Discovered by happy accident in a lab at Oregon State:
Online, it looks a lot like Yves Klein blue, but it’s safe and (when generics appear) cheap.
Glasstire’s Top Ten art activists.
The boom in Doomsday.
In Seattle, NUBE opens at the Odd Fellows Hall.
Also Seattle, Jeffry Mitchell wins a Joan Mitchell.
In New York, the Homeless Art Museum makes an appearance.
Armenians celebrate the opening of the Cafesjian Center for the Arts.
Jeff Shang‘s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” portraits via Culture Monster.
MoCA revs up Chris Burden’s Big Wheel. (At the Henry Gallery 1985-86)
Allen Ginsberg’s Tips for Artists.
Roger Ballen, profile of the geologist/artist.
Finally, Holland Cotter on Saints at a Culture Crossroad:
At monasteries on Mount Athos in northern Greece, you wake in the night to the sound of Greek Orthodox monks chanting Byzantine prayers. It’s an unforgettable sound, distant and unearthly, but also inside you, like a buzz in the blood.
The painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos, better known as El Greco, almost certainly heard it growing up far to the south on the island of Crete. You can hear it today when you visit “The Origins of El Greco: Icon Painting in Venetian Crete,” a lustrous exhibition at the Onassis Cultural Center in Midtown Manhattan. (more)
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