Jen Stark at the Spinello Gallery, in Miami. Photo by C-Monster.
- I Want, I Need, I Have to Have: An L. Ron Hubbard doll.
- Only in the dead tree edition: A Q&A with Os Gemeos in Bomb’s Winter ‘08 issue, in which the twins manage to avoid answering just about every single question. The photos, however, are awesome.
- Iraq’s National Museum now admitting small groups of visitors.
- Bring on the Dancing Dwarfs: The Met scores Arbus archives.
- L.A.’s Norton Simon Museum begins to loosen its death grip on its art.
- Visual Nuggets: NASA Edition. (Via Fecal Face.)
- Newsflash: Charlie Finch is grousing that the visual arts community doesn’t play a role in presidential politics. (And that’s probably for the best, given the pathetic state of national politics.) (Via Winkleman.)
- Modernism ain’t all that, says a new architectural book. (Via Arts Journal.)
- Art Lawsuit of the Week: The story behind those contested Picassos.
- In related news: Classical antiquities, once in the hands of the Getty and the Met, go on display in their new home, Rome.
- How the Art Institute of Chicago ended up with a bogus Gaugin. Plus: Looking Around meditates on the recent industry of fakes.
- When the toilet eats your coke.
- A bit of Open Air, a doc about street art, featuring Espo, Skewville, Tiki J, Faile, Dan Witz and Michael de Feo.
- Necessary merch for the impending apocalypse: the world’s smallest home.
- In a related story: Blinged-out shipping containers you can live in.
- A profile of the man inside the meat suit: Zhang Huan. (Worthwhile for the good photo essay.) If you’re in NYC, don’t miss his show at the Asia Society, on display through January 20th.
- Yay. Now let’s ban them here.
- In Bethlehem: Ron English on the Wall. (More shots here.)
- Your moment of Jean-Claude: splits edition. (Via Fecal Face.)
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