1. While you were sleeping, MGMT dropped their trippy new video for “Flash Delirium,” complete with an Austin Powers puppet. [via TwentyFourBit]
2. When he returns to New York for his upcoming show at Deitch Projects, a reformed Shepard Fairey plans to ask before he pastes. [via ArtsBeat]
3. Meanwhile, a Dennis Hopper survey is on the short list of inaugural shows to be presented under new director Jeffrey Deitch at LA’s MOCA. [via Lindsay Pollock]
4. FOX is launching a new reality dating show, My Parents Are Gonna Love You, that sounds something like The Bachelor meets Punk’d — but the joke is on the poor parents. [via THR]
5. June Havoc, Gypsy Rose Lee‘s sister and the real life inspiration for Gypsy the musical’s “Baby June” character, has died at 97. [via WaPo]

Bonus link: Atwood in the Twittersphere

A cat playing the piano is funny, but a sequence of cats playing an atonal composition by Arnold Schoenberg is both brilliant and absurd. One of the latest works from digital artist Cory Arcangel, Drei Klavierstucke, Op.11 is a compilation of fragments from found YouTube videos that captures a variety of cats walking on piano keys, each producing a note. Edited together, they recreate a dynamic piece of modernist music.

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Robert Redford, Ed Ruscha, and Salman Rushdie were among the honorees at last week’s 2009 National Arts Awards, presented by Americans for the Arts — the same organization that benefits from the sales of Shepard Fairey and Jennifer Gross’ new publication, Art for Obama.

The award’s ceremony, which was held at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York, was attended by an all-star group of artists, art patrons, politicians, museum directors, gallerists, and celebrities. Among the glamorous crowd were Chuck Close, Jeff Koons, Shirin Neshat, Eli Broad, Vera Wang, Caroline Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, Adam Weinberg, Thelma Golden, Lisa Phillips, Larry Gagosian, Tony Shafrazi, Dennis Hopper, and Kerry Washington. Buoyed by an Obama White House, award presenters and recipients relished the social, economic, and diplomatic roles the arts can now play.

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