My dad painted this at some point in the early ’60s — possibly earlier. That’s him admiring the showgirl. Class! (Photo by C-M.)
- Caution! Zombies Ahead! (Tomorrow Museum.)
- My friends and I dream of having a show like this, where we sit around with laptops and beer and talk about weird shit on the Internet. If that doesn’t work out, we’d really like to be judges on Saatchi’s American Idol-meets-the-art-industry TV show. (ackackack.)
- Cocksure: ROFLcon presenter list doesn’t include girls. Plus, the sausagefest at the conference talks about what they love and hate about the Internet (via AFC).
- A life spent instilling terror: Former Condé Nast VP and East German Stasi agent becomes CEO of Phillips de Pury.
- Sotheby’s no longer accepting credit cards. (Art Observed.)
- Brandeis will be shutting down its Rose Art Museum and selling off its 6,000-piece collection. Cue the Greek Chorus: Art Fag City, CultureGrrl, Modern Art Notes (more here), Culture Monster, NYT.
- Budget cuts and hiring freeze at the Smithsonian as new secretary is installed. (Arts Journal.)
- Goya’s Colussus was done by an assistant, reports the Prado.
- Art that engulfs.
- Hydro-Pharmacology – otherwise known as pharmaceutical pollution — brewing what is sure to some incredible superbacteria that will be the end of us all.
- An interview with Ari Folman, director of Waltz with Bashir.
- Pete Rock remix of Johnny Cash’s Folsom Prison Blues.
- Lee Quiñones has launched an official website.
- The Day in Art Merch: The Obey roller ball pen.
- Some vintage video of the Seagram building, with Philip Johnson and Susan Sontag.
- Edward Lifson has some great preview shots of LACMA’s new Renzo Piano-designed building going up in one and two parts.
- A very contemporary church, with one heck of a sweeping roofline, designed by debartolo architects in Arizona.
- Your moment of Weasels Ripped My Flesh.
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