Simon Starling at MassMOCA, on display through Oct. 31, 2009. (Photo by Hargo.)
- Ways to be cool.
- The Oscar-nominated short I Met the Walrus. (Thanks, Bucker!)
- Illuminating nature. (Eyebeam reBlog.)
- Painting suburbia: An interview with Sarah McKenzie (whose paintings will be on view at Jen Bekman in NYC through April 4).
- The Day in Museum Cutbacks: The High Museum in Atlanta, the Walters, in Baltimore, and the Henry in Seattle.
- S.F. city officials still want former Gap head’s museum somewhere in the city, even if plans in the Presidio are not approved.
- Museum attendance figures in England. The British Museum, Tate Modern and the National Gallery take spots one through three.
- Gone fishing.
- Better than gummy worms: Sugar boogars.
- A rare, pristine copy of the 1938 Action Comics that launched Superman into the world is coming up for auction.
- Legalizing pot would help California generate more than $1 billion annually. (Coudal.)
- Today’s Graff: Roa in Belgium.
- Shepard Fairey and Mannie Garcia, the AP photographer who took the famous Obama image Fairey borrowed for his iconic poster, to go on NPR’s Fresh Air to talk about the fair-use brouhaha.
- Architectural billings index hits an all-time low.
- Ada Louise Huxtable on brutalism, Boston and New Haven editions. (Arts Journal.)
- A letter from Latin America: Wallpaper has a photo essay on architecture happenings in the lower half of our land mass.
- Monster stamps. (NotCot.)
- Your moment of Star Trek, claymation Italian opera edition. (Sound Taste.)
Inopportune Moments by Cai Guo-Qiang at MassMoCA, in 2005. See other shots here and here. Read about Cai’s current show at the Guggenheim here. (Photos by C-M.)
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Abbé Barthélémy, Jean-Antoine Houdon, 1793-94.
Cue the elevator music: Yahoo is allegedly still trying to figure out what the hell happened to four days worth of C-Monster. (I blame Cheney.) My sorry technological state of affairs, combined with the fact that I’m currently on the road for work, means there will be no Digest today. (In fact, the Digest likely won’t come back until Monday…)
In the meantime, enjoy some pics from the Smith College Museum of Art. The modern and contemporary galleries were closed for re-hanging when I visited, so this photo essay will lean towards the old-school.
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Liquid Origins/Fluid Dreams at the Smith College Museum of Art, aka the men’s bathroom in the museum basement, by Sandy Skoglund.
Who needs the newspaper when you’ve got art? This past weekend, in addition to making a refreshing pilgrimage to the Beer Can Museum, I went to see what was happening at the Smith College Museum of Art. Unfortunately, the modern and contemporary galleries were closed for rejiggering, but I had a great time hanging out in the artist-designed bathrooms in the basement. The men’s and women’s WCs have been done up by artists Sandy Skoglund and Ellen Driscoll, respectively, and look pretty bad-ass.
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In Heaven There is No Beer: A shelf at the Beer Can Museum in Northampton, Mass.
With more than 4,000 vintage beer cans, dating back to 1938, the Beer Can Museum (conveniently situated inside the Ye Old Watering Hole bar) in Northampton, Mass. is a veritable gold mine of brew-can history. Old-school containers of Coors and Bud sit alongside tins of long-defunct labels such as Blitz and Blatz. The best part: there is cheap beer (of a more contemporary, drinkable nature), free pool and a garrulous bartender who’ll show you how he’s doing with his fiddle practice.
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