Move It On Over, 2010 by Elbow Toe, in Brooklyn. (Photo by guy_on_the_streets.)
- In our cut-and-paste culture, it appears that the young’uns don’t understand plagiarism.
- It’s official: iPad owners are douchebags. Okay, maybe not technically “douchebags,” but close… (Art Fag City.)
- Like, whoa: A heartbeat chamber orchestra.
- A very interesting essay by Ta-Nehisi Coates comparing the history of interracial and gay marriages. (@jeffweinstein.)
- Imagery and the Civil Rights movement.
- Detroit, attracting artsiness with its decay.
- Tyler Green interviews lens-master Zoe Strauss about her coverage of the Gulf disaster, in one and two parts.
- Should Cal State Fresno show disputed Ansel Adams images?
- Art dealer Larry Salander gets 6-18 years in fraud case. Prosecuting D.A. describes him as “pathologically self-absorbed.” (@hyperallergic.)
- El Saltzino’s favorite paintings in New York. Be sure to see the accompanying slideshow.
- Scientists in Italy trying to figure out if Stendahl syndrome is for real. (Arts Journal.)
- The Chapman brothers are holding a coloring contest. Seriously.
- The Things That Divide Us: David Taylor will be giving a talk at the Center for Land Use Interpretation in L.A. tonight on the 19th century obelisks that mark the U.S./Mexico border from El Paso to San Diego. Looks fascinating.
- Angel’s Gate in San Pedro, Calif. is looking for a new visual arts director.
- The Day in Fear Mongering: Crazy report equates stickering with “eco-terrorism.” Would love to know what they call what that Hummer’s tailpipe is doing to my lungs.
- Today’s Graff: Pener explodes geometry in Poland.
- Photos from Swoon’s Konbit Shelter project in Haiti.
- Iranian architectural proposal in London getting some folks so riled, they’re calling on Prince Charles to get involved. (Culture Monster.)
- Plus: To paraphrase a retweet by Christopher Hawthorne: Two paragraphs of sanity on the Ground Zero mosque. Plus: A wonderful piece on the folks behind the community center over at Time. Now somebody please send these to Fox News.
- At the Domino Sugar Factory, on the Brooklyn waterfront: Condos.
- Same shit, different social network.
