Archive for the 'Drawing' Category

Hyena, by Ping Zhu. (Image courtesy of Ping Zhu.)

• Werner Herzog as a plastic bag. (Kottke.)
• Speaking of bags, Morrissey would like to keep Damien Hirst’s head inside of one.
• Truthout.org needs your help.
• Craziest Video Ever: Kool-Aid Man in Second Life. (Don’t miss the part where he goes to the sex club. You’ll never be the same again.)
• Museum I gotta get to: The Museum of Menstruation and Women’s Health. Am fascinated by this delightfully sinister menstrual propaganda from the ’40s. Bet @museumnerd hasn’t covered that one. Yet.
• Word on the street is that L.A. MoCA could kick off the Deitch regime with a Dennis Hopper show. Not Edward. Dennis.
• The New Museum’s Richard Flood equated bloggers with “prairie dogs” and that “truth means nothing to them” during a speech at the Portland Art Museum, according to a report by Lisa Radon on Hyperallergic.  He also said he just learned about blogs a few months ago, “the internet is still a ghetto” and that Jerry Saltz’s Facebook page is “frightening.” All this from a guy who is curator at an institution whose clearly-stated mission on its website and on its 990 tax forms is:  “New Art, New Ideas.”
• In light of this…Let’s Dump on Skin Fruit Day: Christian Viveros-Faune says, “The wrong show for our times in just about every possible way.” And even the usually relentlessly-positive Saltz-master opines, “this much beloved yet deeply frustrating institution has crossed some invisible line, its already-thin credibility stretched to the breaking point.”
• John Perrault has been testing out the Is This Art? iPhone app.
• Slideshow: Painting, not dead yet, writes Roberta Smith.
• California, through the eyes of Henry Wessel.
• Lady Painters Round-Up: Awesome video bit with Susan Rothenberg (about painting a dog she’d had to put down) and Ida Applebroog (talking vagina).
• Tino Sehgal Flashback: What is progress? “An angel being blown back through time.” Good answer. (The kids interviewed for this segment are awesome.)
• Art on the pooper: The White Cube Toilet Gallery. (@ARTnewsmag.)
• The Day in Art Merch: Andy Warhol Ferragamos. Effing hilarious.
• RIP Jim Marshall, rock photographer. See a NYT slideshow here.
• Woot woot! Thanks, Flavorpill, for the props.
• Shepard Fairey is asking for permission.
• Today’s Street Art: The Gualicho car, in Argentina.
• SANAA, designers of the New Museum, take the Pritzker. See additional coverage at Cityscapes, NPR, Fast Company, and NY Times. Plus: Cityscapes on how to win the Pritzker: practice, practice, practice.
• The High Line, before and after.
• Stair Porn. (Thank you, Howie.)
• Orson Welles reads Moby Dick.