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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