Art Behind Bars: According to her attorney, Lindsay Lohan is whiling away her 90 days in prison "eating some Twizzlers" and "creating art." [Toronto Sun] 



– The Screenings Must Go On: LACMA's imperiled film program will be funded for a while longer thanks to a $75,000 million donation from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The museum, however, is still looking to raise $5 million more for its movieseries. [LAT]

– Mustachioed Travel: Delta has adorned the nose of a 757 plane with Salvador Dali's distinctive facial hair in honor of the High Museum's upcoming exhibition. [ArtDaily]
  

– A Tour of Dennis Hoppers Home: Look inside the Frank Gehry-designed house of the late actor, director, and artist, now on the market for $6.245 million. [Shine] 

– "A Universal Symbol of Hate": The Anti-DefamationLeague has stopped counting swastika incidents in its annual tally of anti-Semitic acts, decreeing that the ancient image, has evolved intoa sign of near indiscriminate discrimination. [NYT] 

– High Bid at Auction: An octogenarian trying to sell a painting that he had previously purchased at a post office auction discovered that it contained four pounds of marijuana within the frame. Driving home to call his lawyer, he recalls, “I kept telling the driver, ‘Cool it, slow down.’ He said, ‘I’m only going 45.’” [WSBTV]  

– Kim Jong-il and the "Sea of Blood": The North Korean leader is credited with having, at least in part, directed a new production of the opera, which now has been received in China by enthusiastic audiences. [NYT]

– That's Some Heavy Stuff, Wagner: The set for the Met's staging of the Ring Cycle has arrived in New York, weighing in at 45 tons. [NYT]

– "A Rabbi Came Bare-Chested and Wearing Leather": The first museum exhibition of Leonard Nimoy's photography has opened at MASS MoCA, putting on view the "Spock" actor's portraits of people from all walks of life exposing their secret selves. [NYT]  

– Restored and Remarkable: Karen Wilken does a thorough reading of Thomas Eakins's 1875 "Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic)," which is newly spruced up and on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. [WSJ]

– Nicholas Carone, 1917–2010: The artist, who was represented by the Washburn Gallery, was one of the last living Abstract Expressionists. [NYT]  


– Sam Francis Foundation Donates Work to the Milwaukee Art Museum: The gift includes 500 prints dating from the early 1960s to the 1990s. [ArtDaily] 


– Vermont Cow Vandal Caught?: A suspect accused of damaging various art cows in the Northeast Kingdom has been jailed. [AP]