1. A giant tiled wall by the Conceptual artist Sol LeWitt was revealed at the 59th Street – Columbus Circle subway station.

2. Performa 09, the third edition of the performance art biennial, will take place through the first three weeks of November.

3. On his blog Dot Earth, Andrew C. Revkin recently proposed a contest “to see who can come up with fresh, captivating, accurate ways” to use different art forms to describe climate trends.

4. Takashi Murakami states that his “inspiration is shrinking.”

5. Tokyo’s pioneer photography gallery, Zeit-Foto Salon, has high turnout and interest.