Australian artist Kathy Panton’s gouache (a paint similar to watercolor) prints are vibrant in color, mostly abstract in nature and a great way to add a vibrant pop into a dreary environment. The prints are shipped safely and are printed on a heavy matte paper.

I was going through my Google Reader yesterday when I saw a post at Art News Blog about a forthcoming installation at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. Artist Chu Yun plans to have women sleeping in beds around the gallery space.”That’s interesting,” I thought. Watching someone sleep is a fairly intimate thing since that person is fairly vulnerable. There’s also a culturally ingrained habit of being cautious around a sleeping person lest you wake them. The installation had the chance of being an interesting, living testament to these ideas.

Emily Friedman wrote an article for ABC News that was heavy on the fail. She interviewed an attorney who was planning on cutting back her earnings so that she would stay below $250,000 and be free of Obama’s marginal tax increase that kicks in at that level. Well, that plan would be just super if that were even close to how marginal tax increases work.

It was announced yesterday that an additional $30 billion in government aid would be made available to AIG after they posted a $61.7 billion loss, the largest quarterly loss in history. They are not being handed the money yet but the Fed put it on the table so that the ratings agencies- who were on the verge of downgrading AIG’s rating, making what they do have useless- would back off.