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.)
South Slope, by F. Trainer. You can find his blog here.
- “You can’t fuck someone in the ass with a dildo, according to the current edition of the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, the American Heritage Dictionary, and Webster’s New World Dictionary.” (Thanks for the tip on this highly edifying read, Big Papi G.)
- The Miami Art Scene: not dead yet.
- In sort of related news: the Miami Art Museum is charging people $15/head to hear Pierre de Meuron talk about the museum’s grandiloquent new home. (Maybe this is how they’re raising their share of the millions necessary to build the sucker?)
- Bonus: Just in time for the Basel-Frazzle, my guide to Miami on Time.com – complete with Elian Gonzalez house, gas station dining and butt facials!!!
- Double plus: John Baldessari’s guide to L.A. Interesting tip: you can buy a grave-cleaning kit at Forest Lawn cemetary.
- NYC big on women artists this season.
- Umberto Eco to guest-curate at the Louvre.
- Cleaning time at the Frick.
- How big is the art market? Marian Maneker at the Art Market Monitor estimates that it’s currently about $15 billion a year – which puts it roughly on par with the pet food industry. Which leads me to today’s deep thought: I wonder how often pet food is used as an artistic material. (AFC.)
- Emperor Nero’s rotating dining room. (Arts Journal.)
- Yes, Mistress. (Conscientious.)
- Art as a physical part of early education.
- Tonight, in Brooklyn: a lecture by Annie Novak about the Greenpoint rooftop farm, at Pete’s Candy Store.
- Whoa! Greg.org has an awesome post on the military origins of the trippy design Jeff Koons painted on the yacht of New Museum trustee Dakis Joannou.
- Rio de Janeiro, Olympic City.
- Life in Guantanamo. Sorta related: a photo essay about the U.S. war in Afghanistan. (Looking Around.)
- Today’s Graff: Tosco in Lisbon.
- A monument to Pedro Almodovar.
- SANAA’s sensuous curves.
- Your moment of Frieze magazine’s freakiest correspondence. I confess: I’m the one who sent the missive about the pre-stained underwear. (@artnetdotcom.)
Overgrowth/Going Green - in Berlin. (Photo by F. Trainer.)
Route 66, by F. Trainer. (Image courtesy of F. Trainer.)
Happy birf-day to The Recluse.
