Hello, ladies! From the Least Wanted archive: A mug shot of fortune tellers in New York City, 1943. (Image courtesy of LW.)

• “Make a cruel and offensive offer.” Papers filed in a lawsuit reveal negotiating tactics at Gagosian. Juicy.
• N+1 has a must-read essay on the general oleaginousness of Sotheby’s, which makes their treatment of unionized art handlers even more nausea-inspiring.
• If you go to a shit farm, you’ll find shit: Morley Safer went to Art Basel Miami Beach and found general vapidity. Duh!
• Roberta Smith deconstructs Safer’s “clueless exercise.” She also takes a dig at “semi-informed” bloggers. (Because lord knows I’ve *never* read anything semi-informed in the New York Times.)
• Jerry Saltz has challenged Safer to curate a show. I’d like to suggest that Safer hang out with those Sotheby’s art handlers instead of hobnobbing with Larry Gagosian. You know, something informed and incisive, rather than mere gum-flapping.
• Speaking of which: The price of art fairs. Highly interesting piece, even if it appears to be missing the line items for rent-a-boyfriends and cocaine.
• Urban Outfitters — a company with a Santorum-supporting CEO — sells (or sold?) T-shirt featuring gay icon Robert Mapplethorpe.
• On the world of art celebrity: Klaus Biesenbach and his Twitter feed. (Gallerist NY.)
• Larry Rivers’ Legs: Are they a sculpture? Or a structure? I love it when these scintillating questions get asked.
• A round-up of interesting artist websites. (Have to agree with Hyperallergic: the David Hockney copyright disclaimer is pretty douchey.)
• Sasha Frere-Jones, in defense of Twitter.
• Will the train ever leave the station? On trying to fund Jeff Koons’ steaming piece of boner art.
• Plus: Heart As Arena comes up with a tasteful alternative to Koons’ dangling locomotive.
• Remembering Hilton Kramer…and his incredibly right-wing politics. (Read this all the way through. The end is pretty spectacular.)
• Teaching Art in 89 Simple Lessons: If the producers of Work of Art had employed this book to come up with the challenges in the show things coulda been really interesting…
• The Gallery of Default Anonymity.
• Related: Screenshots of Despair.
• Just because: Snoop Dogg’s Soundcloud.