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"\u2013 Frank Gehry, Poster Designer?: The world\u2019s most famous living concert hall designer has taken on another music-related task: designing the official poster for the 54th&amp;nbsp;Grammy Awards. The poster, which depicts the Grammy's trademark golden gramophone in the middle of what appears to be a Gehry-designed city, is reminiscent of the starchitect\u2019s 1991 Chiat/Day building. (Both pair a bizarre, oversize object \u2014 the Grammy or, in the case of Chiat/Day, a pair of binoculars \u2014 in the middle of a Gehry design.) Gehry&amp;nbsp;designed the L.A. Philharmonic's&amp;nbsp;Walt Disney Concert Hall&amp;nbsp;and sits on the board of the philharmonic, which is this year nominated for a Grammy. [LAT]\u2013&amp;nbsp;Alex Prager Gets Naughty for T Magazine: The self-taught photographer Alex Prager shot T Magazine\u2019s cover and online video gallery devoted to cinematic villainy. Inspired by nefarious icons and featuring the best performers from the year in film, the feature depicts&amp;nbsp;Rooney Mara as Alex from  A Clockwork Orange, &amp;nbsp;George Clooney&amp;nbsp;as Captain Bligh from  Mutiny on the Bounty,  and&amp;nbsp;Brad Pitt as Henry Spencer from  Eraserhead. &amp;nbsp;[NYT]\u2013 French  Googleplex  Hosts Cultural Institute: A team of engineers at Google's newly-inaugurated Paris headquarters has been put in charge of the distribution and preservation of culture online.  We offer, for example, virtual museum visits with high res-pictures of landmark artworks,  said cultural institute director Steve Crossan. Google has said it will foot the digitisation processing bill. Perhaps it's an attempt to enroll so-far-reluctant French museums in Google Art Project? [artclair]&amp;nbsp;\u2013 A New President for London's Royal Academy: Christopher Le Brun has been elected the 26th&amp;nbsp;president of the Royal Academy. Le Brun, who is the first ever painter to get the job, said he wanted the RA to become  a major force in contemporary art.  No small task. [BBC]&amp;nbsp;\u2013 Will Casinos Destroy Miami\u2019s Art Scene?: Anti-casino advocates gathered in Wynwood, Miami\u2019s cultural district, over the weekend to discourage lawmakers from approving a bill designed to bring three $2 billion casino resorts to South Florida. \u201CIt\u2019s too big, it overwhelms the entire arts concept we had there,\u201D said Adrienne Arsht Performing Arts Center board chairman Mike Eidson. [Miami Herald]&amp;nbsp;\u2013 The Arts of Occupation: The Nation assesses the range of methods, styles, and tactics adopted by the artists of Occupy Wall Street and probes the tensions surrounding the very category of art itself relative to what might be called the \u201Cspatial politics\u201D of OWS. A must-read for anyone interested in the aesthetics of the movement. [The Nation]\u2013&amp;nbsp;Washington Post's Best of 2011: To kick off the requisite barrage of end-of-year  best of  lists,&amp;nbsp;Philip Kennicott&amp;nbsp;selects the best in art and architecture for the Washington Post. The list ranges from the expected (de Kooning&amp;nbsp;at&amp;nbsp;MoMA, the National September&amp;nbsp;11 Memorial) to the unlikely (a contemporary Mexican photography exhibition at the&amp;nbsp;Art Museum of the Americas and  Xu Bing: Tobacco Project  at the&amp;nbsp;Virginia Museum of Fine Arts). [WaPo]\u2013 Huntington Damaged: The Huntington Library and its surrounding gardens&amp;nbsp;were hit hard by last week\u2019s Santa Ana winds, which caused at least $40 million in damage across Southern California. The library is launching a public appeal for donations to pay for the removal of 50 trees that fell in the storm. [LAT]\u2013 Reasons to Love New York: For New York Magazine\u2019s annual \u201CReasons to Love NY\u201D issue, Jerry Saltz waxes poetic about the city\u2019s galleries, which he calls \u201Cthe greatest single machine ever invented for exhibiting art.\u201D [NYM]\u2013 Art Dubai's Inaugural Residencies Announced: Artists&amp;nbsp;Hadeyeh Badri, Fay\u00E7al Baghriche, Zeinab Al Hashemi, Nasir Nasrallah, Deniz Uster,&amp;nbsp;and Magdi Mostafa have been selected for a three-month residency in the lead-up to Art Dubai, and commissioned to contribute a piece for Art Dubai Projects. Alexandra MacGilp has been selected as curator-in-residence. [e-flux]\u2013 Yoko Ono at the London 2012 Festival: The show, scheduled at London's Serpentine Gallery next summer to coincide with the Olympic Games, will be Ono's most important exhibition in a decade. It will include  SMILE,  a large installation taking place simultaneously online and in the gallery, which invites people to submit photos of themselves smiling. [ArtLyst]\u2013 Worst Album Covers of 2011: Pitchfork rounds up the worst album covers of 2011. Our favorite is Limp Bizkit\u2019s cringe-inducing cover art for its album \u201CGold Cobra,\u201D which is \u201CKeeping Up with the Kardashians\u201D meets Gauguin meets creepy middle-school doodle. [Pitchfork]&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;\u2013&amp;nbsp;Art Detective: The Boston Globe profiles Victoria Reed, the MFA Boston\u2019s curator of provenance. Her job \u201Cis to make sure the MFA is not embroiled in any of the controversies that have swirled through the museum world in the last decade\u201D with respect to looted artworks. To read ARTINFO\u2019s interview with Reed, click here. [Boston Globe]\u2013 Phyllida Barlow Receives the Aachen Art Prize 2012: The \u20AC10,000 ($13,310) biannual award is given to an artist  whose works have continually given new impetus to the international art scene.  The award ceremony will take place on May 13 at the Ludwig Forum, Aachen. [Press Release][content:advertisement-center]&amp;nbsp;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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