Camera on city, Castle Williams, Governors Island, NY (2003) by Lisa Kereszi, from the Governors Island series [via > via]
• As Glenn Beck accuses the National Endowment for the Arts of being a propaganda outfit (and questions whether artists have "principles"), LA Times art writer Christopher Knight points out that the logo for the Glenn Beck-affiliated 9/12 march on Washington over the weekend "derives from century-old communist, socialist and other left-wing designs." Of course, it's not the first time Beck's opined about art.
• RIP Jim Carroll.
• Pranksters rickroll MIT: First eight notes of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" glued to the side of the school's Great Dome.
• Friday is PARK(ing) Day. Here's ground zero for the Minneapolis-St. Paul version.
• Bill Viola bags on a conference with the Pope about restoring links between art and faith out of disagreement with the church's teachings. Via @TylerGreenDC.
• Unurth unearths a lovely mural by art duo Interesni Kazki in the forest near Vorokhta, Ukraine.
• Trailer: Untitled, a spoof on the contemporary art world.
• The National Summit on Arts Journalism is Oct. 2 at
• Visualizing Beethoven's Fifth.
• Test your knowledge: is it a cheese or a font?
NAJP 'summit' is at USC, not UCLA.
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