Detail from Self-portrait in Straw Hat, 1887, by Vincent Van Gogh at the Met. (Photo by C-M.)
- Taryn Simon’s images of the hidden and the unfamiliar.
- Buy yourself a few pixels — and a link — on the Rhizome home page.
- Restorers may have wiped away important details from rare William Shakespeare portrait. (Arts Journal.)
- Picasso’s Guernica tapestry to go on exhibit at London’s Whitechapel Gallery this Sunday.
- Hirshhorn closing galleries due to a security staff shortage.
- Helen Levitt, R.I.P. More here and here.
- Trippy Marcel Dzama/Patrick Daughters-directed video.
- A collection of NYC club flyers from the ‘80s.
- Wood paneling gone seriously cool.
- Today’s street art: Escif in Valencia, Spain.
- Lots of photos from Tag, the graffiti show at the Grand Palais in Paris. (What You Write.)
- A house you can skate. (World’s Best Ever.)
- The Bauhaus opens its student quarters as a “boutique youth hostel.” (architecture.mnp.)
- A highly interesting video about the architecture of the Alhambra. (architecture.mnp.)
- The Metla Timber Building by SARC architects. Oh so woody. (Coudal.)
- The architecture of the drug trade (as in grow houses). (architecture.mnp.)
- 100 abandoned houses. (Coudal.)
- Take the are-you-a-sexist-architect architecture quiz. (architecture.mnp.)
More skateboarding architecture
Italian practice studiometrico has converted an old cinema in Milan into a new flagship clothing store featuring a suspended skateboarding bowl.
http://www.arplus.com/2609/bastard-store-milan-by-studiometrico/