Yo slacker, if you can’t get away with cracking open a book at your desk, but still want to slack off and read at work, then try readatwork.com where several public domain classics are readable in a convincing XP-looking faux Powerpoint presentation.
As the site says, if you’re looking for a super cool watch, then you’ve just found the only place to buy one. At least the only place online in Engrish. Indeed, most of the watches at Tokyo Flash are super cool, though some of the watches, like the JLr7, are a little heavier on form than function. There are 12 lights for the hour, 3 for “quarter past”, “half past” & “quarter to” and 14 lights for the times in between. There are also 3 other lights which show the seconds ticking by. Yeah not that easy to tell the time at glance.
So who the hell does spend more than $100m on paintings in one week? A guy like the Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich. Buying both Francis Bacon
A few weeks ago in London Banksy’s Cans Festival took over an old train platform near Waterloo Station (with the approval of the manager of the site, Eurostar) and invited people to come down, look and add their own stencils. Check out these photos of the walls and the huge crowds of Londoners who went. And videos of the fest.
For some reason I don’t believe a previously unknown Van Gogh portrait of Dr. Paul Gachet has been found in a bank vault in Athens, Greece.
You’ll like this: MUTO a wall-painted animation made in Buenos Aires and in Baden. Read more about Blu. Don’t miss the drawings.
Website I’m check the most lately? Kanye West’s blog. No joke, it’s awesome.
Great article in New York Magazine describing the tensions between MoMA and P.S.1 and the impending retirement of its founding director Alanna Heiss. Over 32 years, she built P.S. 1 into one of the city’s most refreshingly unpredictable venues for contemporary art, drawing crowds of young, aggressively hip visitors to see its exhibitions and join in its boozy summer dance parties. But former MoMA curator Rob Storr says that while Alanna has built something that is very important to New York. She should be very proud of it and she should be lauded for it, but it has outgrown her, and she needs to graciously let it go. Since the merger with the Modern, he adds, it’s become a semi-museum institution, where what it really needs to be is the sexiest, fastest-moving, most dynamic non-museum institution in town.
You should look at Elizabeth Fleming’s photographs. With beautiful photos of the smallest details of family life in her series Life is a series of small moments, it’s almost as if Fleming is answering Sally Mann’s rustic, humid Southern life lived outdoors with her own suburban New Jersey interiors that are no less delicate and attentive.
Robert Rauschenberg has died at 82. Read his obituary in the New York Times. See MoMA’s collection of Rauschenberg works and take a look at his covers for Time Magazine.
David Byrne will be turning the Battery Maritime Building in Lower Manhattan into a very large musical instrument this Summer. Devices will be attached to the building structure — to the metal beams and pillars, the heating pipes, the water pipes — and are used to make these things produce sound.. The building will be open and free to be played every weekend for 11 weeks this Summer.
As copper price have risen to $4 per pound, scrap thieves are starting to nab public sculptures. The Orange County city of Brea has lost 3 public bronze sculptures in the last 18 months, reports the Wall Street Journal.
An exhibit of more than 100 drawings by Philip Guston opens today at the Morgan Library in NYC. It’s the first major survey of his drawings in more than 20 years and the only U.S. appearance for the exhibit. Nice review of the show in the New York Times.