South by Rail, by Andrew Pope. See the full series on his website, primitivenerd.com. (Image courtesy of Andrew Pope.)
- How to Redneck. (World’s Best Ever.)
- At the Guggenheim: Coffee as art. Make mine a cortado.
- The MOCA Mess: The board shoulda seen this calamity coming, reports the L.A. Times: “By mid-2001, as the economy slumped toward recession, independent auditors warned that MOCA’s reserves had fallen $3.8 million below ‘the level required by donor stipulations.’“
- In other museum mismanagement messes: The Basque parliament is investigating the Guggenheim Bilbao’s problematic financials.
- Saatchi setting attendance records at his new London gallery.
- Ten years after graduation, art history majors make more money than forestry majors. But not as much as philosophy majors. Time to bust out the Nietzsche, eggheads! (Thank you, Robin.)
- Dale Chihuly has kicked in some serious cash for Obama’s inaugural.
- Plus: Two U.S. Mayors list museums—in Philly and Miami—as infrastructure projects for the proposed economic recovery program.
- Severed heads in museums. (Marshall Astor.)
- Neckface, the video. Includes charming footage of his decaying toe nails.
- Today’s Graff: Uneone in Houston.
- The Day in Art Merch: Futura snowboards.
- Pussy Pop and butt glue. (matthewgallaway and Gearfuse.)
- Not a moment too soon: Fentress unveils their concept images for a redesigned LAX. (Unbeige.)
- A fascinating landscape architecture story about the future of Fresh Kills, the Staten Island landfill.
- The NYT on I.M. Pei’s Qatari museum: “The ideals it embodies — that the past and the present can co-exist harmoniously — are a throwback to a time when America’s overseas ambitions were still cloaked in a progressive agenda.” Slideshow here.
- The Chicago Trib’s Blair Kamin gives his run-down of the best architecture of ’08. On the list: Yale’s Paul Rudolph Hall and a coupla thingies in China.
- An interesting conceit, even if I’m not sold on the functionality of the layout: Tomorrows Thoughts Today, a site that organizes its post according to whether they’re “fast,” “medium” or “slow” thoughts. (Life Without Buildings.)
- A BetaMaxMas. (Mercy, Mlle. Connasse.)
- Your moment of jizz in my pants.
