Bar Shrine, by Dan Witz, part of a slideshow on Vandalog. (Image courtesy of Vandalog.)
Update: A rundown on the participants for tomorrow’s Twitter tour of the Whitney Biennial!
- An absolutely stunning/horrific photo essay and interview with the photographer from Cambodia’s notorious Tuol Sleng prison.
- Woot woot! The Is This Art? iPhone app is on Art Daily! Want to submit a one-liner crit for the app? You can do that right here.
- Sorta related: Boxer shorts worthy of encyclopedic collecting by a venerable New York institution. (@TylerGreenDC.)
- #class reviewed in the New York Times. Rawk on.
- For the Geeks: The @ symbol is now part of MoMA’s permanent architecture and design collection.
- Artist Steve McQueen wants to put Britain’s Iraqi war dead on stamps. Images here.
- The latest on the L.A. cultural budget cuts. Not pretty. More here.
- Art21 has a report on gluttony in art. I wish someone woulda called Barbara Ehrenreich to participate in this.
- Speaking of which: Hipsters on food stamps. (Art Fag City.)
- A buncha people are gonna debate the commercial nature of art fairs at the Saatchi Gallery. Is this even debatable?
- Marina Abramovic’s biographer, James Westcott, meditates with his subject. You can find his book here.
- Museums I must visit: the Frog Museum, in Estavayer-de-Lac, Switzerland, and the Hair Museum, in Independence Missouri. Seriously.
- Art suitcases.
- The Subconscious Shelf: The New Yorker will now analyze your books. (Off Center.)
- A visual history of tourism ads. (@slate.)
- Today’s Street Art: High Hopes in Brooklyn.
- Human pillars.
- Usual Suspects: The architectural short list for SFMOMA’s expansion.
- This structure is totally Wicker Man.
- Persian bear skin rug. Would go perfect with mushroom table.
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