Around the blogosphere

UPDATE: Posting/tech problems on Thursday, sorry. So (finally) here we go....

First, from late yesterday: Don't miss the news in the post below this one. Or the links in the post below that. 

Somehow it's been a month since I posted an 'around the blogosphere.' (Bad blogger.) There is a 60 percent chance that this will be today's only post (I'm on travel), so visit twice so you can click on extra links...

• An American abroad: Jordanian ruins. Around Damascus. Jordanian and Syrian art, architecture and ruins.
• In Los Angeles, even art museums -- gasp! -- try to act younger than they are;
• Folding Chair has a just-right Lawrence Weiner line(s) on the art world's topic du jour: the market;
• Ever wondered about those funky LCD monitor welcome screens at MoMA? The Walker new media initiatives blog did too;
• A couple days ago I listed the Getty Research Institute gallery as one of my favorite spaces. Mark Vallen hopes that the John Heartfield show at the GRI leads to LA artists considering their own political consciousness;
• Jeff Jahn checked out art in Eugene, Ore., and took a couple of pix of the new Thom Mayne-designed federal courthouse there;
• A number museum-folk have emailed me in recent weeks to ask various questions about how blogs at their institutions might work. The Walker has published a set of posting guidelines that I think would be useful to any arts institution considering a blog;
• Todd Gibson ponders the WhiBi, Janet Cardiff, and graciously admits defeat;
• Lately I've been talking with a lot of museum professionals about the mechanics of showing video art. Josh Azzarella has been grappling with the same questions -- but form an artist's point of view. (Also here.)
• Sweetly bizarre;
• Completely, totally, fantastically awesome documentary photography of how the Army Corps of Engineers has (attempted to) muscle the Mississippi River into place;
• Speaking of documentary photography, Eyeteeth tells us about Rachel Papo's photography about girls and compulsory military service in Israel;
• Rothko wrote -- and publishes;
• A preview of the Diller Sciofido + Renfro-designed ICA Boston (with pics) from HubArts; and 
• It kills me that I haven't been able to go to the Bonnard retro in Paris. Ionarts describes the show (with pix) and by so doing kills me.