Sqon in Barcelona. (Photo by C-M.)
- The Top 10 Stinkiest Cheeses. (Via Coudal.)
- FOUND, in some dead guy’s apartment: 137 works of fuzzy provenance. The FBI is trying to track down the rightful owners of the pieces, which includes a Giacometti and Picassos. More here.
- The Day in Timely Justice: Trial begins in Boston over $30 million Cezanne stolen in 1978.
- The continued merchification of art: Beijing real estate developer edition.
- Nollywood.
- Monster sculpture.
- Third Space: An installation made of 1.3 million cable ties. (Via NotCot.)
- Superficial by Michael de Broin.
- Turning a gallery into a three-dimensional graph. (Via NotCot.)
- Modern Art Notes has more on the University of Iowa’s conflict-of-interest-ridden idea to sell off a Pollock for cash in one and two parts.
- S.F.’s Presidio Trust has issued a report that throws a hurdle in the path of a planned 100,000 square foot museum for Gap founder Don Fisher’s private art collection.
- There’s a whole drama going down in S.F. about the director of visitor relations at SF MOMA allegedly ejecting blogger Thomas Hawk for taking pix, even though the museum has an open photo policy. It’s a story of he said, he said, so it’s difficult to know what, exactly, went down. (See Hawk’s follow-up here.) For the record: I didn’t have any problems taking pix when I was at SF MOMA last month, as long as I stuck to the permanent collection (or the gift shop).
- My buddy Alex over at Flaming Pablum has another wonderful gallery of his New York City shots, this time from the early ‘90s.
- Graff of the Day: Revs and Kaves in Brooklyn.
- For several days, I’ve been seeing these images, of a pedestrian platform that winds its way through some idyllic Chilean hot springs, by architect German del Sol. When I saw them for the first time, the design seemed clever: stark, red foot bridges cut through and around bubbling pools of water in a forested valley. But the more I see the photos pop up all over the web, the more I have to ask myself: Do we really have to leave such indelible design footprints on nature? Isn’t the whole point of being outdoors to get away from our overbuilt environment?
- Don’t ever buy this pinche coffee maker.
- ¡Yo quiero Esteban Colberto! Speaking of which, I need some chicas…
- Your moment of Dick Cheney, sexiest man alive.
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Quits in Athens. (Photo by server_pics.)
- Too rad for words: The Instant Art Critique Phrase Generator. (Via Art251.)
- A profile of the retired policeman who beheaded the wax Hitler on a dare.
- Andrés Serrano now into poop.
- The Forger’s Spell, a book about the 1930s Dutch artist who made lots of cash peddling fake Vermeers to buyers such as Nazi Herman Goering.
- Tracey Emin wants babies. Plus, she thinks the Chinese art market is overhyped: ““Some unknown Chinese artist who was about 30 was selling more than a Damien [Hirst]. It’s not right! If what is happening in the art market was happening anywhere else it would be called insider dealing. It is RIFE!”
- The roller derby art of Jocelyn Foye.
- Nothing upsets a policeman more than a car without an engine: Artists gets pulled over for riding a pedal car.
- Metropolis Mag profiles Eli Broad: L.A.’s self-appointed master builder. (Via A.O.)
- San Franciscans not digging the idea of Gap founder Don Fisher putting his private museum on public land.
- Sales at Christie’s up 10% during the first half, largely due to buyers from the Middle East, Russia and Asia. In related news: London art sales lackluster.
- Graff of the Day: AEC and Interezni Kazki in Kiev. More here.
- “That’s how I roll, motherfucker.” (Via Ekosystem.)
- The Guardian is tired of stupid stories about street art.
- Photos from Doze Green’s and Fefe Talavera’s show at K-Space in Amsterdam.
- NYC gummint officials wipe out a Tat’s Cru “Stop Snitching” mural—two years after it was legally commissioned and painted.
- Photos from the prefab house show at MoMA.
- Frank Gehry comments on the architectural supermarket that is Abu Dhabi: “…People choose one building by me, one by Norman Foster, one by Zaha, one by Jean Nouvel, one by Daniel Libeskind. It becomes a cabinet of horrors.”
- Get over there: Today’s the last day to see Werner Herzog’s Encounters at the End of the World at Film Forum in NYC. Update: My colleague, Mlle. Connasse, tells me that the film will open at BAM this Friday. Whew!
- John McCain is really confused. About a lot of things.
- Your moment of stuff. (Via MAN.)
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Deuce Seven in Seattle. See it large. Plus: the full set. (Photo by blvd_flicks.)
- C-Monster Art Merch!! Buy the Brussels Griffon Kelala Head Journal, which features one of my photos on the cover and the description, “Kelala, a rescue from a backyard, enjoys long walk on the beach and is a real ladies man!” All proceeds go to the National Brussels Griffon Rescue. Because Everyone is Precious. (My original shot here.)
- Seems like there’s some very fishy dealings afoot in that Denver Art Museum acquisition of Thomas Eakins’ Cowboy Singing, reports Modern Art Notes.
- From the Department of They-Cannot-Be-Serious: The Guardian has a competition for teenage wannabe art critics. Because I’m sure the average teen wants nothing more than to sit around, thinking about inverting the paradigm and interpreting visual signposts.
- Art by men sells for more than art by women.
- Today’s Art-in-China installment: “The global art world’s burgeoning love affair with Mao and the Cultural Revolution makes a very neat fit with the current Chinese regime’s efforts to sell itself as the authoritarian power that everybody can learn to love.”
- Frenchman in Florida indicted on charges of attempted sale of a stolen Monet, Sisley and Breugel.
- Australian gummint types once again freaked out by the sight of nekkid children, this time, on the cover of a magazine. More here. (Via A.J.)
- Galleries in tough economic times. Related: The super-wealthy are keeping the U.K. art market afloat.
- Rising costs are making life in far-off suburbs prohibitive.
- Photo Essay: Ed Kashi’s The Curse of the Black Gold. Listen to an NPR interview with the photographer here. (Via PDN Pulse.)
- Art press release sentence of the day: “Winkleman Gallery is very pleased to present The Shallow Curator, a summer group exhibition with neither urgency nor depth.”
- A story about how Holly Block, formerly of Art in General, led the turnaround at the Bronx Museum of Art. (Via A.J.)
- Decorate your yard with the living dead.
- Graff of the Day: Ren, Savao and Nadao in Santiago, Chile.
- Skewville Hype crates get the fashion treatment.
- Silvio Berlusconi, architecture critic. Italy’s dear leader on a proposed Libeskind design: “…it’s not manly and it emanates a sense of impotence.”
- Brasilia: The buildings are gorgeous, even if the urban planning sucks.
- Where propaganda meets architecture: Herzog & de Meuron’s Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing makes the new 10 yuan note. (Via Hrag.)
- Ikea coffins.
- Your moment of Eye of the Tiger. (Click on the video.)
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Stikman, in NYC. (Photo by Elisha Cook Jr.)
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All it needs is that Mr. Happy Crack ad. (Photo by Luna Park.)
Proving that there’s never any shortage of excitement in the small and entertaining world of New York City street art, some super-meta conceptual type decided to paste a fake New Yorker critique about street art on the side of some building in Brooklyn. The prankster even attributed the “review” to the magazine’s art critic, Peter Schjeldahl.
I’m all for spoofing mainstream media, but, sadly, this piece doesn’t live up to its promise. For one, anybody who is gonna spoof the New Yorker better be able to deliver on the turn-of-phrase. This does not. (Sample sentence: “There is no sacrifice to putting this work on the street. That’s the street game, duh.”) On the content side, things don’t fare too well either. Someone risked arrest to let us know that there’s a visual kinship between the work of Swoon, Gaia and Elbow-Toe.
I was very excited, however, to see that a long-time New Yorker staple—the European beret advert, at bottom right—made it into the piece. I like to believe that everyone who works for the New Yorker wears one of these when they write.
Click here to read the fine print.
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A sound installation by Os Gemeos. (Photos by Luna Park.)
Brazilian twin artist team of Os Gemeos opened a brand spanking new show at Deitch over the weekend called Too Far Too Close. Thankfully, special correspondent Luna Park was there to grab some pix of the opening night festivities. The installation is up through August 9th.
More after the jump.
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