At the Cadillac Ranch, in Amarillo, Tex. (Photo by dentist_tx.)
- George Lucas, frozen in carbonite.
- Jeffrey Deitch on Banksy: “When you can buy a superb Picasso drawing for $500,000 and a work dashed off by Banksy for the same price, does that make sense to you?” (Via Animal.) More here.
- Picasso’s Guernica in better health than previously thought.
- Proposed San Francisco law would make it illegal to harm animals when making art. But not when making steak.
- Giant advertisement for Chanel, designed by Zaha Hadid, to make a touch down in NYC’s Central Park this October.
- Because spending money on simple art is not enough: Collectors to auction themselves to art newbies as advisers.
- A nude portrait of a woman, banned in the ‘40s by a Welsh town because it was considered too “brazen,” is now considered risqué because the principal figure is smoking.
- Winkleman has an interesting post about equity in arts funding among New York’s different cultural groups.
- Andy Warhol…in a pool. (Via Animal.)
- Update: The Village Voice on Bushwick’s emerging arts district.
- The Day in Fictitious Museum Competitons: Tate beating MoMA, reports the Guardian.
- A Q&A with Dan Cameron on Prospect 1, the New Orleans biennial he is curating.
- Pierre Huyghe on his videos from the collaborative project No Ghost Just a Shell.
- Photo Essay: The Young Women of F.L.D.S. (Via ackackack.)
- The 2008 Stirling Prize short list, with pix. (Via architecture.mnp.)
- Photos of S.F.’s new Federal Building by Thomas Mayne. (Via A.J.)
- Fascinating Pairings: Plataforma has side-by-side photos of the first and last works of Le Corbusier, Mies and Frank Lloyd Wright.
- Photos from the architecture showcase at Expo Zaragoza in Spain.
- Far Out: The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will play a 12-movement piece inspired by the Grateful Dead—on what would have been Jerry Garcia’s 66th birthday—complete with psychedelic light show.
- Your moment of Papa Was a Rolling Stone.
Posted by C-Monster.
re Deitch re Banksy quote:
An inaccurate and specious opinion - anyone familiar with Picasso’s process knows his work, especially later drawings, were as equally,” dashed off,” as anything a graffitti artist does; it also falsley implies Banksy (and other street artists) don’t consider their work before taking action.