The US Postal Service must have heard our collective wail at the news that they’re looking to scale back mail delivery to five days a week, cutting out Saturday entirely. Because they’ve just offered us a real treat in the form of new stamps emblazoned with canvases from the Abstract Expressionism period of the 1940-50s. As Twitter user @rcwellington reports, the stamps are “HUGE!” Set in a stylized frame riffing on elements from Barnett Newman’s Achilles (1952), the stamp party pack includes ten AbEx favorites. Get a closer look after the jump.
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Last week we told you about Bernie Madoff indirectly sinking Brandeis University’s Rose Art Museum. Now Modern Art Notes is pointing us to story about a similar (albeit less all encompassing) situation going down at the University of Iowa Art Museum, regarding the forced sale of a Jackson Pollock painting that’s worth $140m.
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Because we can’t all escape from our desks to enjoy 72-degree weather and international contemporary art, Flavorpill’s resident guru Paul Laster will be bringing you daily bold-face name littered updates and photos from Art Basel Miami all week. If you missed yesterday’s first installment, read it now.
VIEW THE IMAGE GALLERY OF HIS EXPLOITS HERE
The art world scoop from Day Two after the jump…
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VIEW THE SLIDESHOW OF HER INSPIRED MISADVENTURES
After reading about Jerry Saltz’s overnight stay at Carsten Höller’s Revolving Hotel Room at the Guggenheim, we got to thinking: What would it be like to spend a night in New York’s other major museums? No better way to find out than to try. We sent our more attractive reporter Adda Birnir — robe in hand — with our staff photographer Tom Starkweather to *test out the accommodations.
Jerry Saltz, we see your Guggenheim and raise you the New Museum, Brooklyn Museum and MoMA.
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When having rats is a good thing – A Liverpool pub featuring one of BANKSY’s giant rat murals from 2004 is on the market for £495,000. Experts value the building at closer to a million pounds thanks to the image’s size and age. [The Mirror]
We hope you’re not eating a burger – DAMIEN HIRST art directs a gruesome new video for British rock band THE HOURS that stars SIENNA MILLER, a mutilated cow and a boatload of blood. Ew. [NME]
He’s come a long way, baby – Next week New York’s Whitney Museum hosts a WILLIAM EGGLESTON retrospective; his museum debut in 1976 was called “the most hated show of the year,” but as he made color photography legit as fine art, we’ll cut him a break. [Time]
Cheaper than a footlong at Subway – The JACKSON POLLOCK painting featured in WHO THE $#%& IS JACKSON POLLOCK is for sale at a gallery in Toronto with an asking price of 5 million dollars. That’s $4,999,995 than the owner paid for it in a thrift store. [CBC]
Gehry goes all grave digger – An Iraeli court has approved L.A.’s Simon Wiesenthal Center’s plans to put up a FRANK GEHRY-designed Museum of Tolerance on the grounds of a Muslim cemetery. Double ew. [LAT]
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