Tone, Cense and Skrew in North Philly. (Photo by Luna Park.)
- Today’s post-apocalyptic animated video: Future Man by Ryo Hirano.
- Jeff Koons, art collector. My favorite line: Randy Kennedy describing Koons’ studio as having “the bright, hygienic aura of a pharmaceutical lab or a high-end car-detailing shop.”
- Sorta related: An adulatory profile of New Museum trustee and Jeff Koons boat-owner Dakis Joannou. Interesting fact: Koons designed his daughter’s wedding cake.
- Plus, more rich-people folly: Elton John’s shower art.
- Museums see rise in attendance. But bigger crowds don’t necessary translate into more revenue. (Arts Journal.)
- Lost Haitian Art: Writer Amy Wilentz gathers images of destroyed Haitian cultural treasures on Flickr. Join the group if you have pix. (Intelligent Travel.)
- Laser surgery technique used for tattoo removal is now being used to clean sculptures. (Arts Journal.)
- Marina Abramovic has a pimple. (Would that make a great name for a band, or what?)
- The case of David Burdeny and Sze Tsung Leong: Did one photographer plagiarize the other?
- Sepia Town.
- How the brain processes sarcasm. Or why you need both sides of your brain to understand C-Monster.
- Awesomely Groovy Photo Essay: The Mali pix of Malick Sidibé.
- The Boneyard.
- Wiping turtles butts — and other things National Geographic photographers do.
- There’s a free screening of Whole Train tonight at the Goethe-Institut in L.A. at 7pm.
- Today’s Street Art: Luz Interruptus, Literature versus Traffic, in Brooklyn.
- A house floats out to sea following the quake in Chile. It pains me to see this. Plus: the earthquake released 50 gigatons of energy.
- Aggrandizing architecture porn alert!!! The trailer for How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster, a new flick about the Dark Lord Norman Foster, which seems to be equal parts Raise the Red Lantern and Koyaanisqatsqi – without any disagreeable-looking sweaty labourers, of course. (Coudal.)
- Very cool: The VitraHaus, an architecture museum in Germany designed by Herzog & de Meuron.
- Ice skating!!! Makin’ me wish I had a spangly body suit.
Dismemberment of Jeanne D’Arc by Anish Kapoor, at this past last May’s Brighton Festival. You know you want to see it large. See a photo essay of the construction of the piece here. (Photo by Luna Park.)
Congrats to Eugenio for winning the C-Mon Giveaway Extravaganza of Marc Johns’ Serious Drawings!
- All the artspeak you’ve never wanted: Art Baloney, a new blog devoted to chronicling the tortured, the contorted and the convoluted in art writing. Send nominations to artbaloney [at] yahoo [dot] com
- OH YES! Bravo issues casting call for new art reality show. (Dear Bravo, Who do I gotta blow to be a judge? I can be the Bruno of art reality TV: short, funny, ethnic, handy with malaprops. Please let me know where I can submit my reel.) Interestingly, ABC’s Wife Swap is also doing some casting, and they’re looking for a family that’s “passionate about graffiti as an art form.”
- A two-fer: Picking out art for the White House + Philip Smith’s letter to Art in America about being excluded from the Pictures Generation show at the Met.
- Plus, more art controversy: The Saltz-master meets with MoMA curator Ann Temkin to discuss the lack of vag on the museum’s 4th and 5th floors.
- The art industrial average is limp: Bidding thin at Christie’s auction in London.
- Museum musical chairs: Ann Goldstein leaves L.A.’s MOCA for the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. More here. And: Timothy Rub departs Cleveland to take over the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
- Hugh Pearman calls for the return of the Elgin Marbles in the Times of London.
- Koons on Jackson: “I wanted to show Michael as a contemporary Christ figure: I wanted to give the viewer a sense of a spiritual authority.” Uh-huh.
- Chelsea in 1996.
- From the Guy Who Brought You Iraq: The Gen. Tommy Franks Leadership Museum. Donate now! (What a Lovely Recession.)
- Felix Salmon on why artists should get paid.
- Ryan McGinness talks about his relationship with plants.
- Submit yer blog! Dazed Digital is accepting submission for their new blog awards.
- Pina Bausch, R.I.P.
- A swaying tree sculpture. (ackackack.)
- Today’s Street Art: Zukclub in Russia.
- The Day in Burned Out Buildings: The ashy shell of Rem Koolhaas’s Mandarin Oriental still stands in Beijing. China and the World thinks it’s because the Chinese government has yet to decide what to do.
- Super FAIL! An epic building collapse in Shanghai.
- An installation made with red umbrellas.
- Your moment of a brief history of art.
Dr. Sex and Hour in L.A.. (Photo by Luna Park.)
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.
UFO 907, by Luna Park. (All images courtesy of Factory Fresh and Luna Park.)
Sam Horine, Jake Dobkin, Street Stars and the super awesome Luna Park are havin’ a show at Factory Fresh, in Brooklyn, and it kicks off tonight. I can’t be there because I’m currently battling the giant burritos of Southern California. But I nonetheless managed to lay my hands on a few of their photographs in advance of their opening tonight. Here’s a preview from the exhibit, Quality of Life. Break a leg, guys!
The show opens tonight at 6pm and is up until October 31st.
Click on images to supersize. More after the jump.
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