All About That, by Gabriel Shaffer, at the Berenberg Gallery booth at the Outsider Art Fair in NYC last week. (Image courtesy of Shaffer.)
- Art museum toilets. (@QueensMuseum.)
- The Art Industrial Average is Flaccid: Downturn in college art faculty hiring. (Arts Journal.)
- Glad to see they’re doing something useful: Art school grads getting into tattooing. (@giovannigf.)
- On that unenforceable Tino Sehgal image ban.
- Jerry Saltz is making little girls cry. Sorta related: Tyler Green says John Yau deserves a closer read in the whole Saltz/Yau smackdown.
- Winter Olympians as photographed by Ryan McGinley. ‘Cuz even Olympians can be moody in an early millennium kind of way. (World’s Best Ever.)
- Richard Lacayo on Patti Smith’s prose.
- Vincent Van Gogh letters go digital.
- Bernard-Henri Lévy is the “laughing stock of the Left Bank” for quoting a fictional philosopher in a rant about Kant. This makes me chuckle as much as that trite-awful travelogue he wrote about the U.S. a few years back. (Seriously, Sharon Stone as a source of cultural insight? I Kant stop laughing. LOL.) (@hragv.)
- In L.A.: Dan Savage and Bek at the Hammer tonight.
- “There is no culture here, only trash.” — Philip K. Dick on California.
- A river of mud.
- Skating Uganda. It’s worth watching the video. (@SamSifton.)
- The Photos of Chris Mottalini: Last “portraits” of Paul Rudolph structures before they are demolished. If you live in Auburn, Al. this looks like a show to see.
- Psychology Today analyzes why those hipsters in Unhappy Hipsters are so unhappy — and blames it on modernism.
- RIP Waffle House architect Clifford Nahser.
- A hotel that looks like a honeycomb.
- Burj Khalifa observation deck has been shut down after trapping tourists at the top.
- Audio Slideshow: On the life and work of Eero Saarinen.
- Godzilla pussycat.