Golden Showers, Met Museum-style: Venus and Cupid, by Lorenzo Lotto, late 1520s. Part of the exhibit, Art and Love in Renaissance Italy, up through Feb. 16. (Surreptitious camphone picture by C-M.)
- “An ego the size of Manhattan.” El Schnabel on 60 Minutes. Safer asks about Robert Hughes at 8:24. Schnabel calls Hughes “a bum.” And then he can’t let it go. Priceless. (Art Observed.)
- The SAVE MOCA bake sale. Plus: the museum is not yet ready to have a garage sale with its art.
- Brooklyn Museum costume collection going to the Met.
- The New Yorker’s Peter Schjeldahl gives his best-in-show round-up for 2008.
- Christie’s to lower its prices and drop guarantees.
- Speaking of auctions… Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean glove to go on sale next April, along with a couple of thousand other items.
- A modest proposal to Don Fisher: Scan your art collection onto GAP clothes.
- From the Department of Internet Art Stars: Chrissie White.
- It’s all about video projections.
- Supertouch has lots and lots of photos from the Pettibon show at L.A.’s Regen Projects.
- Typewriter ribbon tins.
- Random quote about Twitter: “If I’m going to be addicted to something on the Internet, I’d rather it be pornography like a normal person.”
- What work of art would you transmit into space? My favorite response (of the ones I read): “The collected works of David Lynch. Maybe they’ll have some luck understanding them, because I certainly haven’t.” (Fimoculous.)
- Researchers have figured out a way to extract seen images straight from the brain.
- The Day in Art Merch: Spiral Jetty doily.
- I want, I need, I have to have…an Obama/Bambu parody shirt.
- Today’s Graff: RSN Crew in California.
- Eames chair tattoo.
- Draw Me: A history of commercial art.
- Your moment of Charlie Brown ad agency. (Mercy, Mlle. Connasse.)