
Reporting live, from Lincoln Heights: Con las homegirls, chola prom edition.
- Is Google making us stupid? (Via Art21.)
- The paintings of Elsie Kagan. More here.
- Keeping the donors placated: Exhibit shut down at Chicago’s Jewish Museum for being “anti-Israel.” (Via MAN.)
- Is a copy of a Guggenheim copy still a Guggenheim?
- For those who really really care: The full 23-page contract (in French) between the Louvre and the government of Abu Dhabi. (Via Culture Grrl.) Get the summary here.
- The Cleveland Museum of Art reopens. (Via MAN.)
- Art patronage: Now the province of the über young.
- Man charged with plotting to sell a stolen Monet.
- Getting Geometric: Photos of the Esther Stocker exhibit at Museum 52 in London.
- A gallery of creepy paintings. Related: the grotesque in art. (Watch the video on the latter, which is amazingly twisted, in a good way.)
- UCLA Japan scholar Adrian Favell puts Murakami into context. (Via Marshall Astor.)
- Call for entries: Artists that live in Queens.
- Art sentence of the day… The Guardian on Richard Prince at the Serpentine: “So, it’s sexist. But is it interesting? Gosh, no.” And: “It resists long looking; sometimes, it resists looking at all.”
- The sculptures of Ryan Johnson.
- Graff of the Day: Revok, Zesor and Augor in L.A.
- Frank Gehry to receive lifetime achievement award at Venice Biennale.
- World Trade Center rebuild won’t be finished until the middle of the next decade. And it’s gonna cost $3 billion more than planned. (Via The Skyline.)
- A scaled replica of a cell in Guantanamo Bay is traveling the country. (Via architecture.mnp.)
- Modern treehouses.
- Your moment of fox on a trampoline.
Posted by C-Monster.
I want a tree house for my homegirls…