In NYC: Don’t miss Joan Linder’s ballpoint pen drawings at Mixed Greens or Liset Castillo’s apocalyptic photographs of sand castles at Black & White.
And definitely don’t miss Kara Walker at the Whitney.
Sympathy for the Tobacco Industry: Altria is leaving town and, in the process, leaving 42nd Street totally artless.
Art apocalypse story of the day: An economist tells the Times of London that what “people are saying about the contemporary art world today is what they were saying about the Nasdaq in 1999, a year before it crashed.” (This story is also worth reading for all the flame-throwing quotes by New York art dealer Richard Feigen: “Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst have no place in the history of art.” Booyah!)
Geeks and polar bears rejoice: Al Gore and the U.N. Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change have taken home the Nobel.
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