Every object has its day, but to replace Dustin Shuler’s spindle with a Walgreen’s is an art crime. I just visited Spindle in it’s home at Cermak Plaza in Berwyn, Illinois on July 3rd, and it was one of the highlights of my trip to Chicago, a city that just seems to get [...]

I’m glad that my hometown paper gives me this kind of on the ground international material for my mental gristmill.  An article that focuses on the daily struggle of the artists themselves, even.  It’s sad, but it’s also good to know that there are still artists who are keeping on truckin’ amidst the winds [...]

So I couldn’t bear WACK! at MOCA, and given the sheer number of female artists that I work with everyday and have shown over the years, I’m somewhat skeptical of the “giving women their due” attitude that I smelled when the “Year of the Woman” organizational mailers started landing on my desk, but if [...]

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s collection is full of interesting surprises.  I really wanted to photograph more there, but they have what appears to be a “no photo, except in one or two galleries of European paintings” policy.  As I noted before, though, they have an incredible lack of attentive docents – I [...]

Found at Boing Boing, originally posted at Wooster Collective.

This is a riff on For the Love of God, by an artist identified only as “Laura”. A reproduction of the piece was placed in a vitrine, atop a pile of garbage outside of White Cube, where the skull currently resides. Regardless of it’s [...]