Anish Kapoor’s Cloud Gate, a giant jellybean-like sculpture, brings tourists in droves to Chicago’s Millennium Park. But its alluring, high-polish stainless-steel surface begs a question: How do they clean “the bean”? WBEZ finds out.

For his 2013 retrospective, James Turrell will transform the Guggenheim’s iconic Frank Lloyd Wright–designed spiral ramps. Using “natural and artificial programmed light” the effect will “look a bit like an eyeball with multiple pupils.”

The 110th minute of the 2006 World Cup final has been immortalized by Adel Abdessemed. Coup de tête, a 5-meter-tall bronze sculpture of footballer Zinedine Zidane headbutting Marco Materezzi is part of Abdessemed’s exhibition at the Pompidou Centre.

From the shaggy Van Gogh beard and ear bandage to the Frida Kahlo monobrow, Hyperallergic’s Hrag Vartanian runs down ideas for Halloween costumes for parents who want to “dress your children like you hate them but love art.”

K-pop phenom PSY did not, in fact, drop by Ai Weiwei’s studio in Beijing this week, as filmmaker Alison Klayman noted online. Still, here’s a sweet shot of Ai and his studio crew dancing to “Gangnam Style.”

“I’m a little allergic to the word power,” says dOCUMENTA (13) curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev on topping ArtReview's “Power 100” list. “I like the words potentiality and potential and possibility, which are all coming from the same etymology.”

“I like the combination of very innocent and not very innocent,” Frank Gaard tells Minnesota Original of the dualism in his art. Subject of the 2012 Walker show Poison & Candy, he says he likes “humor and malevolence… a sugar and spice kind of thing.”

His “is an art that challenges existing norms, but we are used to that in the history of art.” This 1990 quote by then-Walker director Martin Friedman is on the wall at LACMA for a show of Mapplethorpe photos that helped spark the ‘90s culture wars.

Fundraising has begun to erect a monument to “degenerate artists”—creators like Paul Klee, Max Ernst, and Kurt Schwitters who were oppressed by Hitler. The site is in northwest England, where Schwitters settled after fleeing the Nazis in Germany.