If you live in L.A., absolutely, positively go see Do Ho Suh’s pieces in Your Bright Future, the exhibit of contemporary Korean art at LACMA, up through Sept. 20. Above, an installation view of Fallen Star 1/5, and in the rear, Home Within Home. This image doesn’t do justice to the details inside the building. (See the photo large. Image courtesy of LACMA.)
- Demolition done wrong.
- Help save film at LACMA. Plus: People are, like, totally P.O.’d about the museum’s axed film program.
- A MoCA that is doing worse than L.A.’s MoCA.
- Pairing wine and art at the Art Institute of Chicago. (@artinstitutechi.)
- When nautical art imitates nautical art: Duke Riley’s upcoming naval battle at the Queens Museum sure sounds like an annual event that artist Marie Lorenz has been doing for half a dozen years.
- Shark week!!!
- Damien Hirst has a doppelganger in Slovenia.
- Bruce Nauman to get all Patrick Mimran over Pasadena.
- With the European Union banning the sale of incandescant light bulbs, what will happen to light art? Second item. (16 Miles.)
- From Cory Arcangel: Cats playing Schoenberg.
- Lonely nights.
- Street Rothkos.
- Today’s Graff: Brad Downey’s mosaic graffiti in Sweden. Whoa!
- The Obama/Joker poster: The LAT arts blog explains what it all means (or doesn’t). More here.
- Edward Lifson on NPR on the Guggenheim Museum’s 50th birthday. Love the vintage audio describing the building as “an inverted oatmeal dish.”
- Chicagoans weigh in on La Zaha’s larval pod.
- An insightful critique on the lack of public in public spaces at Thom Mayne’s S.F. Federal Building.
- Feral houses.
- The Habitat Machines of David Trautimas.
- Your moment of Sweet Home Alabama, mariachi style. (Coudal.)
