Round the web

Dumbing up? Dumbing down? Health & safety? Hugo Rifkind asks why museum attendance is growing.

Laura Cumming's post on the roll-out of Anthony d'Offays single artist rooms had me googling the phrase "curate's egg" and agreeing with a fellow twitterer that the slip to "curator's egg" is not inappropriate.

When I have a spare half hour, I'll be devoting it to Clay Shirky's 'Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable'

Finally, I find all the "the recession will be great for artists" commentary pretty distasteful, but this article in the SMH has a header so good I couldn't leave it off today's list.