Hrag Vartanian

The Italian filmmaking team of Angela Ricci Lucchi and Yervant Gianikian will be having a retrospective at the Modern.

The pair's signature style often involves the manipulation of rare footage through re-photographing, selectively hand-tinting, and altering film speed to produce a final work of a distinctly otherworldly quality. Their visuals—often enhanced with original music—unravel ideologies and conflicts in a given moment in history.

The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian is putting its 800,000-object collection online.

"the Brooklyn Museum is planning more exhibits around its own collections"…if this is true this would be great…the Brooklyn Museum doesn't do a good job of showing its own stuff so this could very well be a blessing. (via C-Monster)

Free Madoff & Greenspan as SubPrime-American…if north Brooklyn got any more ironic I think it would drown in an ocean of it.

The Philly bloggers spot some quirky works that portray our new Prez is various acts of heroism:
* Barack Obama relieves Sisyphus from his job as rock mover
* Barack rescues the Last Unicorn from Abu Ghraib
* Barack uses his ice breath to save the polar ice caps
* Barack Obama uses his magic tears to give men more staying power
* Barack saves a kitty!

Joanne say it ain't so.

AMNP pointed to this story that the Rem Koolhaas stadium in Beijing may soon be a mall.

A moment of Obama & homelessness

Some facial street art imagery from the Israeli metropolis

I wish more organizations did this.

For February’s Art Poll By Bob, love is in the air (in honor of Valentine’s Day) and the question is: “Which of these famous kisses gets you in the mood?”