Leviathan, 2011, by Anish Kapoor, at the Grand Palais, through June 23. (Photos by Vincent Desjardins. With a hat tip to Yvonne Connasse.)
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Dismemberment of Jeanne D’Arc by Anish Kapoor, at this past last May’s Brighton Festival. You know you want to see it large. See a photo essay of the construction of the piece here. (Photo by Luna Park.)
Congrats to Eugenio for winning the C-Mon Giveaway Extravaganza of Marc Johns’ Serious Drawings!
- All the artspeak you’ve never wanted: Art Baloney, a new blog devoted to chronicling the tortured, the contorted and the convoluted in art writing. Send nominations to artbaloney [at] yahoo [dot] com
- OH YES! Bravo issues casting call for new art reality show. (Dear Bravo, Who do I gotta blow to be a judge? I can be the Bruno of art reality TV: short, funny, ethnic, handy with malaprops. Please let me know where I can submit my reel.) Interestingly, ABC’s Wife Swap is also doing some casting, and they’re looking for a family that’s “passionate about graffiti as an art form.”
- A two-fer: Picking out art for the White House + Philip Smith’s letter to Art in America about being excluded from the Pictures Generation show at the Met.
- Plus, more art controversy: The Saltz-master meets with MoMA curator Ann Temkin to discuss the lack of vag on the museum’s 4th and 5th floors.
- The art industrial average is limp: Bidding thin at Christie’s auction in London.
- Museum musical chairs: Ann Goldstein leaves L.A.’s MOCA for the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. More here. And: Timothy Rub departs Cleveland to take over the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
- Hugh Pearman calls for the return of the Elgin Marbles in the Times of London.
- Koons on Jackson: “I wanted to show Michael as a contemporary Christ figure: I wanted to give the viewer a sense of a spiritual authority.” Uh-huh.
- Chelsea in 1996.
- From the Guy Who Brought You Iraq: The Gen. Tommy Franks Leadership Museum. Donate now! (What a Lovely Recession.)
- Felix Salmon on why artists should get paid.
- Ryan McGinness talks about his relationship with plants.
- Submit yer blog! Dazed Digital is accepting submission for their new blog awards.
- Pina Bausch, R.I.P.
- A swaying tree sculpture. (ackackack.)
- Today’s Street Art: Zukclub in Russia.
- The Day in Burned Out Buildings: The ashy shell of Rem Koolhaas’s Mandarin Oriental still stands in Beijing. China and the World thinks it’s because the Chinese government has yet to decide what to do.
- Super FAIL! An epic building collapse in Shanghai.
- An installation made with red umbrellas.
- Your moment of a brief history of art.