Some insidery goss on the art world at ArtsJournal, starting with a nice rant on academic stamps. Thomas Weinberger has some surreally crisp photographs. And these aren't really oil, are they?

And I'm sure its not cool to like Damien Hirst since he started "painting" (nor link to soft-core photorealistic paintings), but his pills really do it for me (ditto former).

Watch this space.

Kinetic work thats not dated or tinkery...

Wade Guyton

Dingy King

Shea Zellweger is occupied with intense, beautiful, nonsensical-seeming, indepth, colorful research.

Jonas Bendiksen took this actual photo of villagers picking up parts of a broken spaceship that fell to earth, while white butterflies flit about. Really.

Behrouz Mehri, Iraq Today:

Dana Schutz, Boy

And one more from Dana, this one for Carmen:

Yuri Leiderman