Draper style. (Photo by F.Trainer.)
- You too could be the proud owner of a giant Canadian beaver. Inflatable, of course.
- It’s all about performance. At least in NYC’s major museums. Plus: An audio slideshow devoted to the female artists of the genre.
- The Marina Abramovic cam. In related news: I stared at Marina Abramovic and all I got was this lousy T-shirt. And: Audio of Abramovic’s press conference, earlier in the month. (@gregorg.)
- Child performers at the Gugg’s Tino Sehgal show didn’t get paid. Instead, they got a hat, a bag and a museum membership. What, no key chain? Sehgal’s performers also report that American college students are the rudest of all museum-goers.
- Could be interesting: The Tate is inviting producers, poets and hip-hop musicians to react to Chris Ofili’s work.
- Christopher Knight likes Luc Tuymans, he really really likes him.
- Nazi-looted Corot to go to auction.
- A biennial grows in Denver. ‘Cuz what the world really needs is another biennial. (Though I have to confess, I’m digging the North/South America angle on this one.)
- Kathy Grayson, a director at Deitch’s gallery, to take on a bunch of the soon-to-be MoCA director’s artists.
- Alexandra Peers goes to the NY Observer. (@russelltrombone.)
- Art by telephone: authenticating Andy Warhol.
- Please don’t lick the art. Shit, I coulda used this shirt on Saturday night. (Eyeteeth.)
- From the Annals of White People Hijinks: Having chickens in NorCal is now a movement known as “femivorism.” In the rest of the world (and among the poor and in agricultural/rural societies), this important movement is known as “having chickens.”
- The rare black penguin.
- Rednecks and cars.
- Photo Set: New York in the ’60s and ’70s. (Flaming Pablum.)
- RIP photographer Charles Moore. Renowned for dramatic civil rights era photographs such as this. (Thanks for the heads up, Bill.)
- Today’s Graff: Arp in Naples, Italy.
- Jean Nouvel’s latest. Ourossoff describes it as having a “rough-edged sex appeal.”
- I love me some taxidermy. (Coudal.)