New Cornucupia and the Big IOU, a temporary installation by John Salvest at the Penn Valley/Memorial Hill Park in Kansas City, Mo. Goes on view this Friday, through October 16. (Image courtesy of Grand Arts.)
- In advance of their retrospective at LACMA, Asco gets profiled in the New York Times. Which brings me to the following thought: If some New York City museum doesn’t pick up this show when it travels, I’m moving.
- Which also brings me to: This is a fine time to pimp the story on Chicano art I wrote for ARTnews last year. Featuring lots of Asco.
- Statements I wholeheartedly agree with: “It may be time for a moratorium on Cindy Sherman’s admittedly great and influential but overexposed film stills; they have become a reflexive curatorial tic.”
- One of the more insightful critiques of the Ryan Trecartin exhibit at PS1, by Ben Davis at ArtInfo.
- It’s baaaaaack. #workoFart, that is.
- Sotheby’s art handlers are on strike.
- In Long Beach, Calif, you can be detained for taking pictures of no aesthetic value. Apparently, taking notes and asking about opening hours could also generate a “Suspicious Activity Report.” Travel writers had better watch out. (Virtual “A” List.)
- Tom Bissell profiles the actress behind the female voice of Commander Shepard from the video game Mass Effect 3. Listen to audio here — it’s worth it. (Subscription required for the story, but not the audio.)
- The brain and decision fatigue. Which brings to mind Sheena Iyengar’s terrific TED talk on choice.
- The urban planning behind Burning Man.
- Japanese graphic design from the 20s and 30s.
- A segment by Studio 360 covers Libyan culture and the revolution. Worth it for the hip-hop tracks.
Merci, for the link to the Japanese graphic design from the 20s and 30s…some wonderful stuff there!
That piece about the photographer arrest in Long Beach is just infuriating. “Apparent aesthetic value” as determined by the police?? WTF???