South Slope, by F. Trainer. You can find his blog here.
- “You can’t fuck someone in the ass with a dildo, according to the current edition of the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, the American Heritage Dictionary, and Webster’s New World Dictionary.” (Thanks for the tip on this highly edifying read, Big Papi G.)
- The Miami Art Scene: not dead yet.
- In sort of related news: the Miami Art Museum is charging people $15/head to hear Pierre de Meuron talk about the museum’s grandiloquent new home. (Maybe this is how they’re raising their share of the millions necessary to build the sucker?)
- Bonus: Just in time for the Basel-Frazzle, my guide to Miami on Time.com – complete with Elian Gonzalez house, gas station dining and butt facials!!!
- Double plus: John Baldessari’s guide to L.A. Interesting tip: you can buy a grave-cleaning kit at Forest Lawn cemetary.
- NYC big on women artists this season.
- Umberto Eco to guest-curate at the Louvre.
- Cleaning time at the Frick.
- How big is the art market? Marian Maneker at the Art Market Monitor estimates that it’s currently about $15 billion a year – which puts it roughly on par with the pet food industry. Which leads me to today’s deep thought: I wonder how often pet food is used as an artistic material. (AFC.)
- Emperor Nero’s rotating dining room. (Arts Journal.)
- Yes, Mistress. (Conscientious.)
- Art as a physical part of early education.
- Tonight, in Brooklyn: a lecture by Annie Novak about the Greenpoint rooftop farm, at Pete’s Candy Store.
- Whoa! Greg.org has an awesome post on the military origins of the trippy design Jeff Koons painted on the yacht of New Museum trustee Dakis Joannou.
- Rio de Janeiro, Olympic City.
- Life in Guantanamo. Sorta related: a photo essay about the U.S. war in Afghanistan. (Looking Around.)
- Today’s Graff: Tosco in Lisbon.
- A monument to Pedro Almodovar.
- SANAA’s sensuous curves.
- Your moment of Frieze magazine’s freakiest correspondence. I confess: I’m the one who sent the missive about the pre-stained underwear. (@artnetdotcom.)