Quits in Athens. (Photo by server_pics.)
- Too rad for words: The Instant Art Critique Phrase Generator. (Via Art251.)
- A profile of the retired policeman who beheaded the wax Hitler on a dare.
- Andrés Serrano now into poop.
- The Forger’s Spell, a book about the 1930s Dutch artist who made lots of cash peddling fake Vermeers to buyers such as Nazi Herman Goering.
- Tracey Emin wants babies. Plus, she thinks the Chinese art market is overhyped: ““Some unknown Chinese artist who was about 30 was selling more than a Damien [Hirst]. It’s not right! If what is happening in the art market was happening anywhere else it would be called insider dealing. It is RIFE!”
- The roller derby art of Jocelyn Foye.
- Nothing upsets a policeman more than a car without an engine: Artists gets pulled over for riding a pedal car.
- Metropolis Mag profiles Eli Broad: L.A.’s self-appointed master builder. (Via A.O.)
- San Franciscans not digging the idea of Gap founder Don Fisher putting his private museum on public land.
- Sales at Christie’s up 10% during the first half, largely due to buyers from the Middle East, Russia and Asia. In related news: London art sales lackluster.
- Graff of the Day: AEC and Interezni Kazki in Kiev. More here.
- “That’s how I roll, motherfucker.” (Via Ekosystem.)
- The Guardian is tired of stupid stories about street art.
- Photos from Doze Green’s and Fefe Talavera’s show at K-Space in Amsterdam.
- NYC gummint officials wipe out a Tat’s Cru “Stop Snitching” mural—two years after it was legally commissioned and painted.
- Photos from the prefab house show at MoMA.
- Frank Gehry comments on the architectural supermarket that is Abu Dhabi: “…People choose one building by me, one by Norman Foster, one by Zaha, one by Jean Nouvel, one by Daniel Libeskind. It becomes a cabinet of horrors.”
- Get over there: Today’s the last day to see Werner Herzog’s Encounters at the End of the World at Film Forum in NYC. Update: My colleague, Mlle. Connasse, tells me that the film will open at BAM this Friday. Whew!
- John McCain is really confused. About a lot of things.
- Your moment of stuff. (Via MAN.)
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