The New Yorker has reviewed Richard Prince’s retrospective at the Guggenheim, which comes to the Walker in March 2008. (For some reason, the review is dated Oct. 15 — three days from now.) In calling the show “seductive,” Peter Schjeldahl, the magazine’s art critic, says this: “If ‘quintessential artist in a generation’ were a job opening, Prince … would be an inevitable hire.” Doesn’t sound like much of an EOE…

For those of you with low cash flows but rising internet currency, here’s a new way to show bling: An LED ring that displays the current number of Google hits a search on your name generates. Just slip it into a docking station at your computer, do a search, take the ring, and go, confident of your (ahem) net worth. Here’s a video on the VanityRing.

Jim and Mary Barr compile a list of quotes about the art market from Jerry Saltz’ New Yorkessay, Has Money Ruined Art? My favorite is by David Hammons: “The system is making people offers they can’t refuse when it should be making them offers they can’t understand.” Meanwhile Tyler Green points out Hayward Gallery director Ralph Rugoff‘s thoughts on the art market and how “it certainly has an effect…

“We are shifting the axis of the world…” On the 67th anniversary of John Lennon’s birth, Yoko Ono commemorates a Peace Tower in Reykjavic with a poem. Avant-Rustic: Aside from its Santiago Cucullu wall mural, Blu Dot cofounder John Christakos’ cabin in Minong, Wis., is just like any other cabin. Right? “Creative people must be stopped!” Michael Fallon ponders that bumpersticker-inspired thesis: “[W]e’ve become…

Pettibon’s albums: Paddy Johnson looks at Raymond Pettibon‘s album cover art, from classics for Black Flag, the Minutemen and Sonic Youth to a Jim Dine-inspired heart for the Foo Fighters. The artist currently known as Prince: While Roberta Smith at the New York Timesgives Richard Prince’s Guggenheim retrospective ample coverage, I’m more a fan of VBS.tv’s Art Talk multi-part series on the artist. He…

Aki honored: The Reykjavik International Film Festival opened last week with a concert by Sigur Ros and the awarding of the 2007 Creative Excellency Award by Iceland’s president Olafur Ragnar Grimmson to Aki Kaurismaki, subject of a 2004 Regis Dialogue and Retrospective at the Walker. The Loneliest Icelander: Iceland has already withdrawn its two troops from the “Coalition of the Willing” in Iraq…