Garage sale negatives verified as $200 M Ansel Adams trove – thestar.com. “A Fresno man who spent $45 on two boxes of negatives at a garage sale 10 years ago has had them authenticated as lost works of the iconic American photographer Ansel Adams worth an estimated $200 million”

Creative Review – StreetMuseum iPhone app. see historical photos over the original location in London.

Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868 | Past Exhibitions | The Metropolitan Museum of Art. just heard about this the other day. looked like it had some pretty badass stuff.

A Better Way To Find Art – Print Society

Goodwill earns $160,000 for donated art – The Globe and Mail “Two oil paintings left last year in an Etobicoke Goodwill bin sold at auction Tuesday in Toronto for close to $160,000″

Artist Files Lawsuit Against The Associated Press Over Image of Obama – NYTimes.com. all over the iconic obama poster.

Josef Koudelka Blossomed When Prague Withered – NYTimes.com. Kodeda, i’ll call this photo exhibit to your attention.

50 Incredible Film Posters From Poland // wellmedicated. it’s movies you’ve seen with cool arthouse posters. via ram

California Literary Review: North Korean Propaganda Posters. those are nuts. via ram.

Threadless – Never Ending Polaroid video. it definitely was a cool idea.


MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU on Vimeo. Buenos Aires had so much graffiti.

1984 book cover and Animal Farm book cover by Sheppard Fairy. I’m a big fan of both Orwell and Obey Giant so this is a pretty awesome combo.

Book Autopsies. that’s some cool art project. via sean.

the golden suicides

When Theresa Duncan, 40, took her own life on July 10, followed a week later by her boyfriend, Jeremy Blake, 35, their friends were stunned and the press was fascinated: what had destroyed this glamorous couple, stars of New York’s multi-media art world, still madly in love after 12 years?

That’s the by-line from a rather dizzying article in this month’s Vanity Fair entitled The Golden Suicides. The article tells of the couples move to Los Angeles, failed movie deals, and Duncan’s paranoia about being watched and threatened by the Church of Scientology. Oddly, one of the last things Duncan did before killing herself was posting a quote on her blog about the need for humans to tell stories. Further, she seems to be blogging posthumously. She had left a post about the supernatural to be automatically posted in October, 3 months after her death, and an Editor’s note mentions that there is yet another post dated for New Year’s Eve.

Crazy.

BBC NEWS | In pictures: Banksy returns to Bethlehem. checking the cow’s papers is quality. via ram.

Shattered still life. some cool artistic photos.

People of the Web – Strokes of Genius. this guy makes some pretty crazy paintings (and some crazy videos along the way).

designverb – Tunnel House. people do the darnedest things. via sean.

Projectionist: Crazy video graffiti video. i stll don’t get how that worked. cool though.

current work “Depicts 60,000 plastic bags, the number used in the US every five seconds.” etc etc etc. via jody