Monkey at MoMA, a Flickr set of a stuffed monkey’s adventures at the museum. Found via MoMA’s Twitter feed. Pure awesomeness. (Photo by josespiano.)
- A Tetris attack in Sydney.
- The Times of London names the director of the British Museum Briton of the Year.
- By the way, if anyone happens to be visiting the British Museum and snaps surreptitious photos of the Damien Hirst pieces, please send them to me. I will publish them. (Though I may ask for donations when I get sued.)
- NPR reports on museums getting hit by the bad economy, which includes talk about the deaccessions at the National Academy.
- Bummer: Art fairs aren’t dead yet, reports the Telegraph. (Arts Journal.)
- Advice to museums using Twitter. I’d like to add: Don’t use it as an opportunity to link to every article ever written about your institution. If I wanted a PR report, I’d ask for one.
- LACMA is looking for your photos of Chris Burden’s Urban Light installation for a digital exhibit. Here are my submissions. (We got seriously yelled at by the guard for the photo in which we’re standing on the lightposts. But how else were we supposed to do our Singin’ in the Rain imitation?)
- In L.A.: Mural=Vandalism. Hosers.
- Charlie Finch’s 2009 art industry crystal ball. (World’s Best Ever.)
- Assessing the Bush years. Sorta related: The Hollow Men.
- I heart Japanese television: The Sea Angel.
- Today’s Graff: Keep in S.F.
- New book: Bay Area Graffiti by Steve Rotman and Chris Brennan.
- A lacy skateboard. (NotCot.)
- Tito-era restaurant reborn as fancy gym in Serbia.
- Eero Saarinen’s 1960 American embassy in London is at the center of a growing preservation battle.
- Is there a Stonehenge beneath Lake Michigan?
- Hypothetical architecture: Adaptive reuse of crashed starships.
- Dogs Chasing My Cars in the Desert. (ackackack.com)
- Your moment of People Are Strange.