Jon Rafman's  Kool-Aid Man in Second Life is a must watch. The video reconfigures the soft-drink mascot as the epic hero of an odyssey through virtual reality, including stops at an orgy, a Mesoamerican pyramid, and Tokyo.

Sassetta, The Meeting of Saints Anthony and Paul, c. 1440.  A small masterpiece of lyrical quattrocento Sienese painting, Sassetta's sequential narrative depicts Saint Anthony Abbot's Egyptian desert wandering and subsequent meeting of Saint Paul the Hermit outside his cave dwelling. The punctum? The branch tucked under the satyr's arm.

As if Dan Graham made Stonehenge.

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Museo Publications will be an exhibitor at the Book and Trade Fair for the College Art Association's 98th Annual Conference. Hyatt Regency Chicago, Feb. 10-13, 2010. Details TBA.

Gabriel Orozco's retrospective opens today at MoMA. The show was organized by Ann Temkin, Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture, with Paulina Pobocha, who interviewed Sigalit Landau for vol. 10.

Anthony McCall's show is opening right this minute at Sean Kelly Gallery. McCall's tenebristic projections speak obliquely to the essence of photography, being literally "drawings with light." Pictured here is his You and I, Horizontal (III) (2006).  

More from the Rubell Family Collection: Wade Guyton, 2007, Untitled, UltraChrome inkjet on linen

Details of: John Baldessari, "Art is Food for Thought and Food Costs Money" (1985) at the Rubell Family Collection; a surf n turf vanitas from the Tap Tap murals.

This Saturday, Helga Wretman will perform "Global Short Messaging" at the NADA Art Fair in Miami. Her  performances, typically collaborative, engage the mutual limitations of the body and technology, reconfiguring ancient topi such as "Death and the Maiden" and posession /bewitchment for our age. According to organizer Dan Bodan, this performance will mark a departure, instead "proposing a communication, channeled through a series of complex networks from a higher intelligence, which forces our hands to write out a multivocal message." (images of past projects: Helga Wretman with AIDS-3D, photo for Sang Bleu (top), Venice Biennale Internet Pavilion (bottom).