
Detail of Superman and Superdog in Jail, 1963, by Peter Saul, at the Orange County Museum of Art, through September 21st. Read the review in the L.A. Times. (FYI: The show isn’t all that. But Saul’s pieces from the early ’60s are definitely worth checking out.) (Photo by C-M.)
- Let Them Eat Foam: G-8 leaders suck down 18-courses as they discuss world food crisis.
- Totally rad tech-web installation art of the day: Pulse, by Markus Kison. Don’t skip the video. It’s trippy as hell.
- ¡Art Industry Smackdown! The S.F. Chronicle’s Kenneth Baker vs. Dale Chihuly at the De Young.
- The Tate Liverpool is terribly worried that under-18s might get irreversibly corrupted by the sight of Klimt’s nudes.
- The Denver Post follows up on the Denver Art Museum’s eyebrow-raising acquisition dealings. Follow-ups to MAN’s original posts here and here.
- This looks cool: LACMA acquires collection of rare Pacific Island art.
- London’s National Gallery unveils 18 recently-bequeathed masterpieces by the likes of Monet, Degas and Gaugin.
- Tracey Emin sculpture goes missing and is then mysteriously returned. (Via A.O.)
- For those with $$$ in their eyes: A London auctions round-up.
- Reason No. 1,787 not to attack Iran: Their art market is booming. (Via A.J.)
- Marshall Astor is in Thailand working on a show and eating some spectacular-looking street food.
- Graff of the Day: Sego in Mexico.
- Augor and Revok redo a Dark Knight billboard in L.A. (Frackin’ awesome.) Sorta related: Augor’s doing T-shirts.
- Mural as Audubon Guide: Elkpen in L.A. paints the birds of Hollywood.
- A wonderful quote on Archidose about how to understand the land, which leads me to wonder how many architects actually spend any time in nature.
- Photo Essay: Prefab houses going up at MoMA. Plus: Images of Frank Gehry’s pavilion at the Serpentine in London.
- Sleuths’ claim that they’ve discovered 29 Frank Lloyd Wright houses in Illinois is heavily disputed.
- This November, the focus of the Chicago Humanities Festival will be architecture.
- Architecture that looks like papel picado: Technicolor Bloom by Brennan Buck.
- Your moment of techno-kitties.
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