Jerome Liebling, Butterfly Boy, New York, 1949
• Of Lei Yixin's monument to Martin Luther King, Jr., just unveiled in Washington, Hyperallegic writes: "It is the first monument to a non-US president on the National Mall and the first dedicated to a black American, except, well, it is memorialized in white … to fit in, we assume."
• Meanwhile, in Indianapolis, members of the African-American community are protesting a planned sculpture of a freed slave by Fred Wilson, and in Charlottesville, a resident wants a 1919 sculpture of Sacajawea moved inside because it "obviously denigrates both women and Native Americans."
• RIP Jerome Liebling, photographer, filmmaker and founder of the University of Minnesota's film and photography program. Here's Mike Hazard's short film on the photographer.
• Today Tyler Green's Tumblr blog 3rd of May -- which groups headlines with relevant works of art -- links Otto Dix's Shock Troops Advance Under Gas (1924) from his amazing series The War with news about fears of the safety of Syria's chemical weapons stockpile.
• Warhol contemporary Ultra Violet proposes a Robert Indiana-esque 9/11 memorial.
• Must-read from Pete Brook: How Google's mapping tools have spawned a new breed of art projects, for Wired.
• $278.4 billion: How much "key cultural industries" contributed to the U.S. economy in 2009, according to the NEA.
• Get your geek on: R2D2 sweater.
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