El conejo de Arisona, by the Date Farmers. (Image courtesy of Jonathan LeVine.)
- The Unofficial Thomas Pynchon Guide to Los Angeles. (@jennydeluxe.)
- People in art museums don’t stop to look at the art.
- Speaking of which, ArtNet rounds up the 20 top museum shows for summer.
- The Pulitzer in St. Louis is gonna have a two-day “epic read” of Ovid’s Metamorphoses at the end of the month.
- Look at Me: NYC hedge funder shows off his big, shiny Koons bling. (Art Observed.)
- Related: The wonderful world of finance-inspired art.
- The art market has fallen and it can’t get up: Sotheby’s reports an 87% dip in earnings in its second quarter.
- On Annie Leibovitz’s financial problems; more here and here. Plus: Gawker is reporting that much of her debt comes from loans taken from her employer, Condé Nast. (AFC, @theartmarket.)
- Kanye West attends art show about…Kanye West.
- Wrap your brain around this one: A musical written by John Phillips (of the Mamas and the Papas), produced by Andy Warhol and directed by Paul Morrissey. And yes, it looks bad. (Art Fag City.)
- When ads imitate art, sleeping people edition.
- Doughnuts on strings.
- The Day in Art Merch: Graffiti stickers as wallpaper.
- The NYT gives Os Gemeos’s new mural on Houston Street a curious review, describing it as ”bringing graffiti art to its Rococo phase.” Photo essay here.
- Today’s Graff: Reader (aka Rancor, aka Booker) in NYC.
- Zaha Hadid’s larva pod in Chicago finally opens. Plus: Taschen releases a tome of her complete works.
- KCRW pays tribute to Julius Shulman, with plenty of audio from the man himself. Worth setting aside the time for.
- The latest in travel: Tours of 1930s housing projects in France.
- RIP Charles Gwathmey, Tony Rosenthal.
- Your moment of dancing, clean suit style.