Chuyo (?) in Barranco, Lima. (Photo by C-M.)
On Nicolás de Pierola in downtown. (Photo by C-M.)
Graffiti in el sanjón. (Photo by C-M.)
Slept in. Devoured super sized order of papas a la huancaína. Followed by mongo helping of chirimoya a la huandeña. Have located the most excellent churros. And cooked my brand new power convertor and surge protector on Peruvian electricity. Yay, Lima.
Brooklyn rooftops. Best viewed large.
San Francisco Street Art. (Photo by C-M.)
Photographer Steve Rotman has just released a photo book devoted to all things S.F. (He’s also the author of Bay Area Graffiti.) Among the artists featured in San Francisco Street Art are perennial favorites such as Miss Van, D*Face, Doze Green, Swoon, Neckface, Ron English and Shepard Fairey — as well as some funny pieces by Thesis, Hug and Dome.
Leave a comment below to enter to win this palm-sized hardback. If you’re looking to buy, you can find it here.
Oze, in NYC. (Photo by Becki Fuller.)
Congrats to Brian, from Texas, for winning the dong-arrific Michelangelo shorts!
- Stefan Ruiz: The Dump Lord.
- A new book claims that Van Gogh’s ear was cut off by Gaugin. Bloomberg’s Martin Gayford doesn’t believe a word of it.
- Spring sales at Sotheby’s: Flaccid. Picasso fails to sell. More here, here, and here.
- Fighting over Brooke Astor’s spoils: Philippe de Montebello testifies saying that she’d promised the Met a painting by Childe Hassam. More here.
- Tucson Museum of Art was getting cleaned out by its accountant, who allegedly stole a million dollars over five years.
- Paddy Johnson opines on the Rose Museum situation in the Guardian and Looking Around takes a look at the university’s committee of apparatchiks that is okaying this whole mess.
- At the High Museum: A new Leonardo?
- Modern Art Notes has an interesting piece on naughty painter Kees Van Dongen, an artist who clearly lives up to his surname.
- Speaking of which, no Wednesday is complete without ogling a little Thomas Hart Benton.
- If you live in L.A., David Lynch is coming to a gallery near you.
- Objects, by Martin Parr.
- Oh, yeah! Studio 360 has a piece on Nortec DJs Pepe Mogt and Ramon Amezcua.
- Photo Essay: the last days of Bobby Sands.
- The Day in Garbage Art: A wedding dress made of used underwear.
- The fascinating world of the dung beetle: “a miniature world of sex and violence.” If you’re into this, then pick up the highly readable book Tropical Nature by Adrian Forsyth and Ken Miyata and read the first chapter. You’ll never see poop the same way again. (Hustler of Culture.)
- Skewville on MTV Brasil. Somebody please give Ad Deville his own show.
- Camilo José Vergara’s photo project, Invincible Cities, documenting the built environment of poor, minority communities around the U.S. The photo essay on Richmond, Calif. is incredible for its architecture. (ArchiDose.)
- Spooky schematics for a new Rufino Tamayo Museum in Mexico City shows a giant cross stabbing a mountaintop. Kind of weird considering that the man was a Zapotec Indian obsessed with all things pre-Columbian.
- Cooper Hewitt announces Design Awards winners. The Walker Art Center takes prize for corporate and institutional achievement; SHoP architects take architectural award; and the NYT Graphics department wins communications award. (ArchDaily.)
- Your moment of Europe explained. See it large. (architecture.mnp.)
Kaf in Naples. (Photo by C-M.)
- A coat of many Kermits.
- James Rosenquist loses his studio to a devastating fire. (@artnetdotcom.)
- Guy suing L.A.’s MOCA over Murakami handbag art gets one of his cases tossed out of court.
- An awesome, awesome, awesome photo essay on motels by Magnum photographers.
- El Schnabel seeks renters at Palazzo Chupi — only $40,000 to $50,000 per month. A bargain…if you’re Damien Hirst. (@theartmarket.)
- Con Artist, a new doc about Mark Kostabi.
- Turner Prize nominees announced. And Bloomberg signals this as a return to the “visual” arts. More at the Times of London and the Guardian.
- LACMA picks up a gigantor painting by Roberto Matta. Cool!
- The art industrial average is plunging. Layoffs hit Aperture and the Getty. More here. Plus: Isabella Stewart Gardner museum lays off staff as it pursues a Renzo Piano-designed expansion. (AFC.)
- God told me to give you the finger.
- A list of artsy fartsies on Twitter. I’m one of the fartsies. (@hragv.)
- A belated R.I.P. for Bea Arthur, dirty public reading edition. (Mercy, Mlle. Connasse.)
- Suburban Slovakia. (Coudal.)
- And the award for most creative use of tape in a music video goes to… (Grazie, Least Wanted.)
- I want, I need, I have to have…a cryptozoological play set. Seriously.
- Four arrested during NYC’s billboard takeover this past weekend.
- Today’s Street Art: TitiFreak in Osaka.
- The Day in Graff Merch: Augor spraypaint and Cope2 vinyl skins for your iPod and computer.
- Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unity temple named one of the most endangered places by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. L.A.’s Century Plaza Hotel in Century City also makes the list. See the rest of the list here.
- Your moment of Ocean’s Eleven, Muppet style.
The One N’ Only Chaka, in L.A. (Photo by C-M.)
- In L.A.: Chaka at Mid-City Arts Gallery, opens Saturday. Naturally, there’s video.
- In L.A.: Conor Harrington and Chloe Early at Kinsey/DesForges, through May 30.
- In NYC: The Pig, with Jim Drain, Paul Chan, Jeff Koons and many others, at Deitch, opens Saturday.
- In NYC: Dustin Yellin at Robert Miller, opens today.
- In NYC: The Pictures Generation: 1974-1984 at the Met, through Aug. 2.
- In NYC: Aiko, Love Monster, at Joshua Liner, through May 16.
