Canoe, WH ’10, a found-wood sculpture by R.L. Croft at Occoquan Creek in Prince William County, Va. See a local story on another work here. Or better yet, visit Croft’s website. (Image courtesy of R.L. Croft.)

• Must. Get. These boots. (Thank you for this amazing discovery, @giovannigf.)
• How Peruvian hair ends up on the heads of ladies in Brooklyn. (Things I loved learning: Orthodox women consider curly hair to symbolize an “unruly” spirit.)
• Are you wiping your butt with old growth forests? (Cool Green Science.)
• “Income inequality in the United States is higher than in any other advanced industrial democracy and by conventional measures comparable to that in countries such as Ghana, Nicaragua, and Turkmenistan.”
• There’s an all kinds of interesting story in the New Yorker about the recently refurbished Vatican Library. (Subscription required.)
• Between a Cross and a Hard Place: Excellent piece on the Wojnarowicz controversy (with hstorical context) in ARTnews.
• “Thus, my five-year long trial ended without judgment—neither condemnation nor vindication, a reality hard to accept, given the distorted and slanderous allegations against me.” The Getty’s former antiquities curator Marion True, on the ambivalent end to the charges filed against her in an Italian court for allegedly conspiring to receive illegally excavated antiquities. Read her full statement here. (L.A. Times.)
• Stonerrific: The eCloud sculpture at San Jose International Airport. Watch the video.
• Awesome: The “Is This Art?” iPhone app I helped work on (with the Mattress Factory and Deep Local and the awesome Jeff Inscho), made Technology in the Arts year-end Top Ten!! Don’t have the app? Find it here.
• ¡Art World Smackdown, Super Duper High-Brow Edition! The Met vs. The New York Review of Books.
• The Day in Super Rich Artist Lawsuits: Jeff Koons goes after San Francisco shop for selling balloon dog bookends. Up next: Koons sues guys who make balloon dogs. (Eyeteeth.)
• William Powhida’s guide to the art market, as explained by Felix Salmon.
• Speaking of which… Things you can buy if you have crazy amounts of money: A bullet-scarred Warhol that once belonged to Dennis Hopper.
• A thoughtful essay by Sharon Butler on James Panero’s “Jerry Saltz problem.”
• Exit Through the Gift Shop could just be an Oscar contender. Sorta related: Let the fight for credit begin! Swiss filmmaker says his work was used in the film, yet went uncredited.
• What a difference just a couple of years makes. An incredible photo essay documents lightning speed change in Mongolia. (Gracias, Big Papi G.)
• Manga farming.
• Street artists protest the removal of Blu’s mural at LA MoCA with lasers. Video here.
• Today’s Street Art: Fighmoen in Mexico City.
• The Day in Awesome Graffiti Music Finds: The World’s Best Ever has audio of REVS’s 1993 punk album.
• The Architectural Industrial Average Is Up: Billings at their highest since 2007. (@Architizer.)
• The stunning world of tampon cozies.