All This And More, by Marc Johns. (Image courtesy of Marc Johns.)
- No kicking penguins.
- Hoping, praying, hoping that the art industrial average is rising out of the pooper. (@russelltrombone)
- Woman at the Met falls on a Picasso – tears him a new one. (@hyperallergic.)
- Ed Belbruno, astrophysicist/painter. I love his website.
- Art21 has been doing some fascinating segments on the people who fabricate art. This week: the guy who makes Paul McCarthy’s kinky animatronic sculptures.
- Bauhaus tapestries.
- The sculptural possibilities of urinals (beyond your everyday ready-made). (@russelltrombone)
- The stray dogs of Moscow. (BLDGBLOG.)
- Tweets as classic books. (Art Fag City.)
- Help Studio 360 redesign Valentine’s.
- A little 1970 manga: Desert Eyeball, by Maki Sasaki.
- Banksy’s Park City, Utah pieces have been getting the buff.
- Today’s Street Art: The wire sculptures of Spenser Little in San Diego. More here.
- La Puerta: A stop-motion animation by Limow and Sam3.
- Unemployed architects improvise new gigs.
- Brooklyn-based SO-IL will be doing the install — called Pole Dance — at P.S. 1 this summer. See trippy-weird schematic video here.
- In Chicago: a cast iron decoration by Louis Sullivan gets a freshening up.
- New building by the Dark Lord Foster opens in Racine.
- McDonald’s new burgers in Japan: the Big American. Be sure to watch the video.