In the butt, Bob… (Photo by Vidalia.)
- Staggeringly good photo essay on Haiti by photographer Jeff Antebi.
- Marsha Marsha Marsha. I mean Deitch, Deitch, Deitch.
- So where is Eli Broad’s personal museum gonna go? No one knows for sure.
- How to curate rule #8: “It’s good to know art history, but it’s even better to know the right people.”
- Speaking of curators… On Klaus Biesenbach, the high flyer taking over PS 1. In a related story: the Saltz-Beisenbach Facebook drama!! Some days the art industry is so high school. (Art Observed; @powhida.)
- From the Department of Provenance & Fishy Acquisitions: Was the Getty acting in good faith when it purchased Victorious Youth?
- Images of the prophet Muhammad pulled from the Met. (Arts Journal.)
- Nerdy Cool: MoMA using Ed Ruscha’s OOF on it’s 404 error pages.
- Diamonds are Damien Hirst’s best friend.
- Denver artist busted for Tiger Woods-related prank. (Thanks for the tip, @russelltrombone.)
- RIP Dennis Stock. See a slideshow here.
- I want, I need, I have to…fly on the JAL Doraemon Jet.
- A Graffiti Research Lab iPhone graff application. Is it an unspoken law that every GRL video HAS to be accompanied by a moody hip-hop-ish soundtrack?
- Today’s Graff: Anton in Torino.
- Street artist Ellis G has a serious hater.
- Work has begun on the Herzog & De Meuron extension at the Tate in London. (Art Observed.)
- Chicken coops get contemporary.
- Where Rammstein and Cookie Monster instersect.
9!