Extasy Effect 12 by Rafal Karcz. (Image courtesy of Rafal Karcz.)
- The best thing you’ll see all day: We love museums, but do they love us back?
- Life Under the Cover of Night: The photographs of Jerry Berndt. See his website here.
- A report on damage to Gaza’s cultural sites. (Illicit Cultural Property.)
- I love it when people confuse art with garbage: A public sculpture from the California Biennial removed by street maintenance workers. But is returned after someone notices.
- German Federal Archives provide 100,000 images to Wikimedia Commons!>
- The New Yorker profiles Walton Ford. (Full text available to subscribers only.)
- Serra storage.
- The Rose’s Thorn: Roberta Smith gives Brandeis the atomic knee drop, describing the university’s plan as “a desperate quick fix rather than a rational decision” and noting that “the rapidly sinking art market [makes] this an idiotic time to sell art.” Plus, more on the story: Art Fag City, in one and two parts, Culture Grrl and Modern Art Notes.
- In related news: NYC museums are hurting, L.A.’s MOCA announces layoffs (MAN) and Hrag Vartanian reports on the state of the market. Even the Daily Beast is blabbing about the art market.
- Museum Director Musical Chairs: L.A. MOCA’s Jeremy Strick lands at the Nasher in Dallas.
- Late addition: The NY Post reports on museum director executive pay. Interesting fact: the Museum of Natural History’s director gets an apartment and — get this: a maid — as part of her compensation package. That’s so 1990s Wall Street! (Thanks for the heads up, Luna Park.)
- A profile of Emily Jacir.
- The Wall Street Journal is no fan of graffiti. (To Fear Is To Know.)
- The urban landscapes of Stefan Ruiz.
- Today’s Graff: Los Awesome in L.A. by Augor, Rime and Revok. Well done!
- Graffiti needlepoint.
- Brazilians are trying to protect Oscar Niemeyer’s architecture…from Oscar Niemeyer. (architecture.mnp.)
- Frank Lloyd Wright novel smackdown in the NYT!
- A gnarly glacier viewing platform in Austria.
- The perils of zero urban planning: Dubai swimming in its own poop. (architecture.mnp.)
- Your moment of flashback to 1981, when accessing a newspaper on a computer took two hours and cost $10.