Ambush in Quadrant 4, 75″ x 88″ quilt, by Jimmy McBride. (Image courtesy of McBride.)
- Study shows that wall text can ruin art for people. LOL. (Arts Journal.)
- Shut up, already: Ed Winkleman will look at your art as part of #CLASS. He will be reviewing all submitted images throughout the course of the exhibit. Plus: the show now has a live-stream web-cam.
- Must. Get. The Howdy Koonsy T-shirt. (@artnetdotcom.)
- All GaGa All the Time: Lady GaGa Barbie dolls. Plus: GaGa’s college essay on Spencer Tunick. In case you don’t have a stomach for artspeak, @gregorg helpfully summarizes the whole mess in under 140 characters. (@ARTnewsmag, @artnetdotcom.)
- Destroying the Polaroid photo collection.
- All art stories should begin with an anecdote about the author’s bikini wax. Seriously.
- Anaba does some helpful math on how often big critics (including the ones that like to trash talk) review solo shows by living female artists. Seems like, um, almost never…
- New York Mag profiles Whitney Biennial curator/amateur painter Francesco Bonami.
- Camilo Ontiveros, recycler of washing machines, wins ARCOMadrid prize.
- This could be an interesting way of whiling away endless delays: video art at LAX.
- The fascinating point at which Pearl Paint, John Waters and Paddy Johnson’s kleptomania intersect.
- Abstraction on the wall and around your neck.
- Zurbaran’s monks in hoodies.
- NY Art Beat has just debuted an art calendar iPhone app.
- Restored version of the 1927 film Metropolis screened at Berlin film festival. (IIC.)
- The Criterion Collection has a Hulu channel. Oh yes.
- Today’s Graff: Seacreative in Italy.
- Tour the unpaved streets of a never-built California town. This looks AWESOME.
- The industrial parks of Irvine, Calif. I’ve worked inside some of those. I can promise you that it’s as soul-crushing as it looks — in only the most bizarre Office Space kind of way.
- La Zaha’s revenues plummet.
- “Find me a photo of Jesus.“