BLAH BLAH Radio, 2008, by Ad Deville of Skewville, at Thinkspace, in L.A., opening Friday. (Photo courtesy of Factory Fresh.)
- Me, me, me…blogging at Art21 on 10 ways to die of electric shock.
- Op-Ed: “Where’s a bailout for the arts?”
- The Day in Douch-y-ness: Damien Hirst won’t let the BBC film his work at the publicly-funded British Museum because the director of the program in question has been known to be critical of contemporary art. (Art Observed.)
- “The art market is often described as the last unregulated financial market in the world. It has remained stubbornly resistant to almost all efforts to bring transparency to its operations, which still mainly function on the basis of highly personal relations and often secretive transactions.” (Arts Journal.)
- Vintage signs in Pittsburgh.
- Alana Heiss has retired as director of P.S. 1 in NYC and the NYT reviews her last show. Plus: WNYC interviews New York Mag writer Andrew Goldstein about her departure. (Hrag Vartanian.)
- LACMA has been clothes shopping.
- Love this idea: Do a museum show that charts a museum’s acquisitions against the Dow.
- Subway tunnel art. (What You Write.)
- Obessive Consumption: A drawn blog of daily purchases.
- The Doc Marten corset. (NotCot.)
- Today’s Graff: Nekst and Skrew in Philadelphia.
- Super duper huge in São Paulo: A mural by Os Gemeos, Nina, Nunca, Vitché and Herbert Baglione. (Ekosystem.)
- “God Bless Greenspan, Patron Saint of Pool Skatin’”: With home foreclosures on the rise, shredding empty backyard pools is once again big. (architecture.mnp.)
- Cool supermarkets. (Eyebeam.)
- The most phallic building in the world.
- Oh Yes Yes Yes: Frank Gehry crêpes.
- L.A. Noir: The city’s modernist architecture always plays the villain.
- Make Magazine is debuting a TV show. (Eyebeam.)
- Your moment of team photos. (Thanks, Vidalia, for turning me on to this site.)
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