– MoMA Will Cost More: Starting September 1, it will set you back $25 to see Picasso's "Demoiselles d'Avignon," Pollock's "Autumn Rhythm: Number 30," Duchamp's wheely doohickey, and the rest of the museum's art, up from the $20 price in place since 2004. The ticket hike matches the Met's heartbreaking admission increase earlier this year, but that, remember, is merely "suggested." Now going to MoMA will cost the same as going into Danny Meyer's The Modern next door and ordering the Alsatian buckwheat späetzle with yellowfin tuna paillard crudo, roasted foie gras, pine nuts, and black pepper gastrique. [NYT]

– Making a Splash: Iraqi-born architect Zaha Hadid has completed her first major project in London, a gargantuan aquatic center for next year's Olympic games. Costing a whopping $439 million — a price tag that raised no few eyebrows in the British press — the building incorporates Hadid's signature biomorphic forms, including a vaulted ceiling that she describes as "like some sort of sea life floating above you, like a sea creature." [Bloomberg]

– 9/11 Art Show for PS1: In time for the ten-year anniversary of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, MoMA PS1 curator Peter Eleey will fill the museum's whole second floor with art examining how our way of looking at the world has changed as a result of the traumatic events. Intriguingly, two-thirds of the art included was made before 9/11, and only one Ellsworth Kelly piece was made in direct response to that day. [NYT]

– Christo's Colorado Project Advances: The artist's controversial plan to cover 42 miles of the state's Arkansas River with fabric has received a stamp of approval in the form of a Final Environmental Impact Statement from the Bureau of Land Management. "I am very pleased that the BLM selected our proposal for this temporary work of art," Christo said in a statement. "This is the first time in history that a work of art has undergone an Environmental Impact Statement, so this is a significant milestone for us and for artists everywhere who want to create art  on public lands." [Canon City Daily Record]

– Scotland's Story: Today, Edinburgh's National Museum opens a $77.4 million renovation that includes 16 new gallery spaces in the restored Victorian building, and a central "Window on the World," a four-story, 18-meter high display of over 800 objects. In a well-deserved boast, chairman of the board of trustees Sir Angus Grossart says that museum displays "how Scots saw the world, and the disproportionate impact they had upon it." [Telegraph]

– Museum Throw Down: David Ng compares two blockbuster exhibitions currently on display in LA — LACMA's "Tim Burton" and MOCA Geffen Contemporary's "Art in the Streets." "Burton" requires timed entry, while the street art retrospective just needs a normal ticket, "Burton" has a 30 to 40 minute wait, and a 1:8 kid-to-adult ratio. We know which one we would pick. [LA Times]

– The Franco Master Class: The eternally over-committed James Franco is now teaching classes at PS1, in addition to starring on soap operas, doing movies, and writing bad short stories. The museum will present a collaboration between Franco and indie auteur Gus Van Sant, a series of "master classes offering a seminar-style discussion on contemporary practice with artists, authors, musicians, curators, theorists and scholars." [Huffington Post]

– Frog Days of Summer: The Getty Center has installed a rather curious Charles Ray sculpture of a naked boy holding a frog in one outstretched hand. Christopher Knight describes the piece as "a bit of a mixed bag," in part due to the museum's roping off of the area around the outdoor sculpture. [LA Times]