A paste-up by JR in New York City. Ekosystem has a night shot.(Photo by Joe Holmes.)
- Venetian gondoliers for Obama. (Courtesy of San Suzie!) Plus: McCain on the environment. And, please vote! A PBS poll on whether you think Palin is qualified to be veep.
- “Überdealer” Larry Gagosian’s Moscow show is all about education: educating Russians to buy his wares. Plus: NY Mag reports that “Gago” skipped out on Hirst-a-palooza at Sotheby’s in order to manage the debut of his Russian roadshow. Related: Deep Thoughts by Damien Hirst.
- ¡Art Industry Smackdown! Damien Hirst=Thomas Kinkade, says the NYT’s Roberta Smith.
- ¡Art Industry Smackdown #2! Germaine Greer vs. Robert Hughes: “Bob, dear, Damien Hirst is just one of many artists you don’t get.”
- On poop in art. More here.
- In Seattle: when cheesy retail outlets (allegedly) rip off installation artists. And then deny it.
- Sol Lewitt’s SF MOMA murals get buffed.
- More hijinks from the Smithsonian, gimme money edition.
- Trippy: Audience, an installation by Random International and Chris O’Shea that is made of individual mirrors that react to the public as they walk around. (Via eyebeam.)
- How England’s National Gallery protected its art during World War II.
- An interesting photojournalism story: photographer Rick Smolan on shooting an Amerasian girl in Korea, and ultimately getting her adopted by friends.
- Tricked out: A history of the Popemobile. (Via Life Without Buildings.)
- Ben Kingsley kicks ass.
- Bathroom graffiti round-up, one and two.
- Graff of the Day: WaOne and Interesni-Kazki in the Ukraine. More here.
- Steven Holl architects to design a new arts center at Princeton. More on the project here. Plus: an image of the maquette.
- Loopy architecture: The Denmark Pavilion for Shanghai Expo 2010 by BIG.
- Frank Lloyd Wright on What’s My Line, looking like he’d like to be just about anywhere else.
- Landmark Illinois’s 10 Most Endangered Buildings. (Via Hrag.)
- The life of the architect: Win a Pritzker, design a pooper.
- Because the world really needs to know my every thought burp: I’m on Twitter.
- From the culture that brought you the Renaissance…Your moment of My Name is Potato, a video that has me loving carbs. (Grazie, Yvonne, for the sublime ridiculosity.)
Know Hope, in Brooklyn. (Photo by this is limbo.)
Scheme in Moscow. (Image courtesy of Streetfiles.org.)
- Amazing Hurricane Ike photos at Big Picture. (Via NotCot.)
- Andres Serrano selling photos of poo for $24,000 a poop.
- Call the Bomb Squad: There are guys in bear suits in D.C.
- Hirst-a-palooza! The garage sale went well, reports Bloomberg. More on the blowout in ArtInfo, the NY Times, and the Times of London. The latter makes the interesting point that one of Hirst’s gallerists, Jay Jopling of White Cube, bid on 20 of the 56 lots on Monday night — presumably to avoid a general devaluation of Hirst’s work. In the meantime, while Rome the financial industry burned, lots o’ people bought very expensive animals in formaldehyde.
- In related news: Charlotte Higgins at the Guardian has an excellent idea! Now that Hirst is richer than ever, he can buy those Titians for Britian’s National Galleries.
- Oh yeah! The NY Times has a story about Julian Schnabel that announces the lucky winner of the Schnabel/Mastercard “priceless” campaign.
- And yet another report from the world of Art Hype: Daria Zhukova, girlfriend of Russian billionaire, opens a contemporary non-profit art gallery — billed as Russia’s answer to the Tate Modern and MoMA — in Moscow (via A.J.). More here.
- How the A.I.G. meltdown will affect the art industry.
- Five stolen Dutch master paintings taken from the Frans Hals Museum in ‘02 have been recovered. (Via A.J.)
- The Getty Center’s new television ad. Well done. (Via NotCot.)
- Wax Hitler back on display. Head and all.
- Art Press Release of the Day.
- Photos of a piece by Vito Acconci and Helene Brandt in Da Bronx.
- Nothing Like a Little Imperial Gloating: Russia puts its spoils from the invasion of Georgia on display at the Central Museum of Armed Forces in Moscow.
- An overview of the architecture at the Venice Biennale, whose main exhibit the L.A. Times thinks is “a decade out of date.” The action, reports Christopher Hawthorne, is at the national pavilions. More here and here.
- A first look at Renzo Piano’s “green” re-do of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.
- Images of a very flooded Farnsworth House.
- A visual round-up of the Bush Years. Just in case you’ve forgotten how badly they’ve sucked. (Via ackackack.)
- Your moment of barking cat.
What I’ve seen today: a red-shouldered hawk eating a snake, a turtle sunbathing, two locusts mating, ‘gators snoozing, turkey buzzards riding the wind currents, a rat snake hunting, and I got bit on the lip by an absolutely ferocious mosquito. Can’t wait to do it all again tomorrow. (Photo by C-M.)
Aiko at Brooklynite Gallery in Bed-Stuy. (Image courtesy of Brooklynite.)
- In NYC: Aiko, Shut Up and Look, at the Brooklynite Gallery in Bed-Stuy, opens Saturday.
- In NYC: The London Police, Pez and Eine at Ad Hoc Art, opens Friday.
- In NYC: David Sandlin, Sin-A-Rama: An Alphabetical Ballad of Carnality, at Jack the Pelican in Brooklyn, opens Friday.
- In NYC: Provocative Visions: Race and Identity - selections from the permanent collection, at the Met, through March 8, 2009.
- In NYC: Magnum photographer Burt Glinn, Havana: A Revolutionary Moment, at Umbrage in Dumbo, opens tomorrow.
- In NYC: Rirkrit Tiravanija, Demonstration Drawings, at the Drawing Center, opens Friday.
- In NYC: Tony Smith at Matthew Marks, opens Saturday.
- In Raleigh: Latina and Other Recent Work, the photographs of José Gálvez at Peace College, opens Wednesday.
- In Miami: Loriel Beltran at Fredric Snitzer, opens Saturday.
- In L.A.: Sandrine Pelletier’s Insekts at Fette, opens Friday.
- In Seattle: Marco Zamora and Derek Albeck, Disconnected, at BLVD, opens Friday.
- In Venice, Italy: Zaha Hadid and Patrick Schumacher at Villa Foscari La Malcontenta.
- In London: Francis Bacon at the Tate, opens Thursday.
Swoon’s Swimming Cities of the Switchback Sea in Long Island City. (Photo by sabeth718.)
Hey Folks: I’m still on the road, missing all kinds of artsy goodness in NYC, but enjoying the flocks of gargantuan mosquitoes keeping me company on the southern shores of Lake Okeechobee. To keep y’all entertained, here are some pix of Swoon’s latest at Deitch Studios, in Queens, courtesy of Flickr bud sabeth718 and regular C-Monster.net contributor Luna Park.
The show is up until October 18th. To read more on Swoon’s latest riverine project, logon to ArtInfo, which has an interview with the artist right here. Plus: Gammablog has video.
The Digest will return on Monday. Many more photos after the jump.
xox, C.
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