The Digest. 05.19.10.
Phnom Penh graffiti, by Andrew Pope, as featured on his blog, Primitive Nerd. (Image courtesy of Pope.)
Congrats to Elizabeth for winning the Street Art New York Giveaway Extravaganza! I hope your class enjoys it.
- James Franco, author. (@giovannigf.)
- Must-read: A writer’s search for journalism in the age of branding. (@nicknotned.)
- Foreclosures lead to a pool skating renaissance in Fresno. (Coudal.)
- Disaster tourism. (Eyeteeth.)
- A David Lynch short in which Marion Cotillard is stalked by a Dior handbag.
- But will it include olfactory elements? CBGB’s graff-covered bathroom to be recreated by artist Justin Lowe at a Connecticut museum. (Arts Journal.)
- The future of the Jersey City Museum: Not so certain.
- The BP Grand Entrance at LACMA not looking so grand, reports the L.A. Times, using a pretty awesome art juxtaposition.
- On the other hand, LACMA’s Art of Two Germanys wins curators group award. Congrats to Stephanie Barron for putting on one bad-ass show.
- Arcimboldo, hot hot hot. (Modern Art Notes, which coincidentally, has a new RSS feed.)
- Sweet. God. Posh and Becks now an “art power couple.”
- Franz Kline’s booze bill and Leo Castelli’s to-do list. The Morning News has an excellent photo essay on lists. (Art Fag City.)
- Embroidered Wonder bread. (The Rumpus.)
- A Tumblr devoted to animated album covers. This Joy Division one is stonerrific. (Flaming Pablum.)
- Today’s Graff: Woaow getting geometric in Mexico.
- A fascinating story in New York Magazine about the complexity of building at the former World Trade Center site: “Everyone always says it’s like doing open-heart surgery on a marathon runner in the middle of a race.”
- Starchitects now doing set design.
- Don’t tell Kermit. Frank Gehry not into being green.
- Looks like Santiago Calatrava’s Chicago Spire is dead as a doornail: The development company that intended to build it has closed its sales office.
- A super-twisty airport tower in Berlin. Trippy.
- An app that de-Biebers the internet. Handy. (@destinationout.)