Martin Puryear, "Some Lines for Jim Beckwourth," 1978. Photo courtesy Moma.org
- Will Barnet, Martin Puryear, and art philanthropist Emily Rauh Pulitzer receive the National Medal for the Arts at the White House today. [Culture Monster]
- Pop Salad’s Sasha Pasulka wrote a dead-on essay asking what Chris Brown’s attendance at the Grammys says about us. [HelloGiggles]
- Almost every museum in New York is undergoing a renovation right now. [Crain's New York Business]
- The menacingly generous and generously menacing spirit of Steve Jobs lives on as BFA students at Moore College of Art & Design are each promised an iPad 2. [ZDNet]
- The not-quite-likable Moby has added architecture blogging to his list of pursuits. [Guardian]
- Hey, girl. James Rosenquist wishes you a very unsexy Valentine’s Day; he looks like someone’s flaccid uncle. [Artspace]
- The right has embraced a realist painter as their own Shepard Fairey. [Salon]
