In Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, on Costa Rica’s southern Caribbean coast. (Photo by C-M.)
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Since I’m on a dog kick…another mutt. (Photo by C-M.)
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Drunk Mickey in Bilbao. (Photo by Fragil.)
Update: And congrats to Chris Albert for winning the great C-Mon cheese giveaway!
- Cave painting, New York style.
- Lehman Bros. is having an art garage sale! (Grazie, WALR.)
- The Whitney moves ahead on a High Line museum.
- New Leonardo portrait may have been discovered. The giveaway? A fingerprint. (IIC.)
- Interesting fact: France is the biggest McDonald’s market in the world outside of the U.S.
- Speaking of which: the Louvre new director is trying to loosen the place up. (With McFlurries?)
- Miami dealers busy as bees for the impending Basel Frazzle.
- Kandinsky, visual rhyme.
- Slide show: the Gagosian store.
- A pop-up art shop in Istanbul.
- The collapse of New York’s real estate market: good for artists.
- Mitch Epstein, capturing the American thirst for energy. And getting detained in the process.
- NYPD allegedly refers to hipsters as “marshmallows” because they’re white and soft. (World’s Best Ever.)
- Luscious color: The photographs of Anthony Earl Smith.
- I want, I need, I have to have…a Cremaster sweatshirt.
- Today’s Graff: 3ttman in Mallorca, Spain.
- The Harvey Pekar webcombic. (Hustler of Culture.)
- A building that looks like a bar code.
- Your moment of the Daily Show on CNN’s coverage of the health care debate. A spectacular dismemberment. [For some reason, the permalink on this has an error in it, so it's not working. (Thanks, Viacom.) I'm linking to the main site. It's the first video up this morning, called CNN Leaves It There.]
Art takeover: Klone and Know Hope appropriate a ruined building in Tel Aviv. (Images courtesy of Kindred Times.)
Earlier this month, an enterprising group of artists in Tel Aviv – Klone, Know Hope, Foma <3 and Zero Cents – appropriated a derelict building in Tel Aviv and redecorated it. When they were finished, they hosted an opening for their exhibit, titled Kindred Times and Future Goodbyes. Didn’t make it? Neither did we. Thankfully, the artists were kind enough to send us some very lovely pictures from the event. Enjoy.
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A life-size image of a NY storefront by Jim and Karla Murray was defaced by various New York City artists for the show MOM & POPism, paying tribute to the couple’s book Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York. (Image courtesy of Jim and Karla.)
- In NYC: MOM and POPism at 210 Elizabeth in SoHo, this Saturday at noon.
- In NYC: Brooklyn Bailout Burlesque at Factory Fresh, opens Friday.
- In NYC: Jon Burgerman at Giant Robot, opens Saturday.
- In NYC: Paula Hayes, Excerpts from the Story of the Planet Thear, at Marianne Boesky through Friday.
- In NYC: The Triply Canopy and Gowanus Studio Space Film Society present Composite Beings, a night of expanded cinema, on Monday starting at 8pm.
- In Springfield, Ore.: Face It You’re Hippies, a happening with Patrick Rock, opens Saturday.
- In S.F.: Sensate: Bodies and Design at SFMOMA, through Nov. 8.
- In L.A.: Deep End, Jen Denike, Carlton DeWoody, Alexa Gerrity and many others at The Company in Chinatown, opens Saturday.
Graffiti feet in Rome. (Photo by Celso.)
Congrats to the I-Man for winning the C-Mon Giveaway Extravaganza, Dudamel edition.
- New Scientist reports on the 10 things we don’t understand about humans. Number 7: Art. (What a Lovely Recession.)
- The Museum Bubble. (@KnightLAT.)
- Sorta related: The best paid museum directors.
- LACMA’s film program seems to be making a comeback.
- New Rembrandt.
- James Frey’s Public Stoning — as painted by Ed Ruscha. (Modern Art Notes.)
- A round-up of stonerrific things: Evel Knievel, books as art, wood shingles gone crazy.
- Reading the Clinton/Kim Jong Il photo. (Arts Journal.)
- That bizarre point where installation art and zoos intersect. (Travelers Diagram.)
- A show called Don’t Panic, I am Selling My Collection.
- Child beauty pageants.
- Art and food.
- Plus: What a famous hipster-artist diet looks like. Perfect for a new drinking game I like to call “Drink every time a celebrity’s name is dropped.”
- El Celso is looking for art. To burn. Send your submission today!
- MUST READ: Is it a crime to be poor?
- Today’s Street Art: Blu in Belgrade.
- Book store porn.
- Awesome essay in Chicago Trib on what is happening to Millennium Park’s fancy architectural pavilions at the hands of the crowds.
- A floating apartment complex.
- Your moment of orangutan. (@kenwheaton.)
By David Lyle, at Lyons Wier in NYC, through Friday. (Photo by C-M.)
Mundano’s painted recycling carts. (Photos by C-M.)
Paintings that spin, Brazilian street carts laden with scraps and drippy canvases that document São Paulo’s organically-expanding cityscape. That’s what’s currently on show at Factory Fresh in the intriguing group exhibit Lichen, which is showing the work of artists Apolo Torres, Loro Verz and Mundano, all of whom hail from São Paulo. Especially interesting: Torres’s urban landscapes, which celebrate a city in permanent contact with calamity.
Lichen is up through July 26.
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Coextensia, by Apolo Torres. (Image courtesy of Factory Fresh.)
- In NYC: Lichen, Loro Verz, Apolo Torres & Mundano, straight from São Paulo at Factory Fresh, opens this Friday at 7pm.
- In NYC: Slavic Soul Party!, as part of Summer Nights at the Jewish Museum, next Thursday July 16th, at 7:30 p.m.
- In Beacon: We Are Familia, a salon, at Open Space in Beacon, opens this Saturday.
- In Miami: Balls in the Air at Locust Projects, be part of an interactive performance, this Saturday at 7:00pm.
- In Omaha: A Century of Retablos at the Joslyn Art Museum, through Oct. 4. (Art Newspaper.)
- In Austin: 60WRD/MIN ART CRITIC, a performance by Lori Waxman in which she receives artists and writes reviews of their work — and then signs, publishes and frames them; at the ArtHouse at Jones Center, from Friday through Sunday. (Why didn’t I think of this?)
- In Vancouver: Andreas Gursky at the Vancouver Art Gallery, through Sept. 20. (eyecurious.)
- In S.F.: Becca, Mike Maxwell & Paul Chatem at White Walls, opens Saturday.
- In L.A.: The West Coast premiere of Captured: 30 Years of the Lower East Side of New York tonight at ALIFE at 7:00pm.
- In L.A.: The Buff Monster Summer Party at Japan LA tonight at 7pm.
- In L.A.: Family Books and Aaron Rose present Three films about Sister Corita at CineFamily, this Sunday at 8pm.
- In L.A.: An exhibit and book signing for Jim and Karla Murray’s Miami Graffiti at Mid-City Arts, opens Saturday at 7 p.m.
- In L.A.: Urban Myth, with Pure Evil, Zeus and many others, at Cerasoli Gallery, opens Saturday.
- In L.A.: A Public Art Party, with lots of Yayoi Kusama, in Beverly Hills, this Saturday at noon. With box lunch by Porta Via.
- In Santa Ana, Calif.: R. Crumb at the GCAC Gallery, opens Saturday.
Tita3 in Peru. (Photo by enteserhumano.)
Support Jörg Colberg’s contemporary photo blog Conscientious!!
- The Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies. (ackackack.)
- ArtNews’s Top 200 Collectors.
- Dang, do I love me some lawsuit: Brooklyn’s River Café suing over salt water damage suffered from Olafur Eliasson’s waterfalls. (@kenwheaton.)
- The Art Industrial Average Continues Its Downward Slide: The market sinks at London auctions.
- After all the brouhaha about wanting it back, the Euphronios krater isn’t exactly attracting awe-struck crowds in Italy.
- One word: Plastics. They don’t live as long as we thought they did. (Arts Journal.)
- Sarah Jessica Parker talks to ArtNet for “literally three minutes” about her new art reality show. (Animal.)
- The Guardian crowdsources coverage of Gormley’s Fourth Plinth project. Plus: Rupert Christiansen at the Telegraph reports that the installation has already become a bore. (Best of 3.)
- Speaking of crowds: LACMA is dealing with Michael Jackson mourners intent on getting as close as they can to Koons’ sculpture of Jackson with Bubbles.
- The week in art world conflict: Philip Smith was left out of the Met’s Pictures Generation show and the Saltz-Master isn’t gonna take it anymore. Plus: Greg.org takes on the wall text.
- Photographs of Cuba by Ernesto Bazan.
- In other news: Alberto Gonzales finally found a job.
- Today’s Street Art: Amose in Tokyo.
- In time for Christmas? Zaha Hadid’s Chicago pavilion – which was supposed to open in June – still not open.
- Design schemes for NOLA homes from Brad Pitt’s architectural foundation.
- Frank Lloyd Wright’s various designs for the Guggenheim.
- Priceless: An open letter to Dwell Magazine.
- Your moment of Have You Heard of Hip-Hop?
