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Brooklyn wall, with Celso, Cake and Chris Stain.
- An awesome Q&A with Gay Talese in the Paris Review. (@jennydeluxe.)
- Brush fire forces an evacuation at the Getty, which is scheduled to reopen today.
- China censors Ai Weiwei.
- Hrag Vartanian breaks down the numbers on arts stimulus funding, a lot of which goes to prop-up infrastructure at non-profits. Plus: he speaks with Reps. Louise Slaughter and Todd Russell Platt, of the House Arts Caucus, about the state of arts funding.
- L.A. Times questions “sketchy” OCMA sale in editorial.
- Van Gogh’s private letters to be exhibited at the Royal Academy in London early next year.
- Roman mosaic floor unveiled in Lod, Israel. (Arts Journal.)
- Opposition group to Christo project calles itself “Rags Over the Arkansas River.”
- Strangely fascinating: Blasting office chairs into space.
- More on plastics falling apart: Joseph Beuys’s pieces at the Walker Art Center are gettin’ drip-drip-drippy. (Eyeteeth.)
- Regina Hacket drops the atomic elbow on the TM Sisters.
- Free Jerry Saltz! (AFC.)
- The globalization of art. (To Fear It is To Know It.)
- Homecoming, photographs of vets.
- Boston’s Big Picture covers the clashes between Han Chinese and Uighurs in Urumqi, China. (Coudal.)
- Frida Kahlo’s lipstick traces.
- Foreclosure art.
- Rad Photo Essay: Buildings without walls.
- The rejected Wallpaper covers.
- Your moment of Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. What? Related: the Pizza Cone.
Hooray for the Red, White and Blue: All Supply, No Demand by Skewville in NYC. (Photo by shoehorn99.)
- Artist website blocked at art museum due to “adult content.”
- Gap founder gives up plan for a big museum in S.F.’s Presidio.
- Steals and Deals: Bernie Madoff associate Ezra Merkin forced to sell art collection.
- In sort of related news: Dutch arts official vanishes after the discovery that he had embezzled €15.5 million from an arts organization’s accounts. (Arts Journal.)
- The Vatican has announced that it has found what is believed to be a Michelangelo self-portrait. And a U.S. scholar claims to have found a self-portrait by Rembrandt as a 16-year-old. (Arts Journal.)
- Tickets and their machines.
- More reasons why the Saltz-master should have a blog.
- Roast Beef Dinner: A cool Thiebaud in Toledo.
- The Day in Fictional Bankruptcies.
- Ooh ooh, the Deutsche Bank Art Mag story about bloggers is also available in English. And, guess what? We’re “controversial!”
- When architectural installations imitate Tony Cragg.
- The Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African photographs, a searchable database. (Coudal.)
- A previously unpublished view of the Tienanmen “Tank Man.”
- Today’s Street Art: Lister in Sydney.
- Graffiti as proselytizing tool: A Q&A with Jesus Saves.
- For the Typography Geeks: A new font based on Brazilian Pixaçao graffiti.
- The architecture of Michael Jackson’s Neverland compound. Photo essay here.
- Trippy: the glass balcony at the Sears Tower.
- An installation made with hula hoops.
- Your moment of breakdancing Stormtrooper. (Gracias, Celso.)
Peter Schjeldahl reviews Shepard Fairey’s solo at the ICA in this week’s New Yorker, describing it as “strangely wholesome.” Read the full review here.
Celso. (Photo by Punk Dolphin.)
Hey Folks: After today we’re shuttin’ down the taco stand and taking some much-needed time off for the holidaze. See you after New Year’s! xox, C.
- Knitting for psychos. (Hrag Vartanian.)
- The art industrial average is so far down the crapper it’s gonna take a Trainspotting-like move to dislodge it. And it ain’t any easier for museums. Related: Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin in Miami to close. (Art Observed.)
- MOCA’s problems aren’t just financial. They’re architectural, reports the LA Times’ Christopher Hawthorne.
- Dear NYT Arts Section: For the love of all that is sacred, please hire someone to make your Twitter feed at least mildly interesting.
- Late addition: Art Fag City is having a fundraiser to keep her site going. (It’s a non-profit donation, under the umbrella of Momenta Art — so it’s tax deductible.)
- The hanging of President Bush, National Portrait Gallery edition.
- The map quilts of Leah Evans. (NotCot.)
- Art Merch Alert: Tom Sachs has an online store. And he’s selling hand-embossed skateboard wheels and custom sharpies (???) for $12. (Art Observed.)
- The (Exhausting) Day in Year-End Round-Ups: New York Mag’s Saltz-master and Modern Art Notes‘ Tyler Green give us their top ten, the LAT’s Christopher Knight gives his best and worst, Richard Dorment at the Telegraph rounds up the worst, and Holland Cotter and Roberta Smith of the NYT do their year-end thing, as does Martin Gayford at Bloomberg. Last, but not least: Peter Plagens picks the most representative work of art of the Bush era (and it’s a Koons!…which he describes as “a cloying cliché presented as profundity”). Stay-tuned for my obligatory year-end list this afternoon!
- If you’re in SF and you have nothing to do over the holidays, hit Gallery Paule Anglim to check out Bruce Conner’s Looking for Mushrooms, one of the most stonerrific pieces of video art ever. And don’t forget to pack the Maui Wowie.
- Lovin’ Design Observer’s weekly image picks.
- A 1950s illustration Flickr pool. Love the German Pez ad. (NotCot.)
- Today’s Graff: Slow in Budapest.
- Thanks to Wooster Collective for the nice year-end shout-out! Sweet…
- The joy of not being sold anything.
- Princess Zaha’s giant clam will tour the world no longer due to financial troubles. (Hrag Vartanian.)
- Related: The NYT reports how starchitecture was all fun and games, until the money ran out.
- An inventive reuse of Israeli military architecture. Think bingo.
- Photo of the Day: The Sydney Opera House under construction in 1973.
- Trippy floors: the Casa Yaya in Madrid.
- Your moment of Jingle Bells played on 49 microwave ovens. (Coudal.)
Superman lives, in Williamsburg. (Photo by C-M.)
- Perfect photo essay for a rainy Monday morning: New York when it was ratty, by lensmaster Jill Freedman.
- Sign the petition to save L.A. taco trucks! (Read all about it in the L.A. Times.)
- Most gag-o-rific art sentence of the day, in a story about how various Miami folk, including developer Craig Robins, are going to start a free graduate art program called Art + Research: “The son of a local developer, Robins is a Miami Beach native who’s always had an interest in art (he wanted to trade in his graduation Rolex for a Salvador Dalí print).” What do you think I can get a for a water-resistant Timex?
- Maya Lin’s Confluence project in Oregon is looking for volunteers.
- Photos from the Fluids exhibition at LACMA.
- Berlin bunker converted into art exhibit space. (Via AO.)
- Because the world really needs more problematizing and paradigm inversion: The Top 10 universities for art history “productivity.” In other words: the universities churning out coma-inducing art speak in the heftiest quantities.
- Sculpture of the day: Mike Ross’s Big Rig Jig at Coachella.
- Gorgeous and Gego-esque: Artist Shirazeh Houshiary’s soon-to-be unveiled window at St-Martin-in-the-Fields in London.
- Carlson & Company: The art fabricators that produce art on an industrial scale…such as giganto balloon dogs.
- Lori Nix’s meticulously constructed miniatures.
- Portfolio has a good timeline of how art dealer Larry Salander got into a financial hole. Interesting fact: It seems that his bank continued to loan him money, even when they knew he was in over his head. (Via AO.)
- An absolutely fascinating photo essay about a woman who sews robes for the KKK. (Via Hrag Vartanian.)
- An analysis of the Flickr School of photography.
- A profile of paper artist Jen Stark.
- The Great Big Interwebs Catches the Attention of the Dead-Tree Types: The Kalm Report profiled in the L.A. Times.
- R.I.P. Surrealist painter Enrico Donati.
- Street art of the Day: Momo in London.
- Photos from Super Combo at chashama ABC Gallery in NYC.
- Espo on the loose in Dublin.
- Sucka Pants has a good photo set of the Rockaway Armada show going up at MassMoCA.
- A Q&A with Ghost in the Seattle Times (via WYW).
- Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish Museum to open in San Fran in June.
- Buildings that sprout things.
- In a related story: NYC is looking for designs for their annual green building competition. (Via Archidose.)
- The Chicago Board Options Exchange vandalizes Wrigley Field.
- The online project journal for MoMA’s prefab house exhibit. (Via Archidose.)
- The Klein Bottle House by McBride Charles Ryan, outside of Melbourne.
- Too cool, literally: Frozen waves in Michigan. (Via AFC.)
- Your moment of Cribs, all Star Trek like.
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