Lost art, stone & paint edition

At least the cow will survive.

May have something to say about it in a column later this week, although perhaps I should wait until the inevitable destruction. At best they'll save the medallions, and place them in the park, just like the eagles from the old Convention Center. Such as:

I'd love to see the old building saved, of course; I like to joke that it's the only example left downtown of Italian Fascist architecture. But it has a stern, clean beauty, and the new towers could take their cues from its stone and black brick. Pigs could also, given sufficient genetic modification, fly.

As the day towards demolition draws near, I'll run a few photos from the archives. I found this old slide in an envelope in a filing cabinet in the morgue; don't know if it's ever been seen before.

MST3K As you may have heard, the old tradition of a Thanksgiving MST3K Marathon returns this year. As they say, I went to the comments at io9 ooking for Classic Krankor Laugh, and was not disappointed:

In related news, here's a movie for the Rifftrax crew to eviscerate in 2016. Variety reports:

Well, that's a switch. And then he jumps off the bridge and dies? While I'm not going to judge it without seeing it - for once in my life - it does darken the story of the first one, doesn't it? George and Mary's descendent ruins lives. Sigh.

ART For years people had been painting pictures on the walls of a building they didn't own, without the owner's permission. Naturally, they were indignant when the owner painted over their work.

If there's anything that will derail a massive real-estate deal, it's controversial outrage in the artists' community. Sorry: this has nothing to do with the quality of the work, or whether spray-can painting on someone else's wall is art. It is. Some of it is quite brilliant. But if you're doing it on someone else's property the art lives at the whims of the owner.

I suspect this won't be the same. It'll be a petting zoo. There won't be the same thrill of painting where you're not supposed to paint. Here's the takeaway quote:

Oh, please. A pre-whitewash tour of the work can be seen here. Some great pieces, and if you don't think that's art, well, what else would it be?

PURPLE SNOW That's what the archivists call the Minneapolis music scene pre-Prince:

That's it for today - there would be a video, but it's not embedding. Well, let's try again . . . Hey! It works.

As they say: wait for it.