Tag Archive for 'LA River'

On the L.A. River: Colt 45, Haeler, Rich, Slye, Tank, Bonks, Gash. (Photo by C-M.)

• North Korean amusement parks. (Coudal.)
• “I have always wanted to have sex in a museum.” Who doesn’t?
• The Met’s Philippe de Montebello gets his own TV show. Culture Grrl is bummed she’s not co-hosting.
• Bust out the microwave popcorn! Joan Allen to play Georgia O’Keeffe in Lifetime movie. Jeremy Irons to co-star.
• St. Louis Art Museum postpones expansion plans. More on museums and the economy.
• Video of the Day, courtesy of The Moment: William Eggleston’s Stranded in Canton.
• Switzerland returns a buttload of antiquities to Italy (via A.J.). In a related story: the NYT reviews Sharon Waxman’s book on the whole antiquities battle. The review is mixed.
• Paddy Johnson curates the latest image round-up for Add-Art’s ad blocking software, The Future of Online Advertising.
• Can we own Canadians? A nice comeback to that hateful piece of legislation known as Prop 8.
• Gossip Girl working on its hipster cred by dropping references to Ryan McGinley.
• Gwyneth Paltrow, cultural guide.
• Today’s Graff: Espo in Dublin.
• Adam Neate will leave a £1 million worth of paintings around London to be taken home by whoever gets to ‘em first. (Arts Journal.)
• Santiago Calatrava’s troubled Chicago Spire: what went wrong. 
• Coop Himmelb(l)au’s L.A. High School #9: It could also be an off-shore oil rig.
• David Chipperfield is, like, totally over starchitecture.
• In an unrelated story: L.A. Noir-chitecture, the tour.
• Bizarre Coincidence: Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish Museum and Michael Heizer’s 1968 land art sculpture, Rift 1.
• Where architecture meets basket weaving: The XVI Chilean architecture biennal installation by Felipe Assadi.
• Your moment of clumsy TV news moments.