Brick Wall, by Jules de Balincourt. From the new online archive of the Hoggard Wagner Art Collection. (Image courtesy of the Collection; see many more pix of the works en situ at The Flog.)
- The first Italian technology manuscript. I want a cart I can ride around in that flings stuff.
- Me, me, me on WNYC talking about the Whitney’s Collecting Biennials.
- Prospect.2 in New Orleans postponed due to sluggish fundraising. (@artnetdotcom.)
- Artists in Beijing beaten for protesting the demolition of their studios. (Hat tip, @russelltrombone.)
- The De la Cruz Collection officially opens in Miami.
- “Adverbsarially Yours”: Hatchets & Skewers takes down a hyper-florid Washington Post review. (@TylerGreenDC.)
- Man, do I love it when Jonathan Jones gets self-congratulatory.
- John Baldessari on appropriation. Sorta related: Fast Company looks at recent examples of design appropriation.
- Good question: Winkleman asks if the word ‘curate’ has been beaten to death.
- The best museum in America for sledding.
- Japanese woodblock prints of men posing as birds.
- That cheesy-rrific point where art school and Löwenbräu intersect.
- Proliferation, a piece that chronicles the growth of prison systems in the United States.
- Photo Essay: Mexico’s drug war. The mausoleums are crazy. (World’s Best Ever.)
- Order and chaos.
- 3-D tactile maps of coastlines created by the Inuit.
- Covers of Ramparts. I like the skull flag. (Coudal.)
- Nick Hornby guest DJs at KCRW.
- U.S. to build another fugly embassy/fortress.
- Must. Get. Floating fireplace. (Gracias, @skypulsemedia.)
- Cool Time-lapse: The surgical demolition of Cabrini-Green in Chicago.