Joan Jett © Dusan Reljin/Courtesy www.ammobooks.com

• Joan Jett by Todd Oldham [Glorious Noise]
• Bravo's new art show won't embarrass the art world [Art Fag City]
• The Met to exhibit a Picasso he disowned [Artforum.com]
• Let the Malcolm McLaren mourning begin [Flavorwire]
• Hole drops their first single since 1998 [Courtney-Love.org]

Lars von Trier's Antichrist

• God Doesn't Like Ugly  [Openings]
• Lars von Trier's Antichrist screens at NY Film Festival [L Magazine]
• Mayor for Life wants to help NY artists through the recession [Art Review]
• $27 million worth of paintings stolen in CA [Art Observed]
  

Cyrus R. K. Patell and Bryan Waterman announced the lineup for their conference Lost New York, 1609-2009, being held at NYU October 2nd and 3rd, 2009.

Lost New York marks the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's voyage for the Dutch and the 200th anniversary of Washington Irving's legendary reimagining of this New World encounter in his Knickerbocker's History of New York.

A wide array of conference participants, including neighborhood bloggers Bowery Boogie, Ephemeral New York, Flaming Pablum, and Lost City, will explore the dynamics of creativity and destruction, nostalgia and invention, that have for centuries marked efforts to "Do New York," as Henry James advised Edith Wharton. Lectures and panels will address the relationships between literary imagination and the archives, between migrations and displacements, between loss and remembrance, and between preservation and development in the long and storied history of one of the world's greatest cities.

A complete schedule can be found on their website, A History of New York.

Courtney Love at Narciso Rodriguez on Tuesday night. Getty Images

In her trademark gatling-gun styled writing, Courtney Love took to her Twitter account to announced she was attacked on Greene Street Wednesday night. After leaving a party at the Standard Hotel's Boom Boom Room, Love was accosted by a man on Greene Street who snatched her purse, dumped it on the sidewalk, and stomped on the contents. He then grabbed Love by the throat, lifted her off the ground, and said, "Courtney, you better f*cking keep your f*cking mouth shut." He tossed her on the sidewalk, kicking her and screaming, "48 f*cking hours you f*cking whore, no more from you shut your f*cking face from now on," she wrote on Twitter.

There are several theories floating around as to why Love was attacked. Tuesday night she attended a Narciso Rodriguez fashion show at which she allegedly annoyed everyone sitting around her with her running commentary and inability to sit still. Courtney has also been Tweeting non-stop for months about identity thieves using her late husband's social security number to finance and re-finance non-existent property all over the country. Love has named ex-boyfriend Jim Barber and his account Lisa Ferguson among other conspirators.

Courtney Love Attacked in New York [Glorious Noise]

Todd Schorr

• Artist park - Lent Space - opens at Varick and Canal Streets [L Magazine]
• Tania Bruguera offers her audience some blow, cops less than thrilled [Artnet]
• Logan Hicks' new time-lapse video from Nuart'09 [Wooster Collective]
• Kehinde Wiley's hip-hop portraits at Deitch Projects [Village Voice]
• Juxtapoz 15th Anniversary Art Auction featuring Todd Schorr [Juxtapoz]
  

"Blood Head" - Marc Quinn

• 'Re-Exploding Plastic Inevitable'  - Music from 'The Factory' days
• Quinn's $500,000 frozen blood head self-portrait goes on show [Bloomberg]
• NEA reassigns former communications director [ArtReview]
• Philippe Starck begins reality television series [Artforum]
  
• Hirst pencils worth more when left unsharpened [Art Fag City]

Princess Hijab

• New work by Princess Hijab [Wooster Collective]
• Nick Cave on The Death of Bunny Munro tonight @ Upstairs at the Square
• Punk Rock icon and author, Jim Carroll dies at 60 [NME]
• Kanye West makes an ass of himself, again, at VMA's [NY Post]
• Hirst and Mandelson: unlikely allies? [Art Review]
• Memories of daily life in empty storefronts [EV Grieve]
  

"Jonas (Glow Falls)" - Ryan McGinley

• Ryan McGinley's new exhibit of cave photographs opens in London [Vice]
• Yoko Ono's latest called "album of her career" [The Stool Pigeon]
• Fox News bullies NEA into reassigning its communications director [FOX]
• At Last, Artists Harness the Internet [NYT]
• Port Authority seeking proposals for temporary mural at WTC site [NYCDOT]
  

Photographers interested in crazy amounts of exposure need to enter Jen Bekman Projects' international photo competition, Hey, Hot Shot! Hey, Hot Shot! offers the unique opportunity to photographers at all stages of their careers to be evaluated by industry pros as well as the opportunity for unprecedented exposure including the popular Hey, Hot Shot! blog.

All artists are given the chance to have their work viewed by a panel that includes Jen Bekman, photography book evangelist and publisher Darius Himes, Aperture Foundation publisher Lesley A. Martin, former Creative Director of Colors magazine and photographer Stefan Ruiz, and Chronicle Books chairman and CEO Nion McEvoy.

Five winners will receive a $500.00 honorarium and will be included in a two week exhibit at New York's Jen Bekman Gallery as well as inclusion in the online endeavor 20x 200.  In addition, two winners will be selected at the end of the year for two week solo shows at the gallery in 2010.

The entry deadline is Friday October 23 at 8:00PM.  Artists are asked to submit three photographs from a body of work along with a S60.00 handling fee. Full details are available on their website.

"Widespread 2" - Xu Zhen

• Franklin Evans - 2008/2009 < 2009/2010 [Sue Scott Gallery]
• Mark Bradford / Kara Walker [Sikkema Jenkins & Co.]
• Alessandro Pessoli [Anton Kern Gallery]
• Xu Zhen - Lonely Miracle: Middle East Contemporary Art [James Cohen Gallery]