Friday Links: Salvador Dali’s Cookbook

• Hauser Wirth + Schimmel, the Sterling Cooper Draper Price of the art world, descends upon LA with a 100,000 square foot building in a gut renovated former flour factory. Is the art world shifting its center? [Artnet]
• We’ll be following Carolina Miranda’s new culture blog at the LA Times for the answer. [LA Times]
• The above Mad Men comparison was ripped off from Christian Viveros-Fauné’s review of Lucien Smith, whose show he believes smacks of calculated career moves. As usual, there’s no shortage of quotables, but here’s a line that made me laugh so hard I snorted tea out of my nose: “Smith, along with a singularly opportunistic generation of twenty- and thirtysomethings — call them the Opportunists — produce paintings tailor-made for the market.” [Village Voice]
• After the news that Jamestown, VA is probably going to sink this century, it looks like Massachusetts might divest from fossil fuels. [Treehugger]
• Web layout, taken to new extremes. [GQ]
• “The worst cases require the worst tools,” says Dragan Espenschied, Rhizome’s digital archivist, when referring to the problem of preserving art criticism on Facebook. Espenschied has come up with a way to archive your actions in a browser which requires an individual to access Facebook through a proxy server that would record data from their interactions. As Tom Moody brought up in the comment thread to this post, it doesn’t solve the problem of privacy settings, which affect what a user sees, but Kaplan says Rhizome is working on it. [Rhizome]
• Salvador Dali wrote a cookbook! The book costs $350 on Amazon, but Brainpickings has published a few of the recipes, such as Conger Eel and “Thousand Year Old Eggs”. This of course comes with grotesquely exaggerated faces and self cannibalizing food. [Brainpickings]
• Jorge Daniel Veneciano took over as director at El Museo del Barrio in March, and in the three months he’s been there he’s closed the half million dollar budget deficit that had plagued the museum. Now to avoid the dull drums. Holland Cotter discusses the new programming noting that it’s a solid but conservative lineup. [The New York Times]

Tagged as: Carolina Miranda, Christian Viveros-Faune, Dragan Espenschied, Hauser Wirth + Schimmel, Jorge Daniel Veneciano, lucien smith, Tom Moody