Mulberry Tree, 1889, by Vincent Van Gogh, at the Norton Simon in Pasadena. (Photo by C-M.)
- The McRib locator. Handy. (Coudal.)
- Art Fag City evaluates the worst of the web in 2008. It’s a juicy one, folks. Do not miss.
- Me, this morning.
- You’ve got through the weekend to sign up for the latest C-Mon Giveaway Extravaganza.
- Plus: More me…blogging on Art21 about the photographs of an Army serviceman in Iraq. Check it out.
- Beethoven, as interpreted by Charlie Brown. (Gracias, Big Papi G.)
- Love the caftan: A couple of pix from the Hirshhorn Museum’s opening, in 1974.
- R.I.P Andrew Wyeth.
- Nobody’s home.
- Vladimir Putin, (bad) painter. (Arts Journal.)
- Create your own Shepard Fairey-style Obamicon. (Hrag Vartanian.)
- Related: Shepard Fairey interviewed by Stephen Colbert, who confesses his admiration of the “Obey” posters because, without them, he’d “forget to obey.” (Fairey barely gets a word in edgewise.) Plus: The Philadelphia Inquirer tracks down the pic used as the basis for the famous poster.
- “7 Things I Learned From Working on a Pot Farm.” Plus: CNBC.com has a breathtaking gallery of medicinal weed. (World’s Best Ever; ackackack.)
- Balloon animals humping. Soooo Jeff Koons. (Kottke.)
- Today’s Graff: Dack and Fabula in Moscow.
- A trailer for a documentary about pixaçao, the São Paulo graffiti. (Só português.) (Ekosystem.)
- A building in Germany that looks kinda Star Trek.
- Archinect took the pulse of the architecture industry and it’s faint: “Unless one is happy and married to money this is going to be painful,” said one respondent to the survey. (architecture.mnp.)
- R.I.P. Jan Kaplický. A few more images of his crazy buildings here and here.
- Grist evaluates Obama’s urban policy picks. The reviews are mixed. (The Skyline.)
- Design Observer lists 10 objects in need of a redesign.
- Your moment of Dacron Polyester.