Der Neuling, 2009 by Stefanie Gutheil at Mike Weiss Gallery, on display until Feb. 20. (Image courtesy of Mike Weiss; via MW Capacity.)
- The Illegal Border Crossing Park. Incredible piece. (Toxico Cultura.)
- The Art Industrial Average is moribund: Met Museum endowment is down. (More on that here.) As for the NEA: when the going gets tough, they redesign the logo.
- On the other hand, it seems like the Picasso market is strong. (@hrag.)
- NYT says I-don’t-think-so to Tino Sehgal no-photo policy.
- Christian Viveros-Faune is seriously digging the California minimalism show at Zwirner. If you live in NYC, definitely go see it. (Modern Art Notes.)
- Late addition: Thousands of Warhol snaps donated to dozens of small museums and galleries around the U.S. (@russelltrombone.)
- Register for the Art Handling Olympics. Personally, I’d love to see Bruno from Dancing With the Stars on the panel critiquing form.
- Vote on the Worst Press Release Ever.
- In search of Macondo: A staggeringly-good photo essay on the Colombian town of Sucre. (Thanks, Bill, for the tip.)
- Win a stay at Norman Mailer’s house. (If you’re British.)
- Moving the Magnum archive: a photo essay pays tribute. (Gracias, Big Papi G.)
- The photo agencies are gonna love this one: PILFERED, a magazine by and for copyright thieves.
- The Seattle Art Museum is doing a Richard Pryor film series.
- Today’s Graff: Eko in Pau.
- A Paul Rudolph-designed elementary school in Middletown, NY could be demolished.
- A copper house.
- Downhill skating. Let’s ride some gravity.
I’m really, really tempted to put together a LA-based art handling supergroup and fly out to NYC to go East Coast/West Coast on those soft mofos in the Big Apple.
hell yeah… do it!!!
Thanks for posting our page about the threat to Paul Rudolph’s John Chorley Elementary School in Middletown, NY. We’ve begun a petition to save the building which can be found here:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/save-paul-rudolphs-john-chorley-elementary
Thanks again for posting this and let’s save this building!