The 20×200 20% More Ridiculous Sale

All print sizes on sale til tomorrow Midnight! A total steal (if you ask me).

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Facebook’s valuation (in Whoppers)

“Burger King recently introduced a Facebook app called Whopper Sacrifice that allows users to delete ten of their friends in exchange for a Whopper sandwich. Watch the app in action. What BK has unwittingly done here is provide a way to determine the valuation of Facebook.” When all’s said and done, Kottke determines BK’s valuation of Facebook at $3.6 billion; considerably less than the $15 billion valuation assigned to Facebook by Microsoft in 2007 “but in the same ballpark as the lower valuations being tossed about in recent months.”

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MoMA.org | Exhibitions | 2009 | Performance 1: Tehching Hsieh

This exhibition opens January 21st and looks VERY promising “…an ongoing series that will bring performance documentation, original performance pieces, and live reenactments of historic performances to various locations throughout the Museum. The first artist to be spotlighted is Tehching Hsieh (b. 1950, Taiwan), who is best known for his five One Year Performances…”

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ArtCal - Chelsea - Bortolami Gallery - Richard Aldrich

Over all this painting show is excellent, though it does beg the question: Is it possible to make a successful painting with an exposed stretcher? Based on this show I’m going to go with, No.

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2009_creativecapitalprojectdescriptions.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Creative Capital Emerging Field winners announced. Artists include Matthew Coolidge, Center for Land Use Interpretation;
Beatriz da Costa; eteam: Franziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger, Catherine Herdlick; and more.

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The Big Bend Sentinel - Guest Commentary

More on the Marfa hotel rezoning: The Planning and Zoning commission voted 3-2 to approve the rezoning. The issue now goes before the City Council for review. I wish The Big Bend Sentinel listed easily viewable publishing dates. If it’s listed on that site I can’t find it.

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Cityfile: Richard Prince and Larry Gagosian Slapped with Suit

Photographer Patrick Cariou filed a lawsuit against Prince, Gagosian, and Rizzoli last week for using a number of his photographs in Prince’s “Canal Zone” exhibition without his consent, pics that Cariou alleges first appeared in his 2000 book, Yes Rasta. Ironically the artist’s personal friend and disgraced author James Frey wrote the introduction. He is not named in the suit.

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ArtCal - Chelsea - Schroeder Romero - Michael Waugh, The More I See of Men

Waugh was working on this show through the holidays while also at Momenta helping me with the fundraiser. I’m looking forward to seeing the new drawings! Opens Friday January 16th.

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ArtCal - Brooklyn Misc. - Rotunda Gallery - Human Craters

Recommended

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ArtCal Zine - Events - The Concept of Time at the Guggenheim

“Rirkrit Tiravanija and Douglas Gordon’s Cinema Liberté presents an epic program of previously banned films to be comfortably watched on beanbag cushions.” Not necessarily a bad idea, but who hasn’t seen screened films like The Last Temptation of Christ before? How valuable is the gesture if the films have already been absorbed into the culture?

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ArtCal - Midtown - The Project - Stage II

Recommended. Opens this Thursday

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Mysterious Sweet Smell From 2005 Returns to Manhattan - NYTimes.com

Labeled “Headline of the Day” by one facebook friend. It’s a little early yet to know, but he may be right.

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Op-Ed Columnist - Fighting Off Depression - NYTimes.com

“Let’s not mince words: This looks an awful lot like the beginning of a second Great Depression.” Hello scary.

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Twitter / 1000TimesYes

If it were anyone else I’d think promising to review 1,000 new releases in 2009 over Twitter was a little Internet hokie but I bet music critic Christopher Weingarten can pull it off. Note that the use of dashes does not indicate a minus number rating.

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FFFFOUND! | Lotaburger: Welcome

If you are what you eat…

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