– Spelling and School Values Roil Adams Case: The high-stakes back-and-forth between the Ansel Adams estate and finder/keeper Rick Norsigian over the alleged $200 million photo cache now seems to hinge on questions of the photographer's wife's spelling, while another controversy is brewing over Cal State Fresno's willingness to show the contested works in a school gallery. [LAT]

– Rome's Graffiti Wars: The city has created cleanup squads to combat rampant scrawling, raising fines to up to €300 and ordering taggers to clean up their work when caught, while some Romans defend thegraffiti as a time-honored tradition reaching back to imperial days that also helps prevent the city from becoming an anodyne tourist theme park. [WSJ]

– Chapman Brothers Hold a Coloring Book Competition: The provocative artists, best known for their penis-heavy sculptures and "Fucking Hell" Nazi nightmarescape, are soliciting kids to submit pages from their 2004 "My Giant Colouring Book" — with the best entry winning acopy signed by Jake and Dinos themselves. [Guardian] 

– Did a Babylonian Code Pop Up in China?: Scholars claim two fossilized horse bones bearing sections of the Cyrus Cylinder, an ancientPersian paean to Cyrus the Great that was buried in Babylon in the 6th century B.C., somehow made their way to Beijing's Palace Museum — thoughothers contend they're fakes. [TAN] 

– SFMOMA Names New Trustees: The San Francisco institution, newly enriched by the phenomenal Fisher collection and with an expansion project underway by Snøhetta, has announced the appointment of Yves Béhar as a new artist trustee and Robert J. Fisher, son of Gap founder and art patron Bob Fisher, as president of the board. [Artforum]

– Getty Mulls Picking a President from Inside: There's talk that the collegial, collaborative head of the Getty Research Institute, Thomas Gaehtgens, could be in the running to replace the late James Wood, though the 70-year-old scholar pish-poshes the idea, saying, "I'm an art historian — I'm not interested in the job." [LAT]

– Unesco Adds 21 New World Heritage Sites: The Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, Uganda's tombs of Buganda Kings, and the Evergladeshave been added to the list, bringing the number to 911 worldwide. [CBS]

– Detroit Artists Thrive Amid Rubble: Touring the destitute, nearly-abandoned city's arts community, Melena Ryzik found plentiful notes of optimism among people carving out cheap aesthetic territories from derelict houses along with a newly progressive mayor, with one art magazine publisher saying, "There’s a sense that it’s a frontier again, that it’s open, that you can do things without a lot of people telling you, 'No, you can’t do that.'" [NYT]

– MTV Goes Gaga for Gaga: The world's most visible pop artiste has found herself nominated for a sparkly 13 MTV Video Music Awards trophies. [The Sun]