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Wednesday links

  • Nicholas Tinari takes to the Philly Inky op-ed page to say the right things about Philadelphia’s dismantling of and disregard for the Barnes Foundation.
  • LACMA just acquired a painting painted by Goya’s cubicle-mate (sort of).
  • The Tate is exploring mapping its collection in all kinds of interesting ways.
  • How artist Steve Roden found painter Frederick Hammersley. Great stuff. If I were a betting man, I’d wager on a Hammersley retrospective as part of PST II.
  • Carolina Miranda has a new shorthand for the Hirshhorn’s long-proposed ‘bubble’ thingy: “Giant turquoise poo.”
  • Speaking of the Hirshhorn, its new website is a mistake. It spins, it flickers, it flashes in ways that make the visitor regret having had lunch. It is harder and slower to search the collection, and you get smaller images when you do.
  • It’s nice to see that bylines are back on the LAT’s Culture Monster blog.

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  • Christopher Knight smacks down the speaker of the Missouri state house of representatives, who has commissioned a sculpture of Rush Limbaugh. Epic. And stay for the end, where Knight ties the whole thing up in a most remarkable fashion. Mega-dittos.
  • C-Monster brings us the latest incredibly tacky gift shop that the Philadelphia Museum of Art has assembled for its latest blockbuster show. The latest in one of my favorite long-form photo subjects — ‘tacky PMA gift shop’ should be a pre-set tag in every WordPress template — in all digital publishing.
  • This Chloe Wyma piece on Yelping New York art galleries is pretty entertaining. I imagine that it left a few bloggers wincing, too.
  • A major Katharina Grosse installation is coming to the under-construction Cleveland MOCA, reports the Plain-Dealer’s Steven Litt. [via] I know that men get all those big, splashy, permanent art museum commissions (ahem), but here’s hoping Grosse picks up a few.
  • Joerg Colberg has a nice two-fer on Rineke Dijkstra, the subject of a career survey at SFMOMA. Here’s Colberg’s write-up on Dijkstra and Botticelli and here’s a fascinating little hit on how he had an interesting time finding the, er, right image for his post.
  • Doesn’t Gothic architecture look really, well, Islamic? [via]
  • The Getty just bought a rare drawing by 15thC Florentine master Piero del Pollaiuolo. [Above.] Getty assistant curator of drawings Julian Brooks tells the behind-the-scene story of the museum’s auction purchase, complete with details of auction-style dirty tricks.
  • This is fantastic, and not just because it puts Rick Santorum in context: John Yau breaks down Alec Soth’s hermit pictures on Hyperallergic.
  • This is fantastic, and not just because it puts investment art-bankers in the same place John Yau put Rick Santorum: Felix Salmon cites Gerhard Richter and Diego Velasquez in explaining why the art market is a fool’s game.
  • MOCA’s blog is doing bang-up work on the museum’s upcoming Cai Guo-Qiang show. Wish more museums did this kind of thing around upcoming exhibitions.
  • Jonathan Jones explains what Angelina Jolie’s leg has in common with Renaissance art.
  • Over at PORT, this earth work by Brooklyn-based Rainy Lehrman looks brilliant. And vaguely tiramisu-like.
  • Little moment of happiness for me: The MAN Podcast with Larry Bell prompted MAMFW to take another look at its beautiful (and beautifully installed) Bell — and at the museum’s history with the artist.
  • Each Wednesday afternoon I tweet/Facebook out a little tease about the guest of the following day’s Modern Art Notes Podcast. In a related story, this would be a very, very good week to begin to follow me on Twitter and/or on Facebook.

Tuesday links

  • The ICA Philadelphia’s blog Miranda has an interesting rundown of Charline von Heyl’s recent lecture at the ICA. (Here’s The MAN Podcast featuring von Heyl.)
  • There’s so much about Pierre Bonnard I don’t know or understand, including: When the Phillips Collection promises a Valentine’s Day love story about Pierre Bonnard, will it be about his wife, Marthe, or his long-term lover, Renee Monchaty? (News peg for this post: This exhibition at the Phillips.) And this art historical tidbit that confounds me: Picasso has been nicked by generations of art historians for picking up a young, 17-year-old Marie-Therese Walter. (That’s Picasso biographer John Richardson’s assignation of her age, anyway.) Bonnard, er, discovered Marthe when she was 16. I can’t recall the same level of art historical ahem over Bonnard… [Image: Bonnard, Marthe nude, seated on the bed with her back turned, 1899-1900. Sepia-toned gelatin silver print; 1 ½ x 2 in. Musée d’Orsay, Paris.]
  • Adorabz picture from MASS MoCA is adorabz.
  • Nice write up of the Philadelphia Museum of Art Zoe Strauss survey by Barry Schwabsky in The Nation. (Here’s The MAN Podcast featuring Strauss.)
  • Christopher Knight unloads on the well-connected, ultra-right-wing opponents of Charles Ray, Frank Gehry and the Eisenhower Memorial.
  • This two-day Anthony McCall exhibition-and-symposium in Chicago this weekend sounds like a pretty great place to be.
  • One of America’s most underrated curators is SFMOMA’s Corey Keller. So when SFMOMA’s Open Space blog posts a Gchat conversation between Keller and FAMSF chief curator and photo curator Julian Cox, it’s must-read stuff.
  • California is home to the best art museum blogs. Each of the first five posts at The Getty’s Iris blog is fascinating both visually and otherwise. (Tease: They include beheadings, love, lust, the apocalypse and other assorted naughtiness, plus a tall Valentine.)
  • This is the last week to see Doug Wheeler’s remarkable new ‘infinity environment’ at Chelsea’s David Zwirner gallery. (Across the country, MCASD just acquired this Wheeler, which is on view until August 1.) Wheeler, who at 72 is enjoying a late-career ‘comeback’ for which I can’t really think of a parallel, was my guest on this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast. I think it’s only the third one-on-one interview he’s ever done. You can download the show here, subscribe via iTunes here, and see images of the works discussed on the show here.

This deserves more attention, consideration

This would be a mistake, even a crisis, of international proportions. [Via.]

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