“Money and celebrity has cast a shadow over the art world which is prohibiting ideas and debate from coming to the fore,” said critic David Hickey in announcing he’s turning his back on contemporary art.

Just in time for Halloween, MoMA has compiled a list of its spookiest works on display. Works included a baby doll assemblage from Joseph Cornell, Stephen Armellino’s Bullet Proof Mask, and Edvard Munch’s The Scream.

Vito Acconci has been named Designer of the Year by Design Miami, the field’s top commercial fair. The performance art pioneer began designing buildings and public projects in the late '80s, including a NY subway station and a project in the Philadelphia airport.

Riffing on ArtReview’s Power 100 list, Hyerallergic offers its annual look at the “20 Most Powerless People in the Art World.” Among those making the cut: art-world progressives, Odd Nerdrum, and the feminism-damaging Gallery Girls of reality-TV fame.

A project by Krzysztof Wodiczko, whose work is featured in our exhibition The Living Years, has been extended. From Nov. 8 to Dec. 9, he’ll be projecting sounds and images from Iraq and Afghanistan war vets onto the Lincoln statue in NY’s Union Square.

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.