Skewville in L.A. (Photo by C-M.)
- The remains of the day.
- Me, me, me!…on the subject of street art in museums in ArtNews!
- McGuggenpalooza: A profile of the museum’s new director Richard Armstrong, in which board president Jennifer Stockman says that the Guggenheim Foundation is not currently planning on investing in a GuggenVilnius, nor are they looking to subsidize an expansion of the Bilbao branch into a nature preserve outside the city. Plus: Armstrong’s predecessor, the Krens-Master, allegedly overpaid for works in the museum’s Bilbao collection.
- “Pinocchio, Mendacious Boy Puppet, Plunges to Death at Museum.” More here.
- Financial trouble: bad for the art industry, good for art. Even Murakami says so.
- Earth works in the Western United States under threat.
- 1,000 artworks to see before you die, according to the Guardian.
- The sublime point where art and politics intersect: Donald Rumsfeld’s official portrait for the Pentagon is costing the public purse $46,000. And it wasn’t even painted by Julian Schnabel. (Thank you, dentist_tx.)
- L.A. artists are starting to get their due.
- The pop surrealism set to get its own fair during Basel in Miami.
- Andy Goldsworthy’s Presidio Spire in San Francisco. Kinda reminds me of the Texas A&M bonfire stack.
- The Seattle Art Museum is renting out its halls to purveyors of booze. (MAN.)
- Biology knitting.
- The Idea Conference: bursting with sausage.
- Speaking of sausage…American concept cars of the ‘50s and ‘60s. (NotCot.)
- Today’s Graff, On Fire Edition: Elfo in Italy.
- World’s Best Ever has a round-up on how “urban” art is faring at the auction houses.
- London city council votes to remove Banksy mural.
- The Vietnam Graffiti Project.
- Princess Zaha is designing shoes for Lacoste (Unbeige). Related: the architectural parallels between Hadid and Mike Brady. With lots of photos from inside Princess Zaha’s giant clam (Hrag).
- Sedimentary architecture: the Lavezzorio Community Center by Studio Gang in Chicago.
- Microterritoriality: Our islands of familiarity. On a related note: the parallel maps of Jorge Luis Borges and Lewis Carroll.
- Swinging Some Pipe: The Estonian pavilion at the Venice architecture biennale.
- Your moment of Obama/McCain dance-off. (Courtesy of San Suzie.)
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