Alex Needham ranks SFMoMA’s showing of Cindy Sherman (now on view at the Walker) among 2012’s top shows. Visiting the career survey, he writes, “it became apparent that Sherman’s unsettling ability to expose the workings of stereotypes has intensified with time.”

Yoko Ono and her son, Sean Lennon, took out a full-page ad in Monday’s New York Times urging Gov. Cuomo to “Imagine There’s No Fracking.” The ad calls for an alternative to hydraulic fracturing, a method of harvesting natural gas.

Sylvia Chivaratanond, former Walker curatorial fellow in Visual Arts, has been appointed the first Suzanne Deal Booth Adjunct Curator of American Art for the Pompidou, where she’ll work on increasing the center’s holdings of works by US-based artists.

MOCA and USC are reportedly considering a partnership. While talks are preliminary, the pairing of the private university with the financially struggling LA museum could “enhance the missions of both institutions,” says a USC provost.

Turner winner Elizabeth Price says her career would’ve been impossible without education and public funding— both of which are imperiled in the UK. She fears art will become “available only to privileged people, and expressive only of that experience.”

A day after Theaster Gates was named one of 50 new USA Fellows, BR&S runs a Q&A with Gates on his dOCUMENTA (13) project, 12 ballads for Huguenot House, which he says is about “the possibility of culture in abandoned spaces.”

Artists, museums, and public art groups are increasingly looking to veterans—both to tell stories of war and as valuable audience members. Efforts range from Nina Berman’s photos of disfigured vets to a listening station staffed by veterans in Times Square.

Three outside curators have been tapped to curate the 2014 Whitney Biennial. Stuart Comer (Tate), Anthony Elms (ICA Philadelphia), and Michelle Grabner (Art Institute of Chicago) will be advised by WhiBi 2012 curators Elisabeth Sussman and Jay Sanders.

Teresa Margolles, whose work has viscerally addressed drug-related crime in her native Mexico, has been named winner of this year’s Artes Mundi prize. Judges of the £40,000 award cited “the sophistication of her work in confronting an ongoing human tragedy”.