Detail from Susanna and the Elders, 1938, by Thomas Hart Benton at the de Young Museum in S.F. (Photo by C-M.)
- Post modern. Even more post-modern.
- The Top 10 most visited museums. Louvre #1.
- The Getty’s hipster ad campaign.
- How to imitate a MoMA museum guard. Related: Top 10 questions for art museum guards. (Art Fag City.)
- An exposé on the Met called Rogues Gallery has the museum’s trustees sweating it out.
- Cuba is having its first show of American art in 25 years. (Arts Journal.)
- Desperate times call for ridiculous measures: A round-up on the guy in Florida who is suing Christie’s because his Francis Bacon didn’t sell.
- Knit lamps. (reBlog.)
- Our oceans are turning into “plastic soup.” (reBlog.)
- German officials buff famous Berlin Wall painting of Brezhnev and Honecker kissing. (Arts Journal.)
- Artist Yale Wolf honors NYC graffiti history with mock plaque and subway posters.
- L.A.’s Chaka to have his first gallery show.
- Cambodian graffiti.
- MBW redoes an Ericailcane wall in L.A. with clip art. (@lunapark.)
- Molotow now selling energy drinks.
- A.J. Fosik’s beer sweater collection.
- Miami Beach trying to cut back on Frank Gehry’s New World Symphony project to save some cash.
- Nicolai Ourosoff on rethinking the American city: “The problem in America is not a lack of ideas. It is a tendency to equate any large-scale government construction project, no matter how thoughtful, with the most brutal urban renewal tactics of the 1950s.”
- Google Street View time lapse.
- Your moment of Andy Warhol meets Rick Ocasek.
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