This series of 60 panels by artist Jacob Lawrence depicting the great migration of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North, can now be seen in its entirety at MoMa, through September 7. Lawrence was only 23 years old when he completed them on tempera…

Anonymous artists placed a huge statue with the (very good) likeness of Edward Snowden at a war memorial in Brooklyn this week. The statue was promptly covered and warehoused by city workers. A real shame, since Edward Snowden is a hero to many.

Currently taking place in Berlin, is the 11th Pictoplasma conference, “the world’s leading and largest festival of contemporary character culture”. It is probably the most fun, cute and quirky conference on Earth.

We are looking forward to exactly one week from now, May 1, when the museum opens its doors downtown, looking out to the Hudson River, abutting the despicably gentrified Meatpacking (where’s the beef?) district, and anchoring our…