Some 300 drawings from the 1950s have been unearthed in the Warhol Foundation’s storage. To be published for the first time in a book next week, they show “a skilled and sensitive draughtsman producing images that are more Egon Schiele than pop art.”

Landscape designer, furniture builder, conceptual artist, blogger, avid researcher: Matt Olson’s diverse passions come together in ROLU, the experimental design studio he founded with Mike Brady in Minneapolis. When we asked him about his favorite moments of 2012, he unsurprisingly took a diverse look at culture, listing the year’s best in art and design, spirituality and technology.

Barry McGee, whose first US museum solo show was at the Walker in 1998, has created a giant mural on the side of the Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn. Measuring 96 by 67 feet, it includes his signature text, figures, and geometric shapes.

The Newseum in Washington is hosting a free-speech message through Jan. 19. With the Hirshhorn, it’s projecting images of Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei’s work on the 74-foot-tall marble First Amendment tablet on its exterior.

Just as art in Abraham Cruzvillegas’ forthcoming Walker exhibition, The Autoconstrucción Suites, includes found objects, the Mexico City–based artist’s best-of-2012 list includes a sampling of items from all over, including literature, sculpture, journalism, film, and his personal life, which is the category of his year’s top moment: the birth of “La Dragona,” his daughter Ana.

Carmen Herrera, now 98, has been painting daily for 80 years, but of all the work she’s made there are “not too many” she still likes. “Sometimes I’m very pleased, sometimes not so pleased, but it takes me a little while to know that a painting is garbage.”

Fear not, allergy sufferers! Wolfgang Laib’s 18x21 ft. work Pollen from Hazelnut, opening at MoMA Jan. 23, shouldn’t trigger sneezes. There have been “no known incidents” in 36 years of Laib’s use of pollen, according to a report from (fittingly) Hyperallergic.

As officials debate the fate of government buildings damaged by a 2011 car bomb in Oslo, the fate of a series of concrete murals by Picasso is in the balance. Discussions are underway about how or if to preserve art created for the now-uninhabitable buildings.