Crate Update: Whenever a Walker-organized show goes on tour, Program Services staff design custom stencils for the shipping crates. Four new ones to add to our ongoing list (top to bottom): Some Assembly Required: Contemporary Prefabricated Houses (now on view at Yale); Chuck Close, Self-Portraits, 1967–2005 (no longer touring); ANDY WARHOL/SUPERNOVA: Stars, Deaths, and Disasters, 1962–1964 (no longer touring); and Kiki Smith: A Gathering, 1980–2005 (on view at the Whitney).
Artist news: Tacita Dean won the 2006 Hugo Boss Prize, while Damien Hirst, putting his net worth at “more like 100m,” curates from his own collection.
Baldessari and bowler hats: Puffy blue clouds painted on the floors, museum guards wearing bowler hats, a Vija Celmins comb sculpture paired with Rene Magritte’s painting of a giant comb: that’s what LACMA got when they asked John Baldessari to design the exhibition Magritte and Contemporary Art.
Inflatable studio: Rocketboom interviews Huong Ngo in her pop-up art studio atop an NYC rooftop.
Civic Studio: The “civic studio” project takes Ngo’s notion an additional step, offering groups of 8 to 12 artists temporary space in public to facilitate lectures, artmaking, and demonstrations, with the aim of engaging “in the study and cration of civic forms through visual means.” (Via Free Soil.)
How to Make a Sock Monkey: Plans here; inspiration here.