Route 66, by F. Trainer. (Image courtesy of F. Trainer.)
Happy birf-day to The Recluse.
- Radiology art. (Thanks, tabgirl.)
- Art and the legal world: Edward Winkleman provides an exhaustive round-up.
- Shawn Mortensen’s photographs of well-known artists. (NotCot.)
- An interesting panel about rights issues related to the use of photography online is coming up in L.A. next week. Should be an interesting one given the whole cease-and-desist situation between the New York Times and Apartment Therapy.
- Santa Monica’s Bergamot Station art gallery district may be in serious trouble.
- The Saltz-master on the issue of university degrees. (Art Fag City.)
- Awesome video of Sol Lewitt’s wall drawings at the federal building in Springfield, Mass. (Modern Art Notes.)
- Marilyn Minter’s upcoming Times Square videos. Woulda been better if she’d used a pug.
- Rare 1840s daguerreotype of New York—showing Broadway as a country road—goes to auction.
- Art Bum is Facebook friends with a famous critic.
- Top 10 time lapse nature videos. The mushrooms and the Earth rise are pretty badass. (reBlog.)
- The Vietnam War, according to Eddie Adams.
- An 18-year-old in Berkshire England secretly painted a 60-foot penis on the roof of his parents house. Even better: it ran for a year before his parents found out. (Ekosystem.)
- Banksy’s outdoor work in Bristol is framed to protect it from vandals.
- Today’s Graff: Saner in Mexico City.
- Co-opting graffiti: London artist Ryan Frank gets taggers to do his painting for him. (reBlog.)
- L.A. debates the merits — or lack thereof — of humungo commercial signage.
- NPR profiles Julius Shulman.
- The developer of Santiago Calatrava’s Chicago Spire is turning to the AFL-CIO in hopes of funding. In the meantime, the project is on hold. (ArchDaily.)
- Time heals all architecture: Corbu-inspired brutalist architecture is getting its moment of appreciation in England.
- Your moment of grad students, Simpsons style.
