Detail of Abuela, 2006, oil on cedar, by Eugenia Martínez. (Image courtesy of Eugenia Martínez.)
- I want, I need, I have to have…a hammer and sickle armchair.
- Another threat to Spiral Jetty? (Modern Art Notes.)
- A housewife kicks off Antony Gormely’s Fourth Plinth project in London and is visited by a protestor. (The oh-so-intriguing video feed of the project.)
- 800 pages from the world’s oldest bible (written in Greek) are put on display at the British library. You can see it here.
- Report finds abundance of fake Russian paintings.
- OCMA still in hot water for selling paintings under the table.
- Of centerfolds and dildoes.
- Photo Essay: Sex and New York City.
- All the economic news that’s fit to paint — in one and two parts.
- The Arbitrary Art Grant – dance category.
- Here is Where…
- The art monkey visits the Brooklyn Museum.
- Clementine with child.
- Awesome fireworks.
- Photo Essay: Indian movie posters.
- Some sweet shots by Tod Seelie of Swoon’s floating junkpile making its way through the canals of Venice at night.
- Today’s Street Art: Diego Miedo in Naples, Italy. More here.
- Blade Runner-style solutions to halt climate warming: “It’s scary because it actually could be done,” he says. “And it’s like taking aspirin for cancer.” (ackackack.)
- Saarinen chairs for the ankle-biters and rugrats.
- Your moment of time suck. (AFC.)
What if Robert Smithson’s notion of entropy allowed for such actions to happen? What if the real question regarding his land art wasn’t how to save it but whether or not it should be saved at all?