Dumbo Labor Monument, by Ryan Frank, at the Dumbo Art Center’s Art Under the Bridge Festival in Brooklyn this past weekend. (Photo courtesy of Ryan Frank.)
- Gordon Matta Clark’s Splitting. (Update: for reasons that I do not understand, Art in America has removed this link from their site. Bogus!!!!!)
- The Art Industrial Average Has Fallen and it Can’t Get Up: The estimated value of contemporary art auctions in London has dropped 81% since last year. Plus: market for Asian antiques also takes a dive. (16 Miles.)
- Looks like SFMOMA will be holding on to GAP founder Don Fisher’s art collection. At least for now. In much bigger news: Fisher has passed away.
- That sublime point where J. Crew and Vito Acconci intersect. (Dear J. Crew: Please let me know when you do your blogger catalogue. I look fantastic in aubergine!)
- Tate Modern to stage Rob Pruitt/Jack Early show from the early ’90s that was once decried as racist. (Arts Journal.)
- Significant Objects, a blog that pairs thrift store purchases with creative writers, who invent a story for each item. The pieces are then put up for auction on e-Bay. Serious awesomeness. (Eyeteeth.)
- Cecily Brown on painting: “I can get too precious and have to force myself to put my paintings aside.” (MW Capacity.)
- Miranda July’s tribute to film extras.
- The Day in Extravagant Film Merchandising: A Where the Wild Things Are pop-up shop in L.A. (Fecal Face.)
- Mark Jenkins sculptures causing police panic. See full-size photos of his work here. (Ekosystem.)
- Blu at Deitch in Queens.
- Today’s Graff: Ovbal in Mexico. More here.
- Stencils of architecture.
- NYC graffiti featuring a swastika sparks hate crime investigation. (What You Write.)
- Dead All Along: cute video with Edward Gorey-inspired graphics.
- Frank Lloyd Wrights’ Unity Temple turns 100. And, no, it’s not aging gracefully.
- Renzo Piano’s mixed-use crater outside of Naples.
- The day in blingy Los Angeles gas stations. (Remember this one?) Leading me to today’s deep thought: are gas stations the true center of civic life in in post-war cities like L.A.?
- Your moment of dalmatian. (ackackack.)