A photograph of a Brazilian Pixação tagger getting up in São Paulo, by Choque Photos, from the exhibit Laberinto de miradas, in Mexico City. (Image courtesy of Choque.)
- In Mexico City: Laberinto de Miradas at the Cultural Center of Spain, through August. See the photo essay. And be sure to check out the show’s website. It’s quite comprehensive.
- In L.A.: Susie Gharemani, The Wild Life, at GR2, opens Saturday.
- In L.A.: All of this is Melting Away: Selected by Jay Sanders from the collection of Susan Hancock at Royal/T, opens tonight.
- In L.A.: Bernini at the Getty Center, through Oct. 26th.
- In L.A.: Patrick Martinez and Munk1 at Fifty24LA, opens today.
- In L.A.: Insiders, Outsiders and the Middle at Scion Installation L.A., through Aug. 23rd.
- In Seattle: Escape or Reflect? at Soil, through Aug. 30th.
- In Columbus, Oh.: James Turrell at the Franklin Park Conservatory.
- In Beacon, N.Y.: Gaetane Michauz at Open Space, through Sept. 7th.
- In NYC: Ad Nauseum Lyceum at chashama UWS, through Aug. 30th.
- In NYC: chashama will be having an art extravaganza at a number of East Village locales starting this Friday.
- In NYC: Steve Powers (a.k.a. Espo) to waterboard lawyers in Coney Island tomorrow. Video here.
- In NYC: Freedom for Lazy People: Eastern European Street Art, at the Romanian Cultural Gallery, through Friday.
- In NYC: Beautiful Losers, the movie, now screening at the IFC Center in Manhattan.
- In London: A street art film series at the Tate Modern, starting Saturday.
- In Salzburg: Anselm Kiefer at Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, through Aug. 27th.
- In Tokyo: Beautiful Losers, the exhibit, at the LaForet Museum, through Saturday.
- In Singapore: Aesthetic Encounters at Art Seasons, opens Saturday.
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…we will soon return to our regularly scheduled programming.
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At the Cadillac Ranch, in Amarillo, Tex. (Photo by dentist_tx.)
- George Lucas, frozen in carbonite.
- Jeffrey Deitch on Banksy: “When you can buy a superb Picasso drawing for $500,000 and a work dashed off by Banksy for the same price, does that make sense to you?” (Via Animal.) More here.
- Picasso’s Guernica in better health than previously thought.
- Proposed San Francisco law would make it illegal to harm animals when making art. But not when making steak.
- Giant advertisement for Chanel, designed by Zaha Hadid, to make a touch down in NYC’s Central Park this October.
- Because spending money on simple art is not enough: Collectors to auction themselves to art newbies as advisers.
- A nude portrait of a woman, banned in the ‘40s by a Welsh town because it was considered too “brazen,” is now considered risqué because the principal figure is smoking.
- Winkleman has an interesting post about equity in arts funding among New York’s different cultural groups.
- Andy Warhol…in a pool. (Via Animal.)
- Update: The Village Voice on Bushwick’s emerging arts district.
- The Day in Fictitious Museum Competitons: Tate beating MoMA, reports the Guardian.
- A Q&A with Dan Cameron on Prospect 1, the New Orleans biennial he is curating.
- Pierre Huyghe on his videos from the collaborative project No Ghost Just a Shell.
- Photo Essay: The Young Women of F.L.D.S. (Via ackackack.)
- The 2008 Stirling Prize short list, with pix. (Via architecture.mnp.)
- Photos of S.F.’s new Federal Building by Thomas Mayne. (Via A.J.)
- Fascinating Pairings: Plataforma has side-by-side photos of the first and last works of Le Corbusier, Mies and Frank Lloyd Wright.
- Photos from the architecture showcase at Expo Zaragoza in Spain.
- Far Out: The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will play a 12-movement piece inspired by the Grateful Dead—on what would have been Jerry Garcia’s 66th birthday—complete with psychedelic light show.
- Your moment of Papa Was a Rolling Stone.
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From the C-Monster Family Album: My uncle shows a cousin the delicate art of balance.
- The Electrical Walks of Christina Kubisch. (Be sure to give the audio file a listen. It’s trippy.)
- Anish Kapoor to get a solo at the Royal Academy in London next year. The Academy is also planning a revamp of its Burlington Gardens by architect David Chipperfield.
- Photographer Pieter Hugo discusses his deep suspicion of photography, as well as how his series, the Hyena Men, came together. See images here.
- Millionaires: Mortgage that pricey art collection for extra cash. (Via A.J.)
- Artist seeks patron.
- ¡Artworld Smackdown! AFC vs. the Guardian’s Jonathan Jones.
- The Day in Bacterial Cleansing: A Milan scientist has employed a voracious bacterium called Desulfovibrio vulgaris vulgaris in art conservation. The little buggers apparently love to feast on the black crust that forms on stone statues and buildings.
- *fab* has a few preview pix from Manifesta 7, in Trentino, Italy, on her Flickr feed.
- Shigeru Ban to design a new 30,000 square foot building for the Aspen Art Museum.
- Parts one, two and three of a four-part interview with Gary Panter, now up on VBS.tv.
- Paper Magazine discovers Bushwick. And their version doesn’t seem to include any brown people.
- Street art of the Day: JR in Cartagena, Spain.
- It’s all about graffiti merch: The Smart Cap Vending Machine.
- Fast Forward: The Gehry Pavilion, at London’s Serpentine Gallery, assembled in seven minutes.
- An interesting hotel at the end of the world: Remota, by German del Sol, in Chilean Patagonia.
- 10 amazing ghost towns. And their artistic parallels.
- The obligatory pre-Olympics Beijing’s-development-is-killing-the old-part-of-the-city story.
- Legal Update: Lesbians can still be lesbians, according to Greek court.
- Our economy’s in the pooper because Wall Street got “drunk,” reports our fearless President. More like high on cocaine.
- Your moment of I’ve Never Been to Me. (Thank you, Mlle. Connasse.)
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Oh, the hair: Portrait of Nbuda Funkshun. From the Kriegsmann Files, a set of musician portraits discovered in an L.A. trash bin. NPR story here. (Image courtesy of sharpeworld.)
- 30 abstract satellite images of Earth. (Via VSL.)
- Sort-of related: The universe and Trevor Paglen.
- We have a very bad feeling about this. Unless, of course, we can be a judge. (Via AFC.)
- Design-conscious death, courtesy of Greg Lundgren.
- Me, me, me…on the subject of LACMA’s Edo-era art-merch.
- Picasso’s Guernica is getting worn out from its busy travel schedule. In related news: Pompeii is in dire state.
- I Don’t Have Time for Noncontroversial Art Exhibits: “No time for second-guessing or slowly soaking in the dynamic, geometric tension of the upcoming Cézanne retrospective. Not while there’s a guy in the East Village who’s going to vomit Cheerios into a piggy bank and smash it open with his penis.” (Via AFC.)
- Some lovely shots of the streets of New York City in the days before Olive Garden.
- Street art of the Day: Swoon in S.F. (Via Ekosystem.)
- Statisticians have figured out a way to sniff out forgeries by analyzing patterns left by the artist’s hand. (Via A.J.)
- Herzog & de Meuron’s proposed extension (with revision) for the Tate Modern (via architecture.mnp). A round-up on the subject here.
- Attention, Art Socialites: Art Institute of Chicago’s Modern Wing to hold its public opening on May 16, 2009. Plus: Louvre lays the first stone on new Islamic wing.
- Expect lots of juicy stories about mismanagement and overspending: Sen. Charles Grassley introduces legislation that would wipe out the Smithsonian’s exemption from the Freedom of Information Act.
- A New Yorker history of lawns. (Via architecture.mnp.)
- The ethics (and urban planning implications) of house flipping.
- Putting up those prefabs at MoMA: Not so easy. More on the show here.
- The winners of the Architectural Jelly Competition, with photos of some of the more notable entries.
- Dumpster living.
- The Decade in Government Efficiency: Eight years after the 2000 presidential debacle, ballot design still sucks.
- Your moment of What What in the Butt.
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The Murakami Louis Vuitton boutique at the Brooklyn Museum. (Photo by Jason Lujan.)
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