Cash for your Warhol, by Hargo. From an upcoming exhibit at the Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, Mass. (Image courtesy of Cash for Your Warhol.)
Happy Birf-day to my boo.
- Pee and poo. (Brainwaves Toys via ackackack.)
- Note to Self: Must start tour company dedicated to visiting the key sites of Colombian narchitecture.
- Highly fascinating post by Ed Winkleman on how art ages.
- A profile of Hans Obrist, celebrity curator. (Art Fag City.)
- Tyler Green isn’t sure about the Hirshhorn’s proposed #bulbousmembrane.
- Jen Graves Art Basel write-ups are badass…in one and two parts.
- Writer says that writing about an actor visiting a museum is déclassé. Then writes 250 words about it. Awesome.
- It’s amazing how something as simple as cake can by hyper-intellectualized. Though I gotta say, I woulda so loved to have eaten a slice of that Mies Barcelona couch.
- Cuban television sets.
- Microbe art. Love the bioluminescent bacteria. (Arts Journal.)
- Photo Essay: Three days in California.
- The Day in Art Merch: Kehinde Wiley soccer cleats. Plus: A Yayoi Kusama puzzle.
- The Best New Blogs of 2009, according to the Bygone Bureau.
- Today’s Street Art: A leaf installation by SpY in Madrid.
- Coulda used biscotti: Ai Wei Wei fills the pools at Mies Van Der Rohe’s Barcelona pavilion with milk and coffee.
- Don’t call Frank Gehry a starchitect. Seriously. Plus: he defends Prince Charles. Sorta. (Hrag Vartanian.)
- Five things you don’t know about La Zaha. Plus: preview photos of her MAXXI pad in Rome and how her buildings resemble snack foods. (The Funyuns reference is inspired.) Last but not least: a design schematic of her Eli Broad museum in Michigan, which has gotten the go-ahead.
- More End-of-Year Top 10: Christopher Hawthorne’s top architecture moments for ‘09. Digging that Annenberg community beach house.
- A look behind the knock-offs: The rise and fall of Design Within Reach. Interesting story.
- Spilled milk Hasta las narices.
