On Nicolás de Pierola in downtown. (Photo by C-M.)
Update: Just learned that this piece is by Seimiek.
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Brooklyn rooftops. Best viewed large.
- Just Landed, a video by Jer Thorp. (NotCot.)
- Obama names nominee for NEA: New York theatre producer Rocco Landesman, the guy behind Angels in America and The Producers.
- Welcome to reality: Art school students like totally bummed about job prospects. (@artnetdotcom.)
- Art market now being described as ‘recalibrated.’ I describe it as being in the shitter.
- In honor of LACMA’s Pompeii show: The Pomplaylist. Related: The L.A.T. asks museum-goers whether the $25 ticket is too much to pay for the show.
- An auction raises money for L.A.’s troubled MOCA. But that doesn’t mean the budget cuts and layoffs are over.
- The Tate Modern is looking for identical twins.
- Marcel Duchamp explains how to make a readymade: Take a Rembrandt. Iron on it. (Eyeteeth.)
- The Arbitrary Grant.
- Photo Essay: Installing Ernesto Neto at the Park Avenue Armory.
- Edo-era pregnant dolls.
- Pixels out of control in this trippy animated short. (NotCot.)
- Overcoming tourism.
- Luuuuucha Libre! Coming soon to a town near you…if you live in California. Photo essay here. (World’s Best Ever.)
- Is Bansky now into self-portraiture? The Internerdz are atwitter. (@artnetdotcom.)
- Which U.S. state has the boldest architecture? Ohio, says Fast Company. (Buildings and Food.)
- Ada Louise Huxtable looks at public architecture in NYC. Apparently, it is much improved from the bottom-line crap that usual gets built. Now, if only these forward-thinking design principles could be applied to Ground Zero. (Arts Journal.)
- Jonathan Glancey reports on Prince Charles’s respectful speech at the Royal Institute of British Architects: Not all that interesting, it turns out. If you miss the days when HRH got crazy about modernist carbuncles, however, Looking Around helpfully links to Chuck’s 1984 speech.
- Starchitecture on fire! A blaze consumes part of Zaha Hadid’s yet-to-be opened Guangzhou opera house. The extent of the damage is unknown. (Arts Journal.)
- Your moment of the Simpsons getting architectural.
Lin (?) in Rome, Italy. Holler if you know the name of the artist. Update: Apparently, it’s Linfa, of the 180 Crew. (Photo by C-M.)
- Homer’s Odyssey, Twitter version. (Thank you, Todd!)
- BLDGBLOG, in defense of Twitter: “Heraclitus would have had a f***ing Twitter feed.”
- The art industrial average is down. (AFC.)
- Art about money. Does it remain valuable in a recession?
- The Day in Sublime Lawsuits: Some guy is suing L.A.’s MOCA and Louis Vuitton for selling him repurposed Murakami handbag material as art. Dude: You bought a piece in a purse shop. What exactly were you expecting?
- Go East Young Man: Damien Hirst to put on biggest show ever in Kiev.
- Night of the living Koons. Plus, what promises to be an entertaining take on art in film: The Maiden Heist, which stars C-Mon fave Christopher Walken as a museum guard plotting to steal his favorite works with a couple of buddies.
- Wonder what conservators will think about all those steamy exhales: Yoga in art museums. More here.
- Italy spends 3.3 million euros on a crucifix that may or may not be a Michelangelo. Speaking of which, damn, do I love those Italian cop outfits.
- The photographs of Homer Page.
- Vintage Japanese sketches of insects under microscopes. Love the flea.
- While I was gorging on pizza and baba au rum: Zumthor won the Pritzker, Cotter and Farrell won Pulitzers and Adjaye won the commission to do the new Smithsonian.
- Skewville prints.
- Looking Around talks about Shepard Fairey, in one and two parts. Plus: the Fairey/AP smackdown gets surreal, and Hope in a can. (Unbeige.)
- Plastic bag art, illuminated.
- The two-point perspective in architecture. Very cool.
- Scary: A time lapse of 25 years of growth in Las Vegas.
- A low-lying desert house in Pachacamac, Peru. As a point of comparison: an image of the nearby pre–Columbian ruins.
- In further Andean cone news: A very horizontal building for an olive oil company in Chile makes agriculture look kinda hot.
- Frank Gehry is mad as hell over his Miami Beach project. And he’s not gonna take it anymore.
- Your moment of Good Foot. (Thank you, Dawn!)
Dr. Sex and Hour in L.A.. (Photo by Luna Park.)
- Klaus Nomi singing Henry Purcell’s Cold Song six months before his death.
- That sublime point where anteaters and Edward Hopper intersect. (Thank you, Tire Fire!)
- Wunderkind Powers Activate! Form of a curator.
- Regina Hackett of the Seattle P-I, is now over at Arts Journal under the new guise Another Bouncing Ball.
- Blake Gopnik of the Washington Post being impersonated on Twitter.
- Gagosian losing clients to indictments.
- A handy update on the Rose Museum brouhaha at Brandeis: the family that funded the museum says No way to a shut-down. More here and here.
- Variations on a theme: diamond-studded skulls on album covers.
- The latest from David Ellis.
- Better than Jenny Holzer’s redacted paintings: Anissa Mack’s My Sister’s Diary.
- Chicago Gang Cards. (To Fear It is to Know It.)
- African banknotes.
- How to opt out of Google targeted ads. (reBlog.)
- The photography of Homer Page.
- The NYT reviews Fairey’s show at the ICA: “Despite its rousing first impact, the exhibition leaves you with a sense of dismay at the devolution of a certain avant-garde dream into a kind of visual easy listening for the college-educated masses.”
- Buy a home at the Queens Museum of Art. (Hrag Vartanian.)
- Spain’s architecture boom ground to a halt by the recession. (Arts Journal.)
- Todd Hido’s images of foreclosed homes.
- 100 Flickr collections for architecture buffs.
- Your moment of Money Hole.
A mural by WERC and CROL, part of the La Entrada project in San Diego. (Image courtesy of La Entrada.)
- Vintage TV test cards. (ackackack.)
- MoMA’s subway ads get remixed by Poster Boy.
- Schnabel While You Eat: The pajama’d one has reportedly designed a dining room for Old Homestead Steakhouse in NYC. (Art Observed.)
- Assume Vivid Astro Focus collages the cover of the NYT Style Magazine.
- Arctic Circle. (Coudal.)
- The 25 Most Valuable Blogs. (ackackack.)
- Oh-so-cheesy.
- Candy Darling archive goes to Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.
- The Day in Economic Suckage: Philly Museum and Detroit Institute of Arts make some bloody cuts. Plus: two Denver museums to merge. (Arts Journal.)
- I want, I need, I have to have…a $28 million arm chair: Yves Saint Laurent auction continues to set records. Art Observed has the comprehensive link dump.
- Own a Francis Bacon rug.
- Remember the salad days of 2008 when Banksy’s doodles used to fetch a quarter million pounds at auction? No longer. (World’s Best Ever.)
- Today’s Graff: David de la Mano in Spain.
- A trailer for Stacy Peralta’s Made in America, a doc about the history of L.A.’s Crips and Bloods — along with a list of preview screenings in various U.S. cities.
- SANAA, designers of the New Museum, to build the summer pavilion at London’s Serpentine Gallery.
- Green architecture for low-income families. (architecture.mnp.)
- Jonathan Jones of the Guardian selects his favorite album covers.
- Your moment of skateboarding dog.
Beast, in Miami. Saw this building-sized bomb while standing in line at Enriqueta’s for their super succulent pollo a la plancha. (Photo by C-M.)
- Vicodin earrings.
- Photographs of Oscar contenders prior to the Oscars. Makes me wish I could spend a whole day photographing Mickey Rourke.
- Congrats!! The Times of London picks the 100 best blogs in the blathersphere! On the list, art and architecture sites such as BLDGBLOG, Art Fag City and Modern Art Obsession. (The arts websites start here.) C-Mon on a separate list, of the 100 best blogs for wasting time.
- D.I.Y. paparazzi: Celebrities Twitter their lives away. (Art Fag City.)
- SFMOMA pairs art with music. Nice idea, but the whole exercise leaves me wondering: Do any brown people make music in the Bay Area? (Modern Art Notes.)
- The Free Store. (Eyebeam reBlog.)
- When times are bad, rich people hock their art. C-Monster hocks her guns.
- Recession? What Recession? Yves Sain Laurent’s Duchamp perfume pulls in $11 million at auction. More on the auction here. (Arts Journal.)
- The Met downsizes and the Las Vegas Museum of Art shuts down. And, unbelievably, on the verge of collapse, Long Island’s Vanderbilt Museum unearths a treasure buried in its walls.
- Must-read: A wonderful post by Eyeteeth’s Paul Schmelzer on art as protest over at Art21.
- Republicans happy to fund art in Iraq, but not in the U.S. Plus: more on the Iraq National Museum’s reopening.
- Small wonders.
- Contemporary art is “almost fraud” says some European dealer. And let’s keep it that way, people, because what else would I write about if it wasn’t? (Hrag Vartanian.)
- From the Department of WTF: Where else to park a train but between a doe-eyed manga girl’s legs? (Gracias, Big Papi G.)
- Speaking of Japan, if I had kids, I’d want to raise them there so that they could grow up watching stuff like this. DO NOT MISS the guitar-playing machine at the 2:45 mark.
- Today’s Graff: Le Dorian in Chile.
- The 10 Best Songs About Architecture. (architecture.mnp.)
- A blog that looks at the U.S./Mexico border wall as architecture. (ArchiDose.)
- Your moment of artspeak, Woody Allen style. (Mercy, Yvonne!)
Curtis, in Brooklyn. (Photo by Luna Park.)
- Bible Bars: A Biblical Alternative to Junk Food. For reals.
- Everything you want to know about deaccessioning but were afraid to ask.
- R.I.P. Coosje van Bruggen, Claes Oldenburg’s wife and collaborator.
- Touching Strangers: The photographs of Richard Renaldi. (Eyebeam reBlog.)
- Hrag Vartanian has a round-up from the New Orleans Biennial over at Art21 in one and two parts.
- What is jazz?
- The WSJ profiles Italy’s new culture czar (and former McDonald’s exec) Mario Resca. This story brought to mind Richard Lacayo’s post, from Monday, that discusses the political issues that invariably become entangled in any government culture minister-like position. (Culture Grrl.)
- The Art Newspaper outlines ten steps that Obama could take to renew the arts.
- Galleries as soviets: Edward Winkleman picks apart Charlie Finch.
- A crocheted coral reef.
- Salvador Dalí bento. See the full set of pictures here.
- The internet says “no.” (Art Fag City.)
- Related: High caffeine intake linked to hallucination process. (Eyebeam reBlog.)
- The Shepard Fairey Obama poster as political branding: “If, in four years, or eight, this image is still in circulation, and its statuesque vagueness remains all we know of the man, then we will regret the day we first saw it.” (Modern Art Notes.)
- Today’s Street Art: The shadow paintings of Pablo Herrero in Salamanca, Spain.
- Hilarious: How to cut a Banksy off a wall.
- Prison architecture, video game edition.
- For the design- and font-heads: A killer pop-up book. (Thank you, Shane!)
- Stewart shreds Bush’s recent media blitz. Thank you.
- Your moment of dog training.
Grasp. (Photo by Moshiano.)
- The New York Public Library is on Flickr. And they have some truly rad images.
- You’ve got 24 more hours to sign up for the C-Mon Holiday Giveaway Spectacular!
- MOCA MESS-a-palooza: LACMA offers the museum a merger. Cue the stories: NYT (which reports that Strick is negotiating the terms of his resignation), Culture Monster, Bloomberg and the official press release. More about the mess on KCRW, where various government officials voice their opposition to a LACMA merger.
- Related: the LAT’s Christopher Knight invests in Vija Celmins Night Sky brownies at the MOCA bake sale. Next time: please include notes on texture and flavor. (On a related note: my initial peevishness with the name aside, I gotta say that the Culture Monster blog has been killing it on this story. Nice work, you guys.)
- Photo Essay: Vik Muniz talks about his Artist’s Choice show at MOMA.
- From the Department of Second Acts: Tate Britain to restage a William Blake show that was panned 200 years ago.
- Just awesome: Mondrian’s Paris studio.
- NYC’s 31 Grand is closing.
- Save the Date: Art Blogger Think Tank on Jan. 18, in Brooklyn.
- Nude models on strike. In the nude!
- The Bubble Machine. A cool way to find exhibits in NYC. (MoMA’s Twitter.)
- The art of money. (ackackack.)
- Creepy Santa photos. Sorta related: Artists reinvent Santa.
- Plus: Nothing says Christmas cheer like a grenade ornament. Only €16. (NotCot.)
- Today’s Street Art: Gualicho in Buenos Aires.
- Wooden K-Swiss.
- Frank Lloyd Wright’s leaky Unity Temple receives a $200,000 grant for repairs.
- Please let the Bush regime end. Now. Seriously, was tax money spent on this? (Ana Marie Cox’s Twitter.)
- Speaking of tax money… here’s a piece of White House furniture I’d like to know the fate of: the Grizzly Bear Chair. (Mercy, Mlle. Connasse.)
- Your moment of Muppet chickens meet 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Artist unknown: desktop wallpaper on a Vandal Squad computer. (Photo by C-M.)
The NYPD Vandal Squad may be out to bust graffiti artists, but they aren’t above co-opting the imagery for their own purposes. This is a screen grab (aka a photo of my TV) from the graff documentary Infamy. In the film, the producers interview a member of New York City’s Vandal Squad and pan to his computer, revealing the above desktop wallpaper. (The lowrider pants showing off a smidgen of booty crack are a nice touch.)
In the meantime, if you’re at all into graffiti, definitely check out the film (now out on DVD), which is well made, features some excellent footage, and has interesting interviews with artists such as Earsnot, Claw, Saber and Jase. There are also some spectacular moments with “graffiti guerilla” Joe Connolly, L.A.’s single-minded, self-appointed, one-man buff team.
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