Tone, Cense and Skrew in North Philly. (Photo by Luna Park.)
- Today’s post-apocalyptic animated video: Future Man by Ryo Hirano.
- Jeff Koons, art collector. My favorite line: Randy Kennedy describing Koons’ studio as having “the bright, hygienic aura of a pharmaceutical lab or a high-end car-detailing shop.”
- Sorta related: An adulatory profile of New Museum trustee and Jeff Koons boat-owner Dakis Joannou. Interesting fact: Koons designed his daughter’s wedding cake.
- Plus, more rich-people folly: Elton John’s shower art.
- Museums see rise in attendance. But bigger crowds don’t necessary translate into more revenue. (Arts Journal.)
- Lost Haitian Art: Writer Amy Wilentz gathers images of destroyed Haitian cultural treasures on Flickr. Join the group if you have pix. (Intelligent Travel.)
- Laser surgery technique used for tattoo removal is now being used to clean sculptures. (Arts Journal.)
- Marina Abramovic has a pimple. (Would that make a great name for a band, or what?)
- The case of David Burdeny and Sze Tsung Leong: Did one photographer plagiarize the other?
- Sepia Town.
- How the brain processes sarcasm. Or why you need both sides of your brain to understand C-Monster.
- Awesomely Groovy Photo Essay: The Mali pix of Malick Sidibé.
- The Boneyard.
- Wiping turtles butts — and other things National Geographic photographers do.
- There’s a free screening of Whole Train tonight at the Goethe-Institut in L.A. at 7pm.
- Today’s Street Art: Luz Interruptus, Literature versus Traffic, in Brooklyn.
- A house floats out to sea following the quake in Chile. It pains me to see this. Plus: the earthquake released 50 gigatons of energy.
- Aggrandizing architecture porn alert!!! The trailer for How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster, a new flick about the Dark Lord Norman Foster, which seems to be equal parts Raise the Red Lantern and Koyaanisqatsqi – without any disagreeable-looking sweaty labourers, of course. (Coudal.)
- Very cool: The VitraHaus, an architecture museum in Germany designed by Herzog & de Meuron.
- Ice skating!!! Makin’ me wish I had a spangly body suit.