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Artistic Endevors: Jenny Holzer On Writing, Law & Order And Pizza
The New York Times was lucky enough to go inside the house of artist Jenny Holzer. While her rooms are relatively unrevealing, her sound-bite heavy, 31-point interview is another story. More »Icon Undressed
She may be famous for her smile, but some inhabitants of Warsaw seem more interested in the Mona Lisa's other assets. We have no idea what this billboard is advertising, but take a gander after the jump (NSFW). [Copyranter] More »'How Can He Ruin So Many Hours Of My Young Life": Artists' Kids Were Ungrateful Muses
Being a model is often part of the job description for an artist's child. Now, they get their say: More »Art In America: Painting Gets Pulled From White House Following Furor
As soon as the list of art works requested for display in the White House was released, every political blogger suddenly turned into an art critic, and Watusi by Alma Thomas somehow made it to the center of the storm. More »Rock Of Ages
A 91-year-old Australian woman won the top prize in the Sculpture By The Sea awards. May Barrie completed Time and Tide Granite Monolith II over a decade ago and has been sculpting for over 60 years. [Reuters, Mercury]Egypt, Germany Tussle Over Bust
Egyptian authorities have demanded the return of the famous bust of Nefertiti from Germany. Antiques chief Zahi Hawass alleges she left Egypt illegally, and should be returned to her homeland. German art experts have denied this claim. [NYT]"Wild Woman" Tracey Emin On Art, Kids, & Statutory Rape
In an interview with the Mirror, former enfant terrible Tracey Emin reveals that her ex-boyfriend, who she dated when she was just 14 and he was 22, is auctioning off her old love letters. Emin is pissed. More »"What Was Really At Stake Was Power"
From the NYT review: "O'Keeffe wanted the power to include sexuality in her art's expressive range, without necessarily making it the subject. Stieglitz wanted the power to define her art purely in terms of feminine sexuality." [NYT]New Exhibit Seeks To Shake O'Keeffe's Labia-Centric Label
"Kitschy," "a tourist-brochure artist," "labia-centric" and "baby-crazy" are just some of the insults that have been thrown at artist Georgia O'Keeffe. But a new exhibit at the Whitney seeks to change all that. More »Elevator Girl Recognizes Herself In Iconic Photograph, Years Later
In 1955, photographer Robert Frank snapped a picture of a girl in her uniform, working the elevator in a Miami hotel, as she looked toward the camera with an unreadable expression. Her name was Sharon Goldstein. More »Police Recover Stolen Nude
Iraqi police have recovered a Picasso painting, "The Naked Woman," that has been missing since 1991. The man they arrested was trying to sell it for $450,000, but experts say it may be worth up to $10 million. [NYDailyNews]Artist Rasha Kahil Makes Sex "Everyday"
"I propped myself on the kitchen counter and he grabbed and parted my thighs. The sound of keys fiddling at the front door interrupted the beginning of what could've been an unusual fuck," writes Rasha Kahil in her work XI. More »You're A Good Monster, Charlie Brown
For his art show "Monsters," illustrator Tim O'Brien decided to take Charlie Brown and turn him into something grotesque. He explains that he took something "usually thought of as cute and benign" and made it realistic, "not normal." [Flavorwire, Drawger]"For Me, Pain Is An Anachronism"
Which is good, since French performance artist Orlan has made a career of, some would say, mutilating her body. More »Modern Art
Although for most of her life Sonia Delaunay was known as the wife of artist Robert Delaunay, now she's celebrated in her own right as a founder of the "Orphism" movement, and represented in "Futurism" at the Tate Modern. [Obit]Last Crusade
Artist Guy Laramée sandblasted this amazing replica of the Jordan's Khaznat al-Faron at Petra from old encyclopedias. He chose...wisely. [Utne]Crisis Management
Jana Leo created RAPE NEW YORK as a means of dealing with her own assault. Her book and accompanying exhibit are composed of the "archive" of her experience, an examination of the process and the subject's taboos. [Invisible-Exports]Same Diff
Paris' Quai Branly Museum, which is dedicated to the "primary arts" of Africa, the Pacific, the Americas and Asia, is devoting an exhibit to the iconography of Tarzan,"the King of the Apes, and his mate Jane." [Reuters]Tooth Fairy
We are slightly obsessed with the blog "My Milk Toof," in which two of the author's baby teeth, Ickle and Lardee, go on adventures. Odd? Why, yes! [My Milk Toof]Daddy's Girl
Helen Of Joy
Awesome: The Metropolitan Museum has established an endowment fund in memory of the late street photographer Helen Levitt, is acquiring more of her work, and is showing a selection of photographs through this summer. [MediaBistro]