The Digest. 05.26.10.
Andy Warhol’s self-portrait silkscreen on wallpaper. Part of an installation for the upcoming exhibit, Andy Warhol: The Last Decade, at the Brooklyn Museum, opening in three weeks. (Image courtesy of Marcus Romero and the Brooklyn Museum.)
- Looking for the most beautiful Tweet ever written. (The Book Bench.)
- Journalist Charles Bowden says that women in Juárez are killed at the same rate as in the rest of Mexico. The problem, he says, isn’t specifically violence against women, it’s the violence generated by extreme poverty and a failed state.
- The World Touristiness Map. (Coudal.)
- A jaw-droppingly wonderful choreography containing crutches, braces and boobies. Has to be seen to be believed.
- A performance artist on re-performing Abramovic.
- Where oh where is Carmen San Diego? Er, I mean, where oh where is Eli Broad planning on building his museum? For now, the conjecture points to downtown L.A. More here.
- The Art Industrial Average is Down: Lay-offs at the Art Institute of Chicago. (Arts Journal.)
- The Art Industrial Average Is Up: Whitney Museum board okays construction — and a move to — downtown Manhattan space. Boy, was I seriously wrong in thinking it was all conjecture.
- Well done: An artistic photo essay that takes its cues from the disaster in the Gulf. (The Jonathan Monk piece, #11, is an excellent use of a car hood.)
- Man Bartlett on what it was like to repeat people’s Tweets for 24 hours, as part of his work, #24Echo. I think this is the first time in my life I’ve been referred to as inspirational. From now on, call me Oprah.
- Fragments of stolen art come together to form another artwork by Eva and Franco Mattes.
- Do curators have too much power?
- Painted typewriters by Tauba Auerbach. (Coudal.)
- Zombie meat.
- A digital graffiti wall. (@GOOD.)
- Today’s Street Art: Lucho and quillo’s wrecked car in Santiago, Chile.
- Artist Molly Dilworth to turn Times Square into a river.
- In Paris: A door that leads to nowhere.
- Not even remotely related: The Champs Elysées is turned into a giant garden. (Cool Green Science.)
- Best. News Lede. Ever. (@russelltrombone.)