I worry that I like Lisa Gidley's work mostly due to Vanity, but it's gorgeous. 

The birther and arch conserative Ken Bennett 's  son has an odd realtionship to younger members of a camp he belonged to, including some severe sexual violence.

The London design firm Pymlico, and the designer Roy McCarthy were upset at how rigid the laws and guidelines about London Olympics were, so they found an open source solution, that works both practically (now pubs can tell their audience they are showing the games, for example) and political (it becomes a critique of of the intersection between corpration and government). Plus, it's lovely and heavily adaptable.

Dana Schutz has a new show of paintings, i really am confused about how i feel here--they are less violent, less angry, with the compositon opened up, and the colours brighter---but the article suspects that politics are a bit more leached.

a few dozen photos by Russell Lee of the 40s, the colours are unreal.



Holy Modal Rounders, 1962, interesting how the edges of art music and the edges of folk music bleed into each other here, also quite other worldly.

16 photos of early 70s gay rights strugle

fascinating article on how Richter's work changed explicitly due to the concerns of the market. More discussion 
Speaking of Richter, these Denzler paintings from frozen VHS Stills are Richteresque.

smart little peice on how models have become ugly

Biola College, evangelical and conserative, has a radical queer underground emerging, of students and facility

Photos and Blueprints, with some explanation of the Morris Mechanic Theater, a brutalist masterpeice in Baltimore.


Rooney Doppleganger, one clothed and one half naked, gorgeously shot, plus you know, hottie Ronnie.

The best exceprt about this is the eucharistic potential of inuit shamanic walrus consumption

When Dolan was in Milwauke, he gave up to 20k to some paedophile priests to have them go away.

Chantal Herbert on the rise of the NDP and Conserative EI

Chronichle of Higher Education Article  on the problems of money and univeristiy presses, and why moving to digital presses might not be a solution.

Peanuts Tarot.



Col. Sanders on Swaggart's PTL Club, notable for any number of reasons, including but not limited to the set.