I don't think these really count as secrets

For this year's Museum Week, museums around the world were asked to post secrets. Some of these are pretty cool, and I guess it would be unfair to ask institutions to tell their actual secrets.

Big sales at the art auction

Not Christie's or Sotheby's. The Rodeo.

Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees

I started reading Lawrence Weschler's book about the artist Robert Irwin, and it's one of those books I wish I had read years ago.

Originally published in 1982, the book has been expanded several times to almost double its original length. It's part biography and part critical history of Irwin, an artist I'd never heard of, even though I've admired his work before.

I can't wait to finish it and reconsider a giant portion of all the art I've ever considered.

What is statistics good for?

Among other things, identifying Banksy.

Vantablack

Yves Klein famously had his own color, and now Anish Kapoor does as well. Kapoor has somehow got the exclusive rights to a high-tech nano-pigment called Vantablack. It absorbs more than 99.9% of light, and Kapoor is the only artist who can (legally) work with it.

What does an artist do with a virtual black hole? Let's find out.

Dion McGregor

Years ago on ktru I heard a really weird story, involving a hot-air baloon, that went on for much too long. But then the DJ said it was from a recording of a man sleep-talking. Now, thanks to BBC, I know who that man was and how that eery story ended up as part of my morning commute. The article has several of his recordings.

Opening, "Found: Ourselves"

Carnegie students (and some others, but whatever) were featured in Glasstire for the opening of Found: Ourselves, curated by Carnegie's own Lynn Huynh. Way to go!

Don Justo's Cathedral

Spain's newest cathedral--though technically not a cathedral--has been under construction for 55 years. And almost all the construction has been completed by one man.

Watch Kandinsky at work!

A short film of an abstract picture being made in 1926.

Light show in the Temple of Dendur

Similar to the projected-light restoration of the Harvard Rothko Murals, a projection experiment at the Met is bringing back the original colors of their ancient Egyptian temple.