Truck at Devil’s Dyke, East Sussex, by Andrew Newson. (Image courtesy of Newson.)
- A theory of everything.
- Wonder what that underwater gusher in the Gulf of Mexico looks like? Wonder no more. Plus: What it looks like from overhead. And: Boston’s Big Picture does a definitive photo essay on the mess.
- In a related story: Photographer Bill Eppridge, who covered the clean-up after the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska, sends an open letter to Sen. Lisa Murkowski about oil company liability.
- Emily Dickinson, a recluse who did social networking with letters.
- What a museum director looks for in a board member: “capacity.” Otherwise known as $$$. (Arts Journal.)
- New York cultural organizations sweating Bloomberg’s latest proposed budget. It ain’t pretty.
- A schedule of free and reduced admission museum hours at New York museums. Handy. (Gracias, @russelltrombone.)
- That glass-smashing piece in Brooklyn? Rafael Rozendaal did something highly similar at Spencer Brownstone Gallery, back in February.
- Art by interned Japanese Americans at the Smithsonian in D.C. The Senninbari vest is incredible.
- R.I.P. Craig Kauffman, plastics sculptor.
- Photo Essay: Philip Toledano, Days With My Father. I never get tired of this series.
- Hungarian woodcuts from the 1920s by Gyula Derkovits. Very cool.
- Today’s Street Art: Nuria gets abstract in Johannesburg.
- A Banksy gets moved in Detroit for better safekeeping. I have to say that I find the idea of “preserving” graffiti patently hilarious. Plus: It’s official. Banksys are now a tourist attraction.
- Momo, home décor edition.
- A miniaturized floating housing development.
- Favela painting. Looks cool, but the ethics of redecorating the exterior of a slum are somewhat fraught.
- Dirty Dancing, if it’d been directed by David Lynch. (World’s Best Ever.)
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