Cycle, at the Welling Court Mural Project, organized by Ad Hoc Art, in Queens. See my full Flickr set here. (Photo by C-M.)
- “I’m Comic Sans, and I’m the best thing to happen to typography since Johannes fucking Gutenberg.“
- “We’ve reserved three graves for you, Mr Burgess. One for your body, one for your books and one for your ego.” (@drmabuse.)
- MoMA Learning is looking for “REALLY good examples” of online writing about art for a general audience. Since I’m shy and retiring, I’d like to nominate myself for my incisive review of their Pipilotti Rist exhibit. Can anyone second my motion? I won’t rest until I’m part of a MoMA PowerPoint.
- The very awesome 16 Miles of String has a new web addy.
- The Queen’s jewels are gonna have competition: Damien Hirst wants to open up his own gallery in Hyde Park, in which visitors will have to pay to see the diamond skull. (@museumnerd.)
- Don’t want to pay to see it? Make your own.
- Chapman brothers paint over a Breughel.
- Restoring Rothko paintings with light. (@stevesilberman.)
- Give masterpieces a rest, says Terry Teachout. (Arts Journal.)
- This Felipe Ehrenberg show in Long Beach sounds highly interesting.
- At the Brooklyn Museum, attendance is down. And Museum Nerd says that the New York Times doesn’t tell the whole story.
- On a sort of not related note: The Brooklyn Museum is organizing Work of Art screening parties at Soda in Brooklyn — starting tonight!
- ¡Art Industry Smackdown! Jerry Salz takes on Robert Storr over YouTube art at the Gugg.
- A helpful primer on social media art.
- Killer viruses as things of beauty. See the totally gnarly slideshow right here.
- The wood sculptures of Andy Vogt.
- Philip Toledano, on how his book Days With My Father came together.
- Today’s Street Art: Ripo gets historic in Barcelona.
- World’s largest penis graffito?
- Monsters attack + iconic tourist destinations=Postcards I Wanna Have.
