Milk and Cheese! by Evan Dorkin. (Image courtesy of eskarina8.)
- Dear McCain: You are running for President. Not the head of the Phoenix Kiwanis. Get your ass to the debate. Related: The L.A. Times reports that culture is not on the debate agenda. But this year, the debate doesn’t seem to be on the debate agenda either. Update: McCain will debate.
- Trippy stop-motion animation video about the passage of time as evidenced by guys with beards. (Via AFC.)
- Steve Wynn’s busted-up Picasso to be put on public display in New York for the first time since the casino mogul poked his elbow through it.
- AFC reports that the Chelsea Art Museum canceled a show on terrorism because it “glorified terrorism and showed disrespect for its victims.” The museum’s chief curator has resigned in protest. More here. UPDATE: It appears that the cancellation didn’t have to do with politics. The original posts at Eyeteeth and AFC have been updated.
- Modern Art Notes has been covering the tenuous future of Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty all week. Here’s the full round-up.
- Across the pond: The Guardian has video of the Mark Rothko retrospective at the Tate and Wallpaper has a report and lots o’ pix of the Liverpool Biennial.
- In Australia: Aboriginal rock art found in the Wellington Range might rewrite the country’s history. (Via Hrag.)
- Eric Lafforge’s photographs of North Korea. Nothing unofficial, but remarkable nonetheless.
- Stoner Art Video of the Day: Michael Bell Smith’s On the Grid.
- Fed chief Ben Bernanke compares the bailout to buying a painting at Sotheby’s. (More here.) All I know is that if the government is comparing its policies to the voodoo economics of auction houses, then we are truly fucked.
- In a related story: Kathy Fuld, the wife of Lehman CEO Dick Fuld, will be auctioning off $20 million worth of art, including rare drawings by Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky and Agnes Martin. Unrelated: A rare Picasso will also be hitting the block.
- Porn: De-porned.
- The NYT on Catherine Opie. They like her. They really, really like her.
- More of Flaming Pablum’s lovely pix of New York.
- Graff of the Day: Conor Harrington in NYC.
- Concrete spraycans and bottle igloos.
- Looks like the NYT’s Nicolai Ourosoff doesn’t much like Brad Cloepfil’s redo of the lollipop building: “Poorly detailed and lacking in confidence, the project is a victory only for people who favor the safe and inoffensive and have always been squeamish about the frictions that give this city its vitality.” (More on the architecture here and here.) It sounds like what’s inside the building is the real story.
- Rem Koolhaas and Miuccia Prada are working on a giant death ray.
- A brief history of the last eight years.
- Your moment of the writing is on the wall.
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