Momo and Melissa Brown at Gallery Espeis in Brooklyn. (Photo by Luna Park.)
I’m currently doing some investigative research on the burritos of Southern California. As a result, posting times will be operating on Pacific Time, and may be erratic due to entanglements with carne asada and rush hour traffic. Thanks for your patience! xox, C.
- A monument to colon cleansing. We feel fresher already.
- The results are in for the Brooklyn Museum’s crowd-curated exhibit, Click!
- A lawsuit over L.A. MoCA’s Murakami Louis Vuitton bags.
- Warhol not a Warhol, says a lawsuit filed in a state court in Brooklyn.
- Jordan returns 2,500 looted artifacts to Iraq. (Via A.J.)
- Silent World: The work of Michael Kenna. (Via Monoscope.)
- Those are some expensive-ass water lilies: Monet painting sells for $80.5 million at auction. More here. In related news: It’s the über-rich that are keeping the art market afloat.
- Philippe Starck to get his own reality show. Thought: Someone should do a reality show where museum types compete to become director of the Met (or any of the other institutions that currently don’t have directors). Contests could include: how much money they can raise at a one-hour wine-and-cheese cocktail party, best European accent, and something that involves plucking all the change out of the fountain at the Temple of Dendur. Whoever has the most damp pennies wins!!
- Photo Essay: Unusual materials in sculpture.
- An Olympics parallel: Mexico 1968 versus Beijing 2008.
- Midwest flood updates in one, two and three parts.
- The town of Kenilworth, Ill., site of homes by Frank Lloyd Wright, Daniel Burnham and George Maher, is seeking to have the entire town placed on the National Register of Historic Places, to the dismay of some home owners.
- Paul Goldberger on architectural whose-is-bigger on Colbert.
- Newly-minted media mogul Sam Zell may sell Chicago’s historic Tribune Tower, as well as the 1930s Art Moderne building that houses the L.A. Times.
- Yours truly writin’ on the giganto LED wall in Beijing. Though who knows if anyone will be able to see it through the smog.
- Rotating buildings in Dubai? No doubt a bitch to maintain.
- Looks like a big, orange paper lamp (in a cool way): The Zenith music hall in Strasbourg.
- Graff of the Day: SKER, FBGS, SANER, DSR and EYOS in Mexico. More here.
- A video about taxpayer money poorly spent: the City of New York versus Mike Baca, a.k.a. 2ESAE.
- Concrete skateboards.
- Your moment of McCain vogue-ing.
Posted by C-Monster.
‘Bout that Monet: In Carol Vogel’s article yesterday in the NYT, the was this:
“Unlike most of his late works, which remained unfinished at the time of his death in 1926, this series was sold by him. One is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; another was cut in two; and a third is in a private collection . . .”
Another was cut in two?!!? What? How? By whom? I emailed her about this but got an automated NYT response.
Not a burrito, but DAMN. Oaxaca on Venice just off of La Ceniega.
oh. those look soooo good.
And it’s right around the corner from all those galleries in Culver City on the QED and MC end. Oh. You are so there. I not kidding you. It was one of the best meals of my life.
Dont know if its still in business, but Johnnies Burrito, on Ventura Avenue in Ventura, used to make the most kick ass chile relleno burrito ever.