Explosion, Black and Yellow, 2009, by Joy Garnett, which is making an appearance in the August issue of Canteen. (Image courtesy of Joy Garnett and the Edward Winkleman Gallery.)
- Great moments in product placement poetry.
- Losing track of our environmental misdeeds. Fascinating. And scary.
- “When they are lying, bosses avoid the word ‘I’, opting instead for the third person.” (Mark Coatney.)
- Archaeologists wary of BP’s drilling plans in the Mediterranean.
- I love it when public art becomes unintentionally interactive. (Arts Journal.)
- I wrote a story on Chicano artists for ARTnews. And it got Tweeted by Cheech. I am complete.
- Andrew Russeth helpfully extracts the juicy quotes from the book Talking Prices, in which artists and dealers (some anonymously) talk honestly about the market. Bound to leave you queasy.
- The Next Logical Step: Takashi Murakami to do the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade.
- Peeing performance artist Ann Liv Young welcomed back to PS1 for number two. Actually, it was just for a talk. Speaking of which, the New York Times gives her latest show a spectacularly scathing review: after describing it as startlingly inept, the critic writes, “This reached a nadir when Ms. Young, some 85 minutes into the show, failed to defecate on cue, despite having given an advance interview advertising her ability to do so.” I don’t think the Times has been this saucy since La Smith shredded Shepard Fairey. (Art Fag City.)
- Mogul Carlos Slim set to open a Mexico City museum to showcase his Rodins. (Arts Journal.)
- Tierra y Pan.
- Highly interesting story by the NYT’s David Itzkoff on the unsettled life and death of Harvey Pekar.
- How social is it? Ben Davis picks apart art and social media.
- Andrea Zittel’s single egg incubator. (Dear Greg: Get. It.)
- Vietnam Memorial, sweatpants edition. Sometimes flippant irony makes my teeth hurt.
- Street Art, with fur. (@bpiana.)
- Architect Greg Lynn wants your toys.
- La Zaha to design her first project in her native Iraq. (Arts Journal.)
- Love this: Oikos Project’s Jellyfish Theatre, made entirely out of recycled and reclaimed materials. Love this very Gehry portion. Plus, a view of the interiors.
- Frank Lloyd Wright-designed textile block homes in L.A. not finding buyers.
- You too can live in your very own Nazi watch tower.
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