An audio slideshow of Bill Eppridge’s Woodstock photos can be found at the NYT Lens blog. (Image courtesy of Bill Eppridge.)
- Safety gear for small animals.
- To protect and preserve: An A-Team of art conservation, which travels by van. (@TylerGreenDC)
- Rose Museum Board sues Brandeis. More here and here.
- A fine opportunity for some studio head to step in with a massive donation: LACMA’s film department is moribund. And Kenneth Turan isn’t gonna take it anymore.
- Palm Springs Museum gets a buttload of art.
- Museum Musical Chairs: Elizabeth Smith, chief curator at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, to step down.
- Leonardo-palooza.
- Killing ‘em kindly: The Brainstormers at the Brooklyn Museum.
- Cindy Sherman is very Vogue.
- More exclusive than the Top 200 Art Collectors: The Top Ten Billionaire Art Collectors. (Art Observed.)
- New blogging model? Culture Grrl holds back on the links until you pay up $1.50.
- Diego Rivera’s murals at Mexico City’s Palacio Nacional get a cleaning. (Arts Journal.)
- Rock star.
- My favorite new website: Gals, Gams and Garters.
- The fashion photography of Kurt Iswarienko.
- The Day in Art Merch: Basquiat Reeboks. Goodness. (Art Observed.)
- Slo-mo skating.
- Today’s Graff: A round-up of NYC graffiti. (Thanks, Michele!)
- Shepard Fairey is unavoidable…even in Iranian protest design. Speaking of which: he just appeared on KCRW. (And KCRW’s Jason Bentley actually uses the expression “pinched by the fuzz.”)
- The Bat Spiral: Architecture that thinks about the animal kingdom. Interesting.
- Your moment of Picasso Lawn Gnome.
Buttload of art for Palm Springs! Why do I have a feeling that’s going to be the funniest piece of writing I read all day.