Christopher Knight smacks down Time magazine’s person of the year cover, which was illustrated by Shepard Fairey.- Artist William Powhida on same via Twitter: “By effectively tying protest to such a recognizable aesthetic, TIME gives #ows the symbolic individual leadership it has resisted.”
- John Berger on how he’s still seeing new things in Cezanne.
- I love that Artinfo’s Coline Milliard essentially asked artist Roger Hiorns how he felt about my criticism of the “September 11″ show at PS1. [Image: The "September 11" installation of Hiorns, Untitled, 2008 with George Segal, Woman on a Park Bench, 1998.]
- The Stranger’s Jen Graves introduces me to a couple painters with whom I was unfamiliar, motivates me to see, learn more.
- In conjunction with her upcoming Philadelphia Museum of Art survey, Zoe Strauss is putting her pictures on billboards all over Philly. She made a blog about that and it is awesome.
- Make your own holiday cards with art from LACMA’s collection. Love this. I’d use the Hendrick Avercamp.
- Someone should totally tell Boing Boing about what the Oakes Brothers are doing at the Getty.
- Who knew that International Klein Blue has a sound?
- SFMOMA has re-designed its Open Space blog. Sweet.
- Andrew Russeth details the Frick’s new gallery.
December 15, 2011, 8:26 am
