Tara Donovan at Lever House. (Photo by Kurt Strahm.)
- A temple of trash.
- Courtney Love’s Tumblr. (Animal New York.)
- Larry Gagosian said to be plotting Paris space.
- Murakami to do Versailles in 2010.
- ¡Art World Smackdown! AFC versus Christopher Knight on the subject of Frida Kahlo’s alleged archive. Let’s get ready to ruuuuummmmble.
- Artists in Iran not allowed to ship out works painted green. (Modern Art Notes.)
- A little cleaning reveals a Velazquez.
- Texas death row inmate appears on Anthony Gormley’s Fourth Plinth in London – as a cardboard cut-out.
- This is gonna be hilarious if London gets hit by a blackout. (Woulda been so much cooler if he’d made an ice swan instead.)
- For you New York artsy types: ArtCat now has a convenient mobile art calendar.
- The Katonah Museum of Art is organizing an art trip to Havana.
- Guerilla Girls and Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries to speak at LACMA on Monday. Many more weekend goings-on in L.A. can be found here.
- So totally weird, in the most stonerrific way: a disused railway tunnel reborn as mushroom farm.
- Japanese Sonosheet cover art. (The Ultraman back cover is my fave.)
- Time travel posters. (ackackack.)
- “The Amazonian Chernobyl.”
- Today’s Street Art: FRG in Brazil.
- NYC’s urbanSHED competition is looking for architects who will come up with pedestrian-friendly scaffolding.
- Jean Nouvel’s New York tower got circumcised. And Nicolai Ourossoff thinks it’s a cryin’ shame.
- Your moment of Three Six Mafia meets Alice in Wonderland. (@BardotBardot.)
Regarding Quinn’s new blood head. I’m pretty sure an earlier version was lost when someone unplugged its freezer.