I learned to drive in a mint green ’67 Mustang. Here is John Schuh’s redo of the car company’s famous logo: Chrome, 2005. (Image courtesy of Schuh.)
- Virus doilies.
- That WSJ story about bloggers making all kinds of money for their clever wordsmithing? Like, totally bogus.
- How David Zwirner knows he’s found an interesting piece of art: He asks himself, WTF is it?
- Reporting on the art world is a very slippery prospect.
- More evidence that Miami is totally nuts: Despite the fact that the entire state of Florida is in an economic crater, the city is allegedly proceeding with a $280 million museum park. (Arts Journal.)
- L.A.’s drive-by art.
- Curiouser and curiouser: A committee of apparatchiks at Brandeis have approved an art garage sale.
- Museum acquisition committees see one recession benefit: cheaper art. Also: expect cheap deals at the spring auctions, which the NYT describes as having a “faint whiff of desperation.” And a story on catalogue shrinkage here. (Arts Journal.)
- Details of the pay-cuts at the Getty.
- Christopher Knight talks about how a video by Yoshua Okon is a perfect metaphor for our time. (Modern Art Notes.)
- How to understand Tony Smith’s minimalist sculpture Die: Get a cat. And a box. Watch hilarity ensue. Seriously, this video is unbelievably rad.
- The Cuchini, protecting young women everywhere from the perils of camel toe. For reals.
- Today’s Street Art: David Gouny in Paris.
- A video of NYC in the ‘80s that channels Wild Style.
- Havana’s architecture continues to crumble.
- Blair Kamin is totally loving the Art Institute of Chicago’s new modern wing: “Boldly planned and exquisitely crafted, it is a temple of light, in which carefully filtered sunlight will be as central to the visitor’s experience as steel, aluminum and Indiana limestone.”
- They Knew the End Was Near: Chrysler’s headquarters in Auburn Hills, Mich. was designed so that it could be easily repurposed into a shopping mall in the event the company died.
- Developers of the Chelsea Barracks in London are ignoring Prince Charles and moving forward with their Richard Rogers-designed plan. (architecture.mnp.)
- Your moment of architects, Monty Python style.