A mural by WERC and CROL, part of the La Entrada project in San Diego. (Image courtesy of La Entrada.)
- Vintage TV test cards. (ackackack.)
- MoMA’s subway ads get remixed by Poster Boy.
- Schnabel While You Eat: The pajama’d one has reportedly designed a dining room for Old Homestead Steakhouse in NYC. (Art Observed.)
- Assume Vivid Astro Focus collages the cover of the NYT Style Magazine.
- Arctic Circle. (Coudal.)
- The 25 Most Valuable Blogs. (ackackack.)
- Oh-so-cheesy.
- Candy Darling archive goes to Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.
- The Day in Economic Suckage: Philly Museum and Detroit Institute of Arts make some bloody cuts. Plus: two Denver museums to merge. (Arts Journal.)
- I want, I need, I have to have…a $28 million arm chair: Yves Saint Laurent auction continues to set records. Art Observed has the comprehensive link dump.
- Own a Francis Bacon rug.
- Remember the salad days of 2008 when Banksy’s doodles used to fetch a quarter million pounds at auction? No longer. (World’s Best Ever.)
- Today’s Graff: David de la Mano in Spain.
- A trailer for Stacy Peralta’s Made in America, a doc about the history of L.A.’s Crips and Bloods — along with a list of preview screenings in various U.S. cities.
- SANAA, designers of the New Museum, to build the summer pavilion at London’s Serpentine Gallery.
- Green architecture for low-income families. (architecture.mnp.)
- Jonathan Jones of the Guardian selects his favorite album covers.
- Your moment of skateboarding dog.
Dang. I wanted one of those Francis Bacon rugs, but I thought it would be a museum merch copy of “Study after Velázquez’s portrait of Innocent X.”