Hooray for the Red, White and Blue: All Supply, No Demand by Skewville in NYC. (Photo by shoehorn99.)
- Artist website blocked at art museum due to “adult content.”
- Gap founder gives up plan for a big museum in S.F.’s Presidio.
- Steals and Deals: Bernie Madoff associate Ezra Merkin forced to sell art collection.
- In sort of related news: Dutch arts official vanishes after the discovery that he had embezzled €15.5 million from an arts organization’s accounts. (Arts Journal.)
- The Vatican has announced that it has found what is believed to be a Michelangelo self-portrait. And a U.S. scholar claims to have found a self-portrait by Rembrandt as a 16-year-old. (Arts Journal.)
- Tickets and their machines.
- More reasons why the Saltz-master should have a blog.
- Roast Beef Dinner: A cool Thiebaud in Toledo.
- The Day in Fictional Bankruptcies.
- Ooh ooh, the Deutsche Bank Art Mag story about bloggers is also available in English. And, guess what? We’re “controversial!”
- When architectural installations imitate Tony Cragg.
- The Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African photographs, a searchable database. (Coudal.)
- A previously unpublished view of the Tienanmen “Tank Man.”
- Today’s Street Art: Lister in Sydney.
- Graffiti as proselytizing tool: A Q&A with Jesus Saves.
- For the Typography Geeks: A new font based on Brazilian Pixaçao graffiti.
- The architecture of Michael Jackson’s Neverland compound. Photo essay here.
- Trippy: the glass balcony at the Sears Tower.
- An installation made with hula hoops.
- Your moment of breakdancing Stormtrooper. (Gracias, Celso.)
The first I heard of Pixacao was through Retna. I wouldn’t pay $25.00 for a Pixacao Font, but I’d pay $25.00 for a Retna font.