It has felt like a rather slow week for art news. Here are some of the stories you might have missed this week via our twitter page.  On this weeks roundup you will find Japan’s bad ass million dollar, robot flying Spiderman, the history of the pubic wig, and one young man’s thoughts on the Walker art Center. Hope everyone has a great weekend. Maybe we’ll see you at the Hyde Park Art Center on Saturday.

• reBlog has a great chart/video of the most common letters and stylistics variations in graffiti.
• Just when it looked like the Children’s Museum could move to Grant Park the economy catches up with them.
• The 70′s intro for the Japanese Spiderman is awesome. Why didn’t the American one have a flying robot?
• The World’s Best Ever has a surprisingly interesting history of the pubic wig.
• I’ve never road a bike down a mountain, which might explain why I have never thought about the history of Mountain biking. Klunkerz: A Film About Mountain Bike History
• Proximity’s sister publication Pr now has it’s own site. Be sure to check out some of their online content.
• “…art is only for the artist but then if it’s only for the artist why is it on exhibit at the Walker?” Probably the best review of an art museum ever written. (via eyeteeth)
• RT @wired Blind photographers use gadgets as visual prosthetics, and continue making art. This is what it’s all about.

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?

Has anyone gone to see the new Star Trek movie? Nichelle Nichols was a totally better Uhura than Zoe Saldana. She just looks so bad ass in that pic.

Here are some of the stories from this past week. Have a great three day weekend!

• Stolen Moore Now Scrap Metal, Police Say: Bronze sculpture had been missing since December 2005.
• Proximity has posted photos from this years Version Fest and the Chicago Art Parade.
• Studio 360 had BAS pal Lori Waxman discuss reinventing the critic.
• RISD cuts budget to deal with their increasingly low endowment. Museum will be closed for the month of August.
• The future of art museums.
• Frank Lloyd Wright LEGO of The Guggenheim. I was excited at first but $55! It its not even that large.
• The National Portrait Gallery has a video tour of the Francis Alÿs Fabiola installation.
• BTW, Canada was sort of sucking ass this week with two lame news stories. Let us also remember that there are no Canadian teams in the Stanley Cup Conference Finals. Take that Duncan!