Light and Space III, a three-story fluorescent light installation by Robert Irwin, at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. (Photo by diong, via Richard McCoy.)
- Telenovelas, a photographic series. Truly and totally awesome. (Heading East.)
- “Art blogs” is now an entry on Wikipedia. Have at it people!! (Thanks to Sharon Butler for the heads up.)
- The Day in Artistic Lawsuits: Photographer Richard Cariou has sued Larry Gagosian and Richard Prince for the latter’s use of his imagery in his Canal Zone exhibition.
- Shit Storm!! Regina Hackett thinks I’m wrong on the issue of poo in art. Guess we’ll have to agree to disagree. (By the way, I didn’t mean to imply that dogs dump and humans don’t. Dogs are merely a convenient mechanism by which to admire turd production—sometimes in the most creative and surprising ways. And you don’t have to go to a gallery to see it.)
- Harry Shearer on NPR talking about his video installation, Silent Echo Chamber, a piece that compiles the seconds before people go on the air, now on display at the Aldrich Museum in Connecticut.
- The photographs of Gisèle Freund.
- Survey: Most museums have lost 20% of the value of their endowments. Plus: how the richest institutions are handling the flaccid economy.
- London and New York museum previews for 2009.
- The National Portrait Gallery has acquired Shepard Fairey’s original Obama Hope image. Plus: Fairey’s latest work—think constructivism-meets-Barbara Kruger—will decorate the new shopping bags at Saks. (World’s Best Ever.)
- In other celebrity news: Chuck Close shoots Brad Pitt for W.
- Enter the Dragon: Bruce Lee’s Hong Kong townhouse to be turned into a museum.
- As interesting as a corporate press release: That YouTube video by the Met’s new director Thomas Campbell.
- Lego sushi.
- An incredible guerilla campaign by Surfrider and Saatchi & Saatchi in which beach trash is packaged and displayed at farmers’ markets like produce. (NotCot.)
- Today’s Street Art: Level in Brasilia.
- Cities Are Bad For You: “Being in an urban environment…impairs our basic mental processes.” (architecture.mnp.)
- Newsflash: The architectural profession is in the crapper. (architecture.mnp.)
- Olafur Eliasson gets jiggy with a laser cutter.
- And because we’re on the topic of dookies today: A robot toilet paper dispenser. Only €30. (Coudal.)
- Your moment of balance.
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