– "Van Gogh would have loved it": David Hockney,who used to sketch on his iPhone, is over the moon about the iPad — andhis work on it seems to place him even more squarely in thequasi-decorative tradition of Bonnard and Vuillard than usual. [Bloomberg] 

– Behind an Instant Blockbuster: How was the Met able to put together its current Picasso show at the last minute? Last year director Thomas Campbell "simply said, ‘Can we do this for April?’ And I said we could try,” according to the exhibition's curator, Gary Tinterow. [The Observer]  

– What's With All the Art Jails?: Adrian Searle gives an audio tour of Christoph Buchel's Glasgow International contribution, which is the latest claustrophobic prison-themed installation to follow those f Sterling Ruby and Claude Lévêque. [Guardian]

– He Split the Photographic Atom: Karen Rosenberg writes how Eadweard Muybridge, apart from being a propagandist and an acquitted murderer, brought photography to a new level of scientific inquiry. [NYT]

– The Car Theft Was an Art Heist: A 1994 Nissan Sunny that artist Clara Ursitti had scented with the aroma of a Rolls Royce was stolen on its way to be shown at in the U.K.'s Tatton Park Biennial. [The Art Newspaper]

– Meet the Bollygarchs: The Telegraph devotes an article to the infusion of super-rich Indian magnates living in London who are expected to be a force at the upcoming art auctions there. Are you listening, dealers? [Telegraph]

VIDEO OF THE DAY: Guggenheim chief curator Nancy Spector discusses the artists shortlisted for the Hugo Boss 2010 Prize. 

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