Os Gemeos at Galleria Patricia Mocida in Milan. See more flix at Fecal Face. (Photo by *fab*.)
- The Six Most Statistically Full-of-Shit Professions: Art Critics come in at Number Four. (Hat tip to @russelltrombone.)
- RIP J.D. Salinger.
- This violates my unspoken rule of never ever linking to the Huffington Post, but I had to share it because of its radioactive levels of ridiculosity: Duke Riley writes to Hugo Chavez.
- The Art Nerds Are Trash Talkin’!! Museums betting paintings for the Super Bowl. Bring. It. On.
- The Getty gets a trove of Manuel Alvarez Bravo photos.
- Speaking of which…Flashback: J. Paul Getty, Playboy columnist. (@KnightLAT.)
- “But is it rubbish?” Brit artists trash their art.
- Rendering Fear: a round-up of al-Qaeda graphic design. Seems to me like a number of these pieces owe a debt to Hollywood movie posters.
- Snow sculptures of comics and cartoon characters.
- Incisive Reportage: We went to the vagina show and what did we see? Vaginas. (The rug, it brought the room together.)
- El Bulli to shut down for a coupla years. (My El Bulli dinner report from 2008 here.)
- And because I’m on a food kick: My guide to Lima eats in Budget Travel.
- Ziggy and the Spiders do the dining car.
- Steam tunnel music.
- Today’s Graff: Faif gets skaterrific in Spain.
- Poster Boy got popped.
- Unhappy hipsters.