the new whitney has arrived

read nymag's art critic jerry saltz's review + nymag's architecture critic justin davidson's review.


both are on today's brian lehrer show discussing.

tell me how you really feel...

jerry saltz did NOT care for the bjork show at MoMA and seems to be kind of mad in general:

That sadness has mushroomed into dejection of late. Since 2004, when it reopened in its bland new Taniguchi building, many art-world conversations about New York museums circle back to and then plunge into people's pain, anger, sadness, and frustration about the Museum of Modern Art. On the one hand, the museum has the greatest collection of modern art on Earth. It always will. Yet not only is most of this collection permanently held captive in storage, what little of it is on view is seen in perhaps the most unpleasant viewing conditions in any major museum in the world — in far too few galleries that are far too small and poorly designed. Then there's the museum's twisted bid to transform itself into something like a multiplex mall, specializing in whiz-bang pop-cultural events. Now comes a Diller Scofidio + Renfro expansion plan meant to fix the problems it created in 2004, which looks much more likely to exacerbate them. (via)

renzo piano gives a good interview about architecture and responding to criticism

in metropolis

PC: Some people have said that the northern façade is not looking as exciting at it could be, that it does not make a enough of a gesture towards the city. How do you respond to that?

RP: First, we have to wait and see, the building is not ready yet, of course. A building like this is like a meteorite, but a gentle one. It does not destroy anything—actually it uplifts. But it lands, and it is something new there. People should wait for the building to be finished and see.

parking critic vandal tags queens

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no one likes Kanye's clothes...

...And he had promised them so much, telling the fashion director of one magazine, for example, that design was more important to him than music, and that he planned, with his runway debut, to “change the course of fashion.” “There are wishes, and there are realities,” said Long Nguyen, the style director of Flaunt magazine. “I feel bad, actually, that there wasn’t anything to grab on to. But you can’t just dump some fox fur on a runway and call it luxury.”[zing!]

“All I said was congratulations,” Mr. Zee said afterward. “I wasn’t even there.”

Anna Wintour said, “Ask someone else.”

nyt


UPDATE: here's what they look like:

I agree they don't change the course of fashion but it could be A LOT worse. #amiright?

omg twinsies!

martha stewart bent down to say hi to one of her puppies, and it busted her in the mouth! jicydak, when i was in second grade, i bent down to give my puppy max a kiss while he was eating his dinner, and he bit me! i got stitches! now, martha's going to have a really cool lip scar JUST LIKE ME!

and omg no she didn't! (from her slideshow)