Apartment Therapy shares some of Prof. Eshel Ben-Jacob’s mesmerizing Gardens-in-a-Petri.

Words make rooms (via SpeakUp).

A simple list by the Swiss art duo Fischli & Weiss entitled “How to Work Better” from 1991: “1) Do one thing at a time, 2) Know the problem, 3) Learn to listen, 4) Learn to ask questions, 5) Distinguish sense from nonsense, 6) Accept change as inevitable, 7) Admit mistakes, 8) Say it simple, 9) Be calm, 10) Smile.” Ryan Gander has written a nice short essay about this list for the magazine Tate ETC.

UbuWeb is billing itself as “The YouTube of the Avant-Garde,” having converted all of its rare and out-of-print film and video holdings to on-demand streaming formats: “We offer over 300 films & videos from artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Vito Acconci, Pipilotti Rist, Jean Genet, The Cinema of Transgression, Richard Foreman, Terayama Shuji, Paul McCarthy Jack Smith, Carolee Schneeman, John Lennon and hundreds more—of course all free of charge.” You could start with some Peter Greenaway films of “Four American Composers,” or—better yet—with Robert Smithson’s excellent Hotel Palenque.

The very graphic artwork of Peter Wagner. The Lever Labyrinth project is a particular favorite of mine.

“There is an exercise I had students do. There would be two tables in a room, and we would videotape what went on. One table would be piled with junk, and the other table would be vacant. The instructions to the students were to move the junk to the table and organize it, and we would observe their ordering system. There are so many ways to organize things, but it’s so basic to art—how do you put a structure on seemingly random information? […] Even no order is an order.” John Baldessari curates the first “Ways of Seeing” show at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Listen to Baldessari’s interview with assistant curator Kristen Hileman.

Typological, combinatory, open-source, dazzling. Allan McCollum does it again by creating a system that allows everyone on earth to have their own individual shape. The first 214,000,000 of these shapes have been presented at Friedrich Petzel Gallery. Read more about the project here. See all the pieces and some installation views.

“To make his art—big, lacy, seemingly innocent ornamental diagrams that resemble flow charts, star maps, blueprints or subway plans—he lived, breathed and slept conspiracy.” The Village Voice’s Jerry Saltz on the extraordinary drawings of the late Mark Lombardi.

Jochem Hendricks’ “Tax” subtlely hints at the transformative power of art, as the artist spun his remaining taxable income into gold (via VVork).

A project after my own heart: a significant portion of artist Martha Rosler’s library is now visible online at e-flux.com. “This project grew in part out of Martha Rosler’s space problem: she simply had too many books crowding her home and studio. They covered the shelves, piled on the floors, and cascaded down the stairs. We offered her a solution.” Note the slick use of Caslon Graphique on the spine of Victor Navasky’s Naming Names.