“Hotspot”? Really?

This article is really, really tone deaf and unsophisticated. What does the median income of BFAs have to do with anything? Also, Boyle Heights has never been derelict or abandoned. I’m assuming that the name 356 Mission is the street address, but the notion of “mission” is very loaded and apt – to convert, civilize,…

I like Julian Stallabrass on contemporary art as a fashion and investment market with values much closer to the stock market at the level of corporations rather than as an intellectual or aesthetic discipline. I also run a museum studies program, so art as tax shelter/ money laundering/ portable luxury investment (vs.…

Kenny G. with a bocce ball is no great loss to to sum of human aesthetic pleasure.

It’s not being bought for status. The buyer will never be known because the buyer is a conglomerate of holding companies. This isn’t even about ownership. The money is basically virtual, but cleaner now that it’s rerouted into dubious art. Dubious art is better than dubious war spoils or embezzlement of half of…

Thought crimes? Good Gaia, you seem to have scattered your pearls.

No nostalgia here. In 2005 – for once – Kanye was right. I am not buying this Nero is better than Caligula crap. The invasion of Iraq is worse than tweeting, I’m sorry. I’m not down with romanticizing the puppet-dunce of 2001-2008.

Plus she showcases how she loves baking in a little retro mommy apron (like, literally – cookies “for her man” in a cutesy apron). It’s such a weird performance of heterosexuality, it borders on camp.

This bothers me too, particularly because it seems like it might be *very* curated vis-a-vis her sexuality. Karlie 4eva!

How is being in Albany not the deal breaker?

Boys. Michelangelo Buonarroti, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, and Leonardo da Vinci were at the very least both/and, but mostly boys. My art history students love this retroactive recognition of queer “masters.”

Team rat.

Miss that so much. She could have gone on in the same vein for years, with random pics of miniature, footed greasy river whales and musings about how she wishes she had a nicer cat. With this one, I’m sure straw sticks to it, which is disappointing.

But why so glisteny and foldy? Just not a good cat. I keep checking to see if that’s revived because of Fiona, but no. So sad.

Extra psychotic bobbling because this chick is all about bleeding out of your whatever. So fucking uncanny – cheap, malfunctioning animatronic John Tesh sculpted by a very drunk middle school art teacher.

Looks like black market fillers administered by a the beautician at the state prison in Svobodny. He looks like a rat with diabetes bloat. Ours looks like an obese featherless cockerel with rabies though, so it’s a draw.

And HL is the “person” in the “corporations are people too” (Romney) Supreme Court case. So, if HL is a person in possession of priceless stolen goods for which he paid terrorists, why can’t he be prosecuted criminally? I read the comments below that this is forfeiture/seizure/repatriation, but as a rhetorical…

This. Lie down with dogs, get fleas. I can’t summon extra outrage beyond marveling at the serial-killer-toddler misogyny.