Lin (?) in Rome, Italy. Holler if you know the name of the artist. Update: Apparently, it’s Linfa, of the 180 Crew. (Photo by C-M.)
- Homer’s Odyssey, Twitter version. (Thank you, Todd!)
- BLDGBLOG, in defense of Twitter: “Heraclitus would have had a f***ing Twitter feed.”
- The art industrial average is down. (AFC.)
- Art about money. Does it remain valuable in a recession?
- The Day in Sublime Lawsuits: Some guy is suing L.A.’s MOCA and Louis Vuitton for selling him repurposed Murakami handbag material as art. Dude: You bought a piece in a purse shop. What exactly were you expecting?
- Go East Young Man: Damien Hirst to put on biggest show ever in Kiev.
- Night of the living Koons. Plus, what promises to be an entertaining take on art in film: The Maiden Heist, which stars C-Mon fave Christopher Walken as a museum guard plotting to steal his favorite works with a couple of buddies.
- Wonder what conservators will think about all those steamy exhales: Yoga in art museums. More here.
- Italy spends 3.3 million euros on a crucifix that may or may not be a Michelangelo. Speaking of which, damn, do I love those Italian cop outfits.
- The photographs of Homer Page.
- Vintage Japanese sketches of insects under microscopes. Love the flea.
- While I was gorging on pizza and baba au rum: Zumthor won the Pritzker, Cotter and Farrell won Pulitzers and Adjaye won the commission to do the new Smithsonian.
- Skewville prints.
- Looking Around talks about Shepard Fairey, in one and two parts. Plus: the Fairey/AP smackdown gets surreal, and Hope in a can. (Unbeige.)
- Plastic bag art, illuminated.
- The two-point perspective in architecture. Very cool.
- Scary: A time lapse of 25 years of growth in Las Vegas.
- A low-lying desert house in Pachacamac, Peru. As a point of comparison: an image of the nearby pre–Columbian ruins.
- In further Andean cone news: A very horizontal building for an olive oil company in Chile makes agriculture look kinda hot.
- Frank Gehry is mad as hell over his Miami Beach project. And he’s not gonna take it anymore.
- Your moment of Good Foot. (Thank you, Dawn!)