
Art for Stoners: A video installation by Michael Bell-Smith at Foxy Production in NYC, through February 16th. More videos here and here.
- “There has never been a better time to take a whiz in Washington”: Stephen Colbert gets his portrait hung (by the bathroom) at the National Portrait Gallery in D.C. (Via NY Mag.)
- Good luck with that: An economist tries to understand the economics of the art industry in a new book, the $12 million Stuffed Shark.
- In related news: The next art market: Dubai.
- ¡¡Artworld Smackdown: Cold War Edition!! Russia versus the British Council. (Get the background.)
- ¡¡Artworld Smackdown: Blogger Throwdown Edition!! Anaba versus Modern Art Notes.
- Astor, Green and Lacayo ruminate on the LACMA/Broad mess.
- Graff of the Day: Passenger in Santa Barbara.
- The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal.
- The identity of the Mona Lisa: As (not) enthralling as finding out who Deep Throat was.
- Kanye West, architecture critic.
- Frank Gehry to do an architectural installation this summer at London’s Serpentine Gallery.
- Bouncy balls take over Rome’s Spanish steps.
- The Earth—without people.
- In Austin: The World is Making Us Look Bad, with William Hundley, Paul Moncus, Stacey Farrar and Peter VonDiest at Bolm Gallery, opening Saturday.
- In Chicago: Least Wanted: A Century of American Mugshots at Intuit, opening tomorrow, and Nicolas Lampert’s machine animal collages at Gescheidle.
- In L.A.: Graciela Iturbide at the Getty Center. (Via marshallastor.com.)
- In São Paulo: Made in America (featuring Dalek, Camille Rose Garcia and Tim Biskup, among many others) at Choque Cultural Gallery, in collaboration with Jonathan Levine, opening Saturday.
- In China: Jinhua Architecture Park.
- Your moment of Peanuts, hey ya edition.
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