Smørrebrød and Courbet, Laura Owens and Rachel Kushner, the CIA and Haim Steinbach, etc. [Collected]

Installation view of Keil Borrman, “Airing the Facilitation Banner Paintings,” at Osmos, New York, July 22, 2013.

• "He worked a brush quickly back and forth on the canvas. 'What is this article about, again?' Your home." [NYT via Ah Hole Ah Hole]

• Smoked trout smørrebrød and Gustave Courbet. [Feasting on Art]

• "You get the feeling, in fact, that this woman could leg-wrestle a crocodile if she needed to." [LACM on Fire]

• Laura Owens talks with Rachel Kushner. "Well, I love it when you have done that, put paintings inside paintings. I mean, even as a child if there was a children’s book with paintings on the wall inside the image––like in Goodnight Moon—I always felt entranced, like I was seeing something more, a surplus of viewing that was not being controlled for presentation: as if the pictures inside the picture were 'real' views, less authorized, because incidental. I guess that’s part of the playfulness when you, Laura, paint paintings inside of paintings—it suggests access to a more insightful view if you can see inside the picture something that wasn’t drawn by the hand of the picture maker." [The Believer via Brian Sholis]

• "The Architecture of Superman: A Brief History of The Daily Planet." [Design Decoded]

• Designing Superman. [99% Invisible]

• The Central Intelligence Agency channels Haim Steinbach. [Greg.org]

• Steinbach at CCS Bard: the show of the summer. [NYT]

• Dirk Luckow conducts—assembles? or writes?—an interview with Imi Knoebel in 1993–94. [JCA via Rolublog]

• Four Saints in Three Acts, 1934. [And a Half]

• Not Beatrix Ruf. [@NotBeatrixRuf/Twitter via Jersey Magoo]

• A special message from Brian Belott! [ABAB]