ex a BNN tweat. Apart from The Last Supper metaphor (on which Michael Shaw comments) see how this appears to have been photographed (by Pete Souza, White House) through a mirror, shooting up to exclude the camera from the reflection. Is that tricky or am I imagining things?

Read Holland Cotter in the NYT on the historical cycle of boom and bust in the art world… concluding: “where imagining the unknown and the unknowable — impossible to buy or sell — is the primary enterprise. Crazy! says anyone with an ounce of business sense” – thanks to breakfastpolitics for the lead…

You’ll need to watch out for Rachel Jessie-Rae O’Connor’s next show at ArtWranglers in April to fully engage with her Glitter World View (25cm diameter circle, acrylic, glitter and foil on canvas).

Here’s a neat point of comparison – from BNN – this great image from the (official) slideshow by White House photographer Pete Souza. Now look back a few posts to the farewell photos… (New technology? let’s hope it works better than the old technology!)

Two things come to mind: was it absolutely necessary to paint this building in emergency orange? And why, when sculptures in the public domain attract such controversy and opinion-venting, why is it that such garish examples of poke-in-the-eye ornamentation pass without comment? Surely both are public artefacts, both exist in public space, both have equal capacity to attract or repel? Where are the architecture critics when we need them? Talking to their lawyers? P.S. Trying to track who were the architects, we came across this little Photoshop “Toy-ota” gem… pity about the lawn…

One of the pleasures of reading ArtDaily is the humour/taste/values of the pix editor at ArtDaily where they often show exhibitions interrupted by their viewers! In this case, we feel sure Max Ernst would have approved…

This beautiful pair of Eclectus Parrots was spotted for sale at the Candelo Markets. The female is the red, the male green – and between them they share all the other colours of the rainbow. There’s a lesson here – the disruptive modernist grid notwithstanding – that such purity of colour is staggeringly seductive… Once you see it, you can’t get it out of your head. Thanks to Megs for the snap…

And it pays! For the reproduction rights for this glimpse into the sketch book, your blogwrangler had to pay $50…

See all 66 photographs of the building of this crisp object. Looks like a stealth bomber. Is this the future of Porsche design, or is the architect simply dramatising the slinkyness of the building’s famous contents? The story on ArtDaily doesn’t say who is the architect… For that you need to got to the Museum site, where references to the Viennese architects Delugan Meissl is curiously hard to find…

Hot with a chance of a late storm was last seen at Sydney’s Sculpture by the Sea, is by The Glue Society. Their site is well worth a visit… especially the ad for 42Below…