Curatorial Olympics, Hogwarts Survives, and Mummies Take Manhattan

 
No, Anubis, the jackal-faced Egyptian god of the underworld, is not leading an marine invasion of Manhattan. Rather, that’s a 25-foot-high statue of him heralding the coming of the new King Tut exhibit at New York’s Metropolitan Museum. (Gothamist)
 
Some performance-art wiseacre has been staging his own “works” during Mariana Abramovic’s installation at her MoMA retrospective. If riding coattails was an art form, this guy would be Michelangelo. (Animal)
 
Actually, Hogwarts was not destroyed during the fiery final filming days of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”. That will wait until shooting is over. (/Film)
 
Competing in games such “speed hanging”, the art world’s least-appreciated underclass, the curatorial assistants, staged their own Art Handling Olympics in Manhattan last weekend. We hear that gallery girls may be getting their own World Cup soon. (NYT)