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“This is scary.”

The sculpture is currently on display at MoMA in NYC. In Boston, you can see Bourgeois’s work at the Institute of Contemporary Art through March 2, 2008. Read more about her here.

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Untitled, a video installation by Hugh Walton at the Clementine Gallery in NYC. Through Jan. 5th, 2008.

• Geek graffiti: Lichtfaktor in Germany turns up the lights.
• The New Museum: Critics, start your engines. In the line-up today: Ourossoff. La Smith. Lacayo. Jacobs. And the Grrly Rosenbaum. (Johnson coming soon…)
• Updated: My museum is bigger than yours: Miami’s MAM prepares to unveil unveiled (to the NY Times and the Miami Herald) a working design of their new Herzog & De Meuron building.
• A round-up of Martin Puryear Q&As.
• New York City continues its slow slide into suburban police state: last night, cops were busting art nerds for open container violations outside Chelsea galleries.
• Picking through Gaugin’s trash, archaeologists unearth, well, trash.
• I’m a sucker for a Murakami video. Louis Vuitton logos and all.
• The Day in Well-Known Naked People. More here.
• Everybody chill: A thoughtful take on museum-dealer/collector coziness.
• Visual plagiarism smackdown, Version 2.0: Photographer David Field versus the Armando Testa ad agency.
• From the Department of You-Know-It’s-Over- When-It’s-Reported-in-Time: French culture is dead.
• Isozaki: 1. Calatrava: 0. (Via ArtForum.)
• Destroying Old Russia to make way for car parks. (Via ArtsJournal.)
• Newsflash: A majority of Americans don’t trust media coverage of the election.
• In Houston: The Cool School, a film about modern art in L.A., at the Museum of Fine Arts.
• In New York: Aqsa Shakil at Oliver Kamm, Adam Parker Smith at Priska Juschka and Ron English at the Opera Gallery.
• In L.A.: Shepard Fairey at Merry Karnowsky.
• Your moment of movin’ to the groovin’: swing style.

Gothamist has a photo preview of the New Museum in NYC. The good news: The urinals look sensational.

See additional fotos on their flickr page, gothamistllc.

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Titi Freak and Ramon Martins in Brazil. Photo by Ramon Martins.

• Hug It Out Bitches: The best by-product to surface from the writer’s strike.
• Those Pollocks? Not really Pollocks, says a scientific researcher.
• Art or Crap? Mat Gleason of Coagula Art Journal gives us his take on Shepard Fairey, Chris Galligan and Don Ed Hardy, among others. He also reveals that it is possible to open a gallery in L.A. simply by maxing out your credit cards. (Thanks, Jason Lujan, for the link.)
• When art and advertising blend into an indistinguishable mess mass: Calvin Klein shills for the New Museum in an ad that’s visually indebted to The Splasher.
• The Week in Not-So-Exact Science: Scientists are studying more than 500 paintings of sunsets in hopes of gaining insights about climate change.
• “Poo is funny.” A Q&A with street artist Abe Lincoln Jr.
• The U.N. building to get a makeover. No word on whether geo-political relevancy will follow.
• Looted pieces slowly make their way back to Iraq’s National Museum. (Via ArtsJournal.)
• Latin American art market on the rise.
• Bring on the dancing monkeys.
• In L.A.: Ann Summa’s punk pictures at Track 16. (Real punk. Not K-Mart toddler punk.)
• In NYC: The Streets of Europe at Jonathan Levine and Tara Donovan at The Met.
• In Chicago: Two war-related shows: Consuming War at the Hyde Park Art Center and Meanwhile in Baghdad at the Renaissance Society.
• In Bartlesville, Okla.: Build a Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian house out of gingerbread.
• In Seattle: Insubstantial Pageant Faded at Western Bridge.
• Your moment of everyday normalness.

From whom I inherited my subtlety and my skills with deadly weapons.

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M.C. Escher’s Relativity in Legos by Andrew Lipson. Photo by idigit_teddy.

• Art World Smackdown, Visual Plagiarism Edition: Mark Vallen versus Shepard Fairey. (Via Unbeige.)
• The Getty’s Marion True is off the hook in Greece. Now it’s on to Italy. More here.
• In related (alleged) antiquities plundering news: Philippe de Montebello at the Met doesn’t really want to give any more shit back: “I never see a questioner asking ‘Isn’t there value to these objects having been in the western museums, having been studied?’”
• The Basel Frazzle: Where to lube your liver—for F.R.E.E.!
• The day in graffiti trucks: featuring work by Erupto, Route, Smells, Oze and Muk. (Sadly missing my favorite trucks by the Grunt’s Crew and 2ESAE + Reskew.)
• The Second Ave Subway Line: Instead of installing unspeakably bland public art murals, why doesn’t the MTA save itself the cash and just leave the graffiti that has no doubt accumulated on the tunnel walls? (Via Art Observed.)
• Art World Celebrity Deathmatch I Wouldn’t Miss for the World: Damien Hirst versus Banksy.
• The Smithsonians: Leakier than a Frank Lloyd Wright building. And the clowns in Congress don’t want to pay for repairs. (Via Arts Journal.)
• Has the Detroit Institute of Arts been dumbed down? The dead-tree types over at The Art Newspaper think so. (Via Arts Journal.)
• And now for some real news: A round-up of English-language Iraqi blogs.
• Photo Essay: Ninety years of combat portraits.
• But was it built by a Starchitect? The New Museum prepares to open its doors.
• More architecture news nobody cares about (because not even their hometown newspaper seems to have a story about it): Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk of Miami have won the Richard H. Driehaus Prize.
• Architect Fashion: It’s black. And dorky.
• OMG! I so need a Hello Kitty AK-47. (Via Least Wanted.)
• A new affliction in the world of urban planning: The Dubai Syndrome.
• Visual Nuggets: Meredith Allen’s Kiddie Rides series. (Via ArtCal.)
• When Art Imitates iPod Ads: Natasha Sadr Hadighighian at MoMA.
• The Greenpeace guide to greener electronics: Put down that Wii. Nintendo came in dead last. (Via Complex.)
• You know an art party’s good when there’s a mechanical bull.
• Nature Break: Earth at Night.
• Art Headline I wish I’d Made Up: THE TAPESTRIES ARE BACK! And they won’t leave until art historians start taking them seriously.
• American Apparel gets pranked. (Via Juxtapoz.)
• In NYC: Banksy at Vanina Holasek Gallery.
• In London: Russian art sold for lots of money.
• Your moment of splash.