Not on Sale, by Skewville. Outside of Woodward Gallery on the Lower East Side. On view through April. (Image courtesy of Skewville.)
- Brian Droitcour has been reviewing galleries on Yelp and it’s fucking hilarious. And I’m burning with jealousy that I didn’t think of this first.
- Pundit tracker. They should have this for art writers. I’m sure I’d be toast.
- Alan Turing and his tragic end: A stunning Radiolab piece about the man who conceived of computers.
- A couple of weeks back I was reading Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner and publicly wondered on Twitter why so much contemporary American fiction is peopled by adolescent man-children. @tejalrao responded with this excellent essay.
- Nuanced bit on Thomas Kinkade versus the Art Industry, by Doug Harvey. (Even if the white type on black background seems designed to leave you half blind.)
- An informative wrap-up on a couple of panels at New York Law School about the boundary between appropriation and plagiarism.
- Speaking of which, a fascinating sidebar related to copyright: who owns the text of our laws?
- Welcome to my new timesuck: the ICAA and the MFAH in Houston have put all kinds of tasty Latin American art documents online. (@tylergreendc.)
- Wish I was going to be in Peru in time to see this: A group of artists is going to be painting murals at Cerro de Pasco, a polluted, high-altitude town that sits alongside an open-pit mine producing zinc and silver. The mining company is trying to relocate the city (which has more than 100,000 residents) so that it can expand its operations.
- Speaking of which: the organizers of the Cerro de Pasco event should invite Elliot Urcuhuaranga. His stuff is beautiful.
- Restoration Hardware goes graffiti. (@notrobwalker.)
- Helpful tip for the art media: If you want to get the press office at the L.A. Museum of Contemporary Art to actually return your calls, tell them you want to do a spread on Jeffrey Deitch’s house.
- Exit Art and its final show. I’m gonna miss this scrappy space. (Hyperallergic.)
- Saving brutalism: not so easy.
- 20 arts institutions on Tumblr.
- On biophony, the sound of all living organisms.
- Sort of related: Cage on Cage — Nicolas does John. (Thank you, Will Brand.)
