Bence Hadju is a dutch artist who photoshops people out of old master paintings--the gifs of theme populated and unpopulated in the link are distracting, the original is eerie, and works past the gimmick.

speaking of photoshop, this new show at the Met, about manipulated photos before digital culture, that works to reconsider what the history of photography means, and about it as a techincal and social as much of an artistic media.

posters and t shirts of world runways.

a variety of school composition books



Alison Brie and Gillian Jacobs in vintage lingerie play at being pin-ups, not only sexy as hell, a genius work of physical comedy, and a pretty great soundtrack,


a dozen or so pics of Rosewell, NM

Roberta Smith's review of the new Ai Wei Wei show is really well written, and works out some of the problems in his practice--it is smart, poltiically aware work, and uses the politics of visual spectacle to elucidate both the problems of China, and the problems of the West's realtionship with China--much of this work is relational, and because we live in the 21st century, relational works in relation to the digital. The question becomes two fold, is his work politics using the rubic of art, art using the rubic of politics, and if it is both--does it function as an aesthetic excercise? The photo work in the 1980s, which was also mentioned by Jerry Saltz, seems to be the beginning of this crisis, are they tourist photos of ny in the 80s, are they an immigrants expereince, are they aping earlier, better ny aesthetics, or are they acts of translation. I think that Wei Wei's best work refuses modernism's art for art's sake, and also the fascile shallowness of much American poltical work, and so by extension, even if it isn't "Great Art" it is vital.

the lost creeks of Edmonton.  the lost creeks and rivers of toronto

Federal Prosecutors sue the Bank of America for 1b.

More eccentric Victoriana from Jess Nevins, this time featuring a Robot Ostritch.

Everytime that William Gibson writes about the aesthetics of the future, he adds these tiny prescient details from fields that he really shouldn't follow but does--here he talks about fashion, and has really really smart things to say about McQueen.

Jess Ragan is a typesetter and letter press artist who takes brilliant photos of NY fonts.

Jean Nouvel Carousel under the water of Hurricane Sandy last night.

Zak and Fox are designers and textile artists, this is there pinboard.

Todd Romano photos of a tiny ny apt with glossy navy blue walls

Mike Davis the brilliant socialist critic of cities, talks about the history of LDS' realtionship to social utopias, and their collective forgetting. He is not wrong, and it is one thing that critics of the church miss. The other side, the John Birch, isolaitonist, paleo-con side, now embodied by Glenn Beck, is also not remembered by Romney--and Young's cagey state craft, has elements of both. Their is a tradition in LDS culture that he does embody though, the low key, statist, middle of the road conserative, the willingness to give up Desert for America for example--the kind embodied by Benson under Eisenhower or Hatch or even Mitt's father--this is a tradition that is under written about in his history, and one that Davis, as an excellent critic of statist systems, should have picked up on.

Playable Tetris Pumpkin.

Dave Heaton's review on Kip Moore's new album is a kind of referendum on what his nusic means--smooth with a gorgeous voice, and a commitment to pleasure, the line between a bland genric quality and a smart blankness that reads as universal is difficult to parse, and as much as I like the album, what it means has never really settled into my head.


I went to a wrestling match, and a baseball game broke out.