– Artist's Space: To mark the completion of the Discovery crew's work on the International Space Station, the mission's six astronauts ceremoniously placed a sticker on the station's wall with a design by Robert McCall, the legendary NASA
artist whose murals and paintings of hovering spacemen and futuristic
starcraft glorified the space program and still today adorn some of the
more far-out offices of the Pentagon. [Space.com]

– Want to Live in Bieberopolis?: Teen pop star and sociological phenom Justin Bieber
has decided that all those screaming girls and million-dollar checks
are just kid's stuff, and that what he really wants to do is be an
architect, reports the Guardian's Jonathan Glancey. Come to think of it, Frank Lloyd Wright kind of was the Bieber of his day. [Guardian]

– Almost There: New York's nearly completed Museum of African Art has received a $3 million cash infusion from the Ford Foundation,
inching it within $14 million of the $90 million fundraising target for
the construction of the upper Museum Mile building, now slated to open
this fall due to delays. [NYT]  

– British 9/11 Sculpture Opposed: Family members of U.K. victims of the 9/11 attacks have halted the installation of Miya Ando's sculptural monument — made of steel girlders salvaged from the World Trade Center rubble — along the banks of the Thames, between London's City Hall and the Tower Bridge. [Guardian]

– Artists Donate Artangel Collection to Tate: Works by video artists including Jeremy Deller, Douglas Gordon, Steve McQueen, and Catherine Yass are being donated to the British institution by the arts group Artangel, which is celebrating its 20th year. [Guardian]

– Harrods Peddles Yves Klein Knock-Off: The Lalique
department of the London department store is selling 19.5-inch blue
crystal versions of "La Victoire de Samothrace," a reproduction of which
the conceptual artist bought at the Louvre gift shop in 1960,
intending to reproduce it in his trademark IKB color. Harrods' version
of the limbless, winged blue figure is going for £75,000 and is in an
edition of 83. [Telegraph]

– We're Sick of Armory Show Photos, But...: This is too cute. [Art Fag City]

– Walid Raad Wins Hasselblad Award: The Lebanese-American photographer has received the 2011 edition of the prize doled out annually by Sweden's Hasselblad Foundation.
Raad has been given 1,000,000 krona ($150,000), a diploma, and a medal,
and he will have a show of his work at Hasselblad's space at the Gothenburg Museum this November. [Art Review]

– Man Ray on the Runway: The title of Paris Fashion Week's Jean-Charles de Castelbajac show was "Woman Ray," and models donned giant-eyeball-photograph hats, among other surreal items. [NYM]

— Bad Vibes for Chillida Cave: Despite the concern of cultural,
environmental, and archaeological groups, Spain's Canary Islands have
revived plans to realize a project of late artist Eduardo Chillida
— a massive €75 million cave, which involves excavating the equivalent
of a ten-story building. The mountain is already the site of more than
200 ancient carvings, which could be jeopardized by the project. [TAN]

— Garden Closing: The Huntington Library is shuttering its Japanese Garden for a year starting April 4 for renovations. [LAT]

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– VIDEO OF THE DAY: Artist David Ellis walked away with the Pulse Prize for his kinetic sound installation "True Value (Paint Fukette)," which attracted a lot of attention at the Joshua Liner Gallery's
booth at last week's satellite fair. The prize is awarded to an artist
in Pulse's "Impulse" section, with booths devoted to solo shows of work
created in the last two years. But the real question is, will urban
street drummers now have to worry about being replaced by automated
artworks created by technology-savvy artists? [Vimeo]