The New Museum – which is to soon launch its new Triennial via WorldArchitectureNews

The New Museum announces its list of  fifty artists for “The Generational” aka “Younger than Jesus” [ArtDaily]
Sam Taylor-Wood on herself, rats, and her newest work [GuardianUK]
After this week’s auctions, the FT declares the art auction market still has a pulse [Financial Times]
A thoughtful look into Elizabeth Peyton’s enigmatic portraits [Wall Street Journal]

Shepard Fairey via LATaco

Shepard Fairey encounters copyright issues concerning his iconic campaign imagery [BBC] and, separately, is arrested in Boston for outstanding tagging violations while en route to DJ the opening party for his exhibit [Boston Globe]
Though Gladstone Gallery’s pension was on the list of Madoff clients, funds were pulled before major losses were sustained [Bloomberg]
A few of the lady’s at Christie’s stay optimistic amidst the new austerity [NYTimes]

Erasmus portrait purported to be by Holbein the Younger, via The Art News

Experts speculate that new portrait of Erasmus is by Holbein the Younger [ArtInfo]
Art auction houses have always been touted as the most transparent transactions in the system, but they are  far more complex and secretive, and in recent years, much more is at stake [Financial Times]
Review of critic Michael Fried’s latest book: Why Photography Matters… [Artforum]

Shepard Fairey’s ‘Hope’ portrait of Barack Obama, via AP

Smithsonian acquires Shepard Fairey’s ‘Hope’ portrait of Obama [ArtInfo]
White Cube’s Jay Jopling’s rise to power and the current pressure from a failing market, gossip tabloids [The Times UK]

Brad Pitt portrait in daguerreotype by Chuck Close, via W Magazine

Chuck Close’s daguerreotype portrait of Brad Pitt is W Magazine’s new cover [W Magazine]
The Vatican aims to exhibit art in a ‘national pavilion’ during the Venice Biennale as a counbterpoint to “blasphemous” modern art [Times UK]

Black on Maroon (1959) by Mark Rothko, part of the Seagram mural series, via Tate Modern; studies for the Seagram series are owned by Ezra Merkin, who lost billions to Bernie Madoff ‘s investment scheme.

Assailed Madoff victim has 12 Rothkos; collectors salivate [Bloomberg]
The Art Newspaper explores the changing emerging art markets of China, and Russia here, and India here [Art Newspaper]

After John Currin’s recent success, against the market, at the November auctions (as covered by AO here), an analysis of his work complete with slideshow [Slate via Artmarketmonitor]
NightTalk has an interview with gallerist Mary Boone [Clipsyndicate]
Some NYC galleries are expanding in a downturn [ArtInfo]

Murakami’s Kakai Kiki creates a signature sneaker [TheMoment]
Undeniably influential through his iconic images during the Obama campaign, street art legend Shepard Fairey named a GQ man of the year [Supertouch]
Damien Hirst soon to open his bed and breakfast in Devon, UK [FirstPost]
Tracey Emin states that despite the seeming art-recession, she is “pretty credit-crunch proof” [TelegraphUK]
With prices lower at auction, MoMA acquires [NYTimes]

Damien Hirst via TheDailyMail

Science, Damien Hirst’s corporation, tops the ArtReview power 100, Gagosian follows, and MoMA’s Kathy Halbreich is first woman to make the top 10 [ArtInfo]
Designer Yohji Yamamoto uses museum curators in New York, Paris, London and Antwerp as models in latest campaign [TheMoment]
PaperMag’s latest issue interviews artworld figures such as Terence Koh, Cecily Brown, Tauba Auerbach, Shepard Fairey and James Fuentes [PaperMag]
Sotheby’s secures $250 million loan from Bank of America while cutting auction guarantees [Bloomberg}
A Liechtenstein billionare is on his second attempt to build 23,000 sf Las Vegas Museum of Contemporary Art [ArtForum]
What happens to the corporate artwork of failed companies? [WallStreetJournal]
Jake Chapman interviewed on, for example, his ideal home: with six or seven of his enemies hanging from trees in front of it [GuardianUK]
Fashion designer Stella McCartney and Artist Ed Ruscha together on Iconoclasts [SundanceChannel]

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Colossal Promenade via Telegraph.co.uk

Richard Serra’s ambitious installation in Paris [Telegraph.co.uk]
‘Obey’ artist Shepard Fairey faces diabetic blindness [Animal NY]
How famed critics Greenberg, Rosenberg impacted markets of De Kooning and Pollack [Financial Times]
British artist trial set for manslaughter [NY Times]
American Embassy in Beijing to feature major contemporary works [Art Info]

iGoogle Themes by Jeff Koons via High Snobiety

Google recently launched a new customization feature which allows users to choose the background of their search toolbars. They’ve recruited 68 of today’s influential creatives in music and fashion as well as artists such as Shepard Fairey and Jeff Koons.

Glossary of iGoogle Artist Themes [Google]
Google Gets Dressed [Nylon Magazine]
Artist themes for Google [Boing Boing]

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Bond No. 9 via Portfolio

Bond No. 9 Captures “Essence” of Warhol with New Perfume [Portfolio]
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Photographer Taryn Simon Accesses Restricted Areas In Her Latest Book [The World’s Best Ever]
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Gallery Owner, Lawrence Salander, Risks Eviction by Aby Rosen [bloomberg.com]
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Shepard Fairey Endorses Obama With Iconic Image [Cool Hunting]
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Shedding light on much hyped Sale: Hirst and White Cube Insured Diamond Skull, For the Love of God [The Art Newspaper]
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Art Cologne Drops Chief, Worries About Future [bloomberg.com]
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Proposed: World’s Largest Sculpture Garden in France [Art Forum]