Brooklyn wall, with Celso, Cake and Chris Stain.
- An awesome Q&A with Gay Talese in the Paris Review. (@jennydeluxe.)
- Brush fire forces an evacuation at the Getty, which is scheduled to reopen today.
- China censors Ai Weiwei.
- Hrag Vartanian breaks down the numbers on arts stimulus funding, a lot of which goes to prop-up infrastructure at non-profits. Plus: he speaks with Reps. Louise Slaughter and Todd Russell Platt, of the House Arts Caucus, about the state of arts funding.
- L.A. Times questions “sketchy” OCMA sale in editorial.
- Van Gogh’s private letters to be exhibited at the Royal Academy in London early next year.
- Roman mosaic floor unveiled in Lod, Israel. (Arts Journal.)
- Opposition group to Christo project calles itself “Rags Over the Arkansas River.”
- Strangely fascinating: Blasting office chairs into space.
- More on plastics falling apart: Joseph Beuys’s pieces at the Walker Art Center are gettin’ drip-drip-drippy. (Eyeteeth.)
- Regina Hacket drops the atomic elbow on the TM Sisters.
- Free Jerry Saltz! (AFC.)
- The globalization of art. (To Fear It is To Know It.)
- Homecoming, photographs of vets.
- Boston’s Big Picture covers the clashes between Han Chinese and Uighurs in Urumqi, China. (Coudal.)
- Frida Kahlo’s lipstick traces.
- Foreclosure art.
- Rad Photo Essay: Buildings without walls.
- The rejected Wallpaper covers.
- Your moment of Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. What? Related: the Pizza Cone.
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