- Because my brain seems to be operating in a NyQuil dimension: yesterday I missed the fact that it was World AIDS Day/A Day Without Art. But I figure, better late than never. So, no art in the Digest today.
- Me! Me! Me!…on the subject of L.A.’s new architecture deans in Fast Company.
- Oh, yes! Monty Python now has its own YouTube channel! (Eyeteeth.)
- Cinema-inspired artist Mark Leckey wins Turner Prize. (And Adrian Searle doesn’t like it.) Video here. I have to be honest: Finding out the winner of the Turner Prize is kinda like finding out who Deep Throat was. Interesting for a second. But then I go right back to my Cheetos.
- Related: Leckey is no fan of the YBAs. (Arts Journal.)
- Carole Feuerman’s sculpture, Survival of Serena, is destroyed en route to Miami for Art Miami. Some grim photos accompany the story.
- Photographing the part of Miami’s Wynwood District that outsiders rarely see: the locals.
- Women artists earn less than men. (Culture Monster.)
- The Art Industrial Average continues its southerly plunge: Works by Degas and Renoir fail to sell at Paris auction (AJ). Related: Prospects for Art Basel Miami Beach, grim.
- Speaking of which: we are in the middle of a sexual recession. (Thanks, Big Papi!)
- We Make Money Not Art reports on the São Paulo Biennial, which apparently is deficient in art. But check out those pink women’s bathrooms. Sublime.
- Gallery talk: Mary Boone and Edward Winkleman talk about the gallery trade in separate interviews. (Set aside some time for these, they’re both quite long, but worthwhile. If you’re an artist trying to break into a gallery, Winkleman’s interview provides some solid advice.)
- Nara’s giant dog and the world’s oldest LOL cat. (Coudal.)
- Stop signs, remixed.
- Kick ass!! Decorated trains in Japan. I love the Doraemon ones.
- Today’s Street Art: Elbow Toe in NYC.
- A Q&A with Evan Roth of Graffiti Research Lab. His greatest ambition? To have Kanye West post on his blog.
- Not sure what to make of this one: Libeskind’s new condo plan for NYC will include a mid-building cut-out for gardens. I wonder what those gardens will look like in January. Nothing like the rendering, I’m sure…
- Love how Japanese architects do so much with so little: The C1 House.
- Own a piece of NYC’s Storefront of Art & Architecture. (Hrag Vartanian.)
- Sounds like a short story: The man who lived in a crane.
- Your moment of Big Mac in one bite.
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