Instead, the New Museum exhibits contemporary artwork from all around the world. On Saturday, the opening exhibits include a performance piece by New York artist Sharon Hayes about communication, as well as an expansive thirty artist exhibit called Unmonumental: The Object in the 21^st Century, which examines new methods of sculpture and creation. The Seoul collective Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries has also created Black on White, Gray Ascending, a complex, multi-faceted film noir narrative combining text, animation, and music.

In celebration of its opening, the New Museum will be open for 30 free hours starting at noon, meaning that you can walk in at 11:30 p.m from a bar—the New Museum may seriously regret this.

Tickets can be found on the New Museum website, but they are close to being (if not already) sold out. In any case, you should head downtown Saturday and try to get your hands on unused or extra tickets, or pry them from someone's unwitting, skinny little fist. Nighttime may be the best time to go; even if you can't get a ticket you'll be within walking distance to bars in the area like Max Fish or Good World, which will probably be packed with New Museum refugees.

- James DeWille

1020 not cutting it on Friday nights anymore? Bwog nightlife correspondent James DeWille is your tour guide to a better weekend. Here, he provides a user-friendly guide to Every 2nd Friday in Williamsburg.

Friday night is starting early this weekend, so prepare to don your dumpiest and head on over to the Bedford L stop for Williamsburg's Every 2^nd Friday. Every gallery in the 'hood will be open until at least 9pm (most later) for a smattering of paintings, Pabst, and plaid. Expect a lot of debauchery and stumbling from gallery to gallery, as most are within walking distance of each other and beer and wine will run freely till they run...empty (which reminds me, don't be cool and show up late. At least for tonight you'll be in the wrong neighborhood for that kind of attitude; drink up and early). Keep the night open and organic: follow invitations (except to Bushwick) and interesting people/sounds to hunt out after parties, impromptu band performances, and chilly but pretty rooftops.

For those who still need a guide map, here's a round up a few shows definitely worth hitting up:

Over the last week we asked you, our readership, to submit your entries to our first Photoshop competition featuring your favorite/least favorite professors in remodeled garb. Anyway, we hated to have to choose a winner, so instead we decided to play the proud parent and post all the lovely artwork we received on what we'd like to think of as the Bwog Refrigerator of Achievement (metaphorical magnets included). To the right: an anonymous entry we've dubbed as "AhmadineBo" -- and let Bwog tell you, judging from the entries, President Bollinger is quite a popular man!

More entries below (in no particular order) after the jump.

Jerone Hsu, CC '07, former Editor-in-Chief of Tablet, founder of Eclectica Esoterica (whose latest, beautifully designed issue includes essays about Times New Roman and psychedelic drug use), and B&W graphics editor of yore is still gracing campus with his artistic talent. Now, though, it's for hire, albeit for a good cause: he's selling his mural-painting services to raise startup capital for a non-profit group that will help arts organizations in the area find funding. Yes, your McBain double could look like an updated Sistine Chapel--e-mail primeinteriormurals@gmail.com for a consultation.

Meanwhile, other former editors-in-chief are doing cool shit too: Current founder Bari Weiss just finished a fellowship at the Wall Street Journal and is now off for another in Israel. Former Spectator head Megan Greenwell is nearing the end of a tour in Iraq for the Washington Post. Birch founder and last year's CPR editor Paul Sonne will begin his Marshall-funded stint at Oxford this fall, and B&W editor emeritus Avi Zenilman is scribing for the Politico, a new-ish journalistic venture in D.C.

See what a bustling campus publications scene launches! Or maybe it's just them.

UPDATE, Saturday, 11:50 PM: Last year's editor-in-chief of the Columbia Review, Katarzyna Kozanecka (now Nikhamina), married her high school sweetheart in June and is now working for the Manhattan District Attorney's office.

- LBD

The system's far more intriguing history is written on its walls, says Bwogger Armin Rosen. Tunnel graffiti is a running history of everyone who found their explorations momentous enough to permanently commemorate....

But there's nothing boastful or egotistical about the hastily-scrawled notes found on practically every flat and indeed most of the cylindrical surfaces in the tunnel system, and if the point of the near-ubiquitous Benoit tag is to say "I was here," then the "I" is conspicuously absent--to this day the tunnels' most notorious explorer is without face and name.

The artist of the less notorious but just as abundant "mouse" graffito leaves tantalizing clues as to his identity: "still here in '06, if anybody cares," reads one note adjacent to the 119th street parking garage. But the mouse artist remains anonymous as well. This penchant for anonymity is hardly surprising in an environment as alienating as the tunnel system. Subterranean in both the literal and figurative sense, the tunnels are the domain of a subversive and adventurous few--It takes a particular kind of person to want to go down here, and an even more particular kind of person to actually go down here. Tunneling therefore creates a sense of kinship with the past; an ironic sense of connection within a world that doesn't seem to be connected to anything. Among such kindred spirits, identity is nothing more than an afterthought; an annoying bit of ephemera that has to be discarded in the interest of leaving something truly enduring. Benoit will endure. John Galt, who apparently misses the point of even tunneling in the first place, probably won't.

More photos and commentary after the jump!

Bwogger Anna Corke reports from work-study in the Art History department...

There is a stack of give-away fine art posters on a table by the girl's bathroom on the 8th floor of Schermerhorn. Picasso, Renoir, Matisse, others. Some are ripped, but would still make good editions to boring dorm rooms.

And Izumi Devalier chimes in from SIPA...

In front of the 7th floor IAB elevators you can find a huge box full of free poli sci books discarded by some professor who, from a cursory content analysis, looks like he specializes in post-colonial Algerian agro-economic policy with a modest side of Korean security issues.