Mating Dogs from Colima, Mexico, 300 BC to AD 300, at the de Young, in S.F. (Photo by C-M.)
- A Seattle art show by David Hoang to be based entirely on Tweets. (See the artist’s Twitter feed here.)
- Polishing the Walker’s cherry. Does that sound dirty or what?
- Todd Eberle’s America.
- Sharon Butler talks to Regina Hackett, formerly of the Seattle P-I, and now of Another Bouncing Ball, about how blogging changed her life.
- Friends and neighbors: Fascinating photo essay by Zoe Strauss. (Modern Art Notes.)
- Ai Weiwei’s blog. I don’t understand a word of it, but I love the weird bunny thingthat appears whenever you drag your pointer to the upper right hand corner. (@artnetdotcom)
- Museums and rising entry fees, in one and two parts.
- Squirrel empanadas. (reBlog.)
- But does it have a taco stand? The Smithsonian’s Latino Center has inaugurated a folk-drenched “Latino Virtual Museum” in Second Life, complete with a “placita” and a room full of musical instruments. (Because, in case you didn’t know, my people love to dance.) Woulda been waaaaay cooler if they’d gotten Los Bros. Hernandez to design the thing. (Thanks to Sound Taste for the cabeza arriba.)
- Photographing the end of days. (ackackack)
- “Graffiti infuriates homeowners, degrades streets and undercuts civil pride.” (Juxtapoz.)
- Today’s Street Art, pixilated shark edition: r8bit in Russia.
- For the graffiti artist who likes to play it extra safe: The Walls Notebook.
- Trippy tea house. (reBlog.)
- Redesigning Paris. (Arts Journal.)
- Architecture is in the crapper in the U.K.
- Not sure how this would work, but it sounds intriguing: Affordable housing units that harvest human body heat to maintain temperature. (architecture.mnp.)
- Your moment of Twitter rap. (Huffington Post via reBlog.)