– Andy Warhol, the Internet Movie: A film — or, as it is billed, "cinematic seance" — on the life and death of Andy Warhol will be launched online at 10:21pm on February 22 — exactly 25 years after the legendary Pop artist's death. The narrator in the trailer looks a bit more Rocky than Warhol (he's wearing a hooded sweatshirt), but the manic scene splices make the whole thing feel just crazy enough to be appropriately Pop. [Andy X via Frieze]

– Rogue Guggenheim Scammer Pleads: John Knox Bridges, a North Carolina man who defrauded associates out of more than $2.3 million by pretending to be a jet-setting playboy who served on the board of the Guggenheim Museum, pleaded guilty on Thursday. Among the victims snookered by his claims was an artist, fresco painter Ben Long. Bridges will likely be sentenced to more than four years in prison. [Charlotte Observer] 

– Palais de Tokyo Gets Even Bigger: The Paris institution will reopen on April 12 with a renovated and expanded facility, grandly billing herself as the largest contemporary art center in Europe. To celebrate the renovation, it will stay open for 36 hours straight, just as it did the first time it opened, with a program of performances and 50 site-specific installations by artists including Christian Marclay. [Press Release]

– Bomb Archives Go Online: The quarterly art magazine, which brought you engaging artist-on-artist interviews like Vito Acconci talking to Richard Prince and Laurie Anderson chatting with Marina Abramovic, will upload its remaining archives online over the next three years. With the help of a $138,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, readers will be able to access the magazine's 20-plus years of edited transcripts and essays, which were previously available only to scholars. [NYT] 

– Meet "The Ungovernables": The Wall Street Journal profiles the four New York artists who will be featured in the New Museum's forthcoming triennial: performance artist Dave McKenzie and sculptors Julia Dault, Iman Issa, and Abigail DeVille. [WSJ] 

– No More Digital Cameras for Kodak: Attention artists and photographers — continuing with the restructuring that followed its bankruptcy filing last year, the firm Eastman Kodak announced yesterday that it will stop producing digital cameras to concentrate on the sale of patents, printers, and printing services. [Paris-Art]

– Violent Obama Art (By Teens) Causes Outrage: Drawings depicting malicious images of President Barack Obama have caused controversy at a New Orleans junior high school. At least one parent saw the artwork posted on walls around the school. Since then, the president of the local branch of the NAACP has met with the school superintendent, who promises "the appropriate disciplinary action will be taken." [Times-Picayune]

– Turkish Art Market on the Rise?: Turkish modern art has rapidly developed into a booming market, according to CNN. "Until five or 10 years ago ... the number of artists I could count who were making a living just off of their work was three to five, maybe," said gallery owner Kerimcan Guleryuz. "Now you can look at a work from Taner Ceylan being put in the Sotheby's auction and reaching more than 280,000 pounds sterling ($444,000)." [CNN]

– And the Art Goes Woof!: Taking a break from finding art in the everyday, Randy Kennedy looks for the everyday in art, sniffing out the best dogs in New York City's art collections on the occasion of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. Sample sound bite: "As you might expect, the Met's dogs tend more toward the purebred." [NYT] 

– Do British Children Lack Cultural Exposure?: Four in 10 British children have never seen the inside of an art gallery, according to a study of 2,000 parents of children ages five to 12 throughout the UK. Seventeen percent have not visited a museum with their parents. [Telegraph]

– Rachel Whiteread Plans Gold Whitechapel Frieze: For her first permanent public commission, the 1993 Turner Prize winner has designed a gold-leafed frieze inspired by the Secession building in Vienna and the weeds sprouting in the London borough of Hackney. The piece will be unveiled in June during the London 2012 Festival that will coincide with the Olympic Games. [Guardian]

– Artist Accused of Stealing Own Paintings: North Carolina artist Keith Adams is charged with breaking and entering and larceny after he allegedly snuck into a local restaurant, which closed last month, to retrieve his paintings from display. Ironically, he told police he did it because he feared the paintings would otherwise be stolen. [AP]  

– Yayoi Kusama's Flower to Stay in Australia: The Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane currently showing the polka-dots artist has secured the acquisition of a rare flower sculpture thanks to the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Diversity Foundation. [Art Daily]

– New Art Director for Huntington Library: Kevin Salatino, director of Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Maine and a former graphic arts curator at the Getty Research Institute, has been named the next director of art collections at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino. [LAT]

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