Move over Robin… The new issue of Peter David's X-Factor might feature the first ever guy on guy kiss in a superhero comic.

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Morrison Hotel, the chain of rock photography galleries, is closing its largest and most visible space, at 313 Bowery, after only a year.

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The famous image of Albert Einstein sticking out his tongue has sold for $74,324 to David Waxman, a collector who lives in Great Neck, New York.

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You may remember Ron English's work from the Morgan Spurlock documentary Super Size Me, but he also received a ton of attention for his recent Abraham Lincoln/Obama mashup, Abraham Obama. Now he's gonna get even more mentions due to his Marilyn Mickies. Oh so titillating.

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Yes, it's true, Captain America will soon be making a triumphant return.

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Rich kids everywhere are whining as their parents pull their credit cards out of their sweaty hands and ask them to live with a little less.

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As if regular artists weren't weird enough! Filmmaker Tim Burton’s signature artwork is coming to the Museum of Modern Art this year.

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Normally it's very late at night when we think about what will happen after we die. We're also usually in the drink. Not so for dance legend Merce Cunningham. As our own Susan Reiter points out at Culture Monster, "Today at his troupe's studio in New York, the Cunningham Dance Foundation announced its Living Legacy Plan, which confronts the prospect of a future without its founder. The plan, developed by Cunningham and the foundation’s board, addresses key artistic, preservation and administrative issues—including a world tour, the troupe’s eventual dissolution and digital preservation of choreography."

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Google & The Guggenheim invite the public to participate in their Design It: Shelter Competition. The competition opens today (inspiration: Frank Lloyd Wright’s birthday) and closes August 23 (the Guggenheim’s 50th anniversary). The task? Design a virtual 100-square-foot shelter using Google Earth and a 3-D modeling software for a location of your choice. There are two chances to win: the public votes on who gets the People’s Prize and a jury of experts decide who gets the Juried Prize.

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The deadline to sign up for Issue Project Room’s Sound Walk-a-Thon on Sunday has been extended to tomorrow, June 6. On the tour, artists will be taking 10-20 people at a time on a sonic discovery walk around certain neighborhoods of New York City. According to the IPR website, “Walks range from meditative deep listening, to sing-a-longs, to noise-making walks incorporating instruments, iPods, boomboxes, cell phones, or silence in order to amplify the nuances of our ever-changing soundscape."

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