys: “It wasn’t beautiful, but it was beautifully eccentric, part of a folk-art tradition put together from the detritus and wreckage of once-raggedy neighborhoods by individuals working on the edge of society.”
- Jake and Dinos Chapman are making a movie and it’s rumored to be about the art world.
- From the Department of No Duh: Coochie-covered chairs designed for a London park by painter Jonathan Yeo are rejected for being too pornographic.
- The Day in Art Merch: Alex Katz beach towels and Glass House Moleskine notebooks.
- Photos and Video: Josiah McElheny talks about Conceptual Drawings for a Chandelier.
- Art Basel shifts schedule to accommodate soccer tourney in Switzerland. Also part of the story: Gallerists beseeching various supernatural forces that collectors will still be dropping big bucks on contemporary art when the fair opens next week.
- Photo essay: Sony’s photographic archive, including pics of Dylan, Sly Stone, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk.
- The urban architecture of the upcoming Frank Miller flick, The Spirit.
- Video of Andy Warhol’s photos at Cal State Fullerton.
- Graff of the Day: Sums in Bristol.
- Photos from the Electric Windows show in Beacon, N.Y.
- CNN covers the story of KRink. (Via Supertouch.)
- Photo Essay: The Architecture of Authority.
- RIBA names the best buildings in Britain. The list includes buildings by Richard Rogers, David Adjaye, Norman Foster and David Chipperfield.
- It’s What’s For Breakfast: Renderings of the Egg Building in Mumbai.
- Richard Meier talks green. (Via Unbeige.)
- A lecture by Juan Freire at the Medialab Prado on the issue of managing public space. (Set aside some time for this one. It’s long, but worth it.)
- A giant wooden cactus. (If you live in L.A., you can see this on Friday: Info here.)
- Your moment of Fresh Prince, in Italian.
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