Hope everyone has had a good week. Here is a brief roundup of some of the things you might have missed this week. I still haven’t checked out the Olafur Eliasson show at the MCA. I have heard a lot of really great things so hopefully I will get a chance to catch it this weekend. Next week we should be introducing a new addition to the BAS blog. Check back next week to see who.
• Cannes Film Festival winners
• “Beginning with early 20th century paintings by French artist Suzanne Valadon and ending with works by up-to-the-minute figures such as Japan’s Mariko Mori…” How “up to the minute” is Mariko Mori? The LA Times covers the Pompidou Center’s all female show.
• Proximity’s sister mag PR will be releasing issue 2 this Sunday, the 31st at the Hyde Park Art Center.
• A Time to Get brought us a brief history of the Van’s skate shoes. Wicked.
• The Hamilton Wood Type Museum in Wisconsin is celebrating their 10th 10th Anniversary this weekend.
• Now that Lauren has outed me on loving cat videos check out Play Him Off Keyboard Gato.
• BLD BLOG interviewed Richard Mosse about Saddam’s Palaces.
• Kyle Gann  will be giving a talk at University of Chicago on Sunday at 2:00pm
• Have you checked out the Marma Spot?

A webchat with Andy Warhol, Oliver Laric (http://oliverlaric.com/webchat.htm)

Here’s what’s got my attention, web-wise, so far this week:

*San Diego Museum of Art director Derrick R. Cartwright appointed director of the Seattle Art Museum.

*Art Institute of Chicago director James Cuno hopes to initiate massive fundraising drive for free Museum admission.

*No Boys Allowed: yearlong exhibition at the Pompidou Center is for women-only.

*Barack Obama: The Freshman.

*Now on Vimeo: watch the NYFA Panel Discussion on ‘How the Recession Has Impacted the Art World’ (featuring Edward Winkleman, Sean Elwood, Stephanie Howe, Kay Takeda; via Edward_Winkleman).

*Scope Basil is only three weeks ago away, and still ‘aint got no permit.

*”I spent a year asking why the contemporary art bubble was the biggest, bubbliest bubble of them all”:  Ben Lewis’ The Great Contemporary Art Bubble preview clip on YouTube ( ART21′s Ben Street has a funny post on the film too).

*Boing Boing writer Joel Johnson chides Wired Online for being clueless about the importance of online media–a great post, but look to the comments for the real dirt. (via ArtFagCity’s Twitter).

*Speaking of Twitter, it could be coming to a t.v. near you.

*Grrr. Argh: Monster Kid Home Movies (via Boing Boing).

*Pierogi’s famed flat files now searchable online. (via Art Fag City).

*A live conversation with a dead Andy Warhol, via psychic via webchat (via Rhizome.org).

*Beautiful/Decay needs YOU to help pick the theme for its next limited-edition publication. Winner gets a copy of the book. For free!

*Applications for the 2009 William H. Johnson Prize are now available. Due date is July 31st. (Via Artipedia).