EW.com turned us on to artist Lucy Knisley‘s ’80s-inspired comic strip version of Harry Potter, Hogwarts High, which seeks to answer the question: What would the film adaptations have looked like if J.K. Rowling had written her series 20 years earlier? Mark Paul Gosselaar, Anthony Michael Hall, and John Cusack are all there, as are Brooke Shields and Christopher Lloyd. David Bowie. Michael J. Fox. Falcor. Bad synth music. And of course, special guest star Will Smith. Peep it after the jump.

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As Andy Warhol famously declared, “Good business is the best art.” Taking Warhol and his maxim as its point of departure, Pop Life: Art in a Material World presents a selection of international artists who have followed in his footsteps. Organized by London’s Tate Modern and co-curated by Artforum editor-at-large Jack Bankowsky, François Pinault Collection curator Alison Gingeras, and Tate Modern curator Catherine Wood, Pop Life explores the relationship between art, commerce, and celebrity in the post-Pop era.

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1. Kanye West and Spike Jonze’s short film collab “We Were Once a Fairytale” — which opens with Kanye tipsy in a club, making inappropriate comments, before vomiting rose petals — was released over the weekend; the pair previously worked together on West’s “Flashing Lights” video. [via MTV]
2. The Flaming Lips will follow up Embryonic with a full-album cover of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. We approve. [via Pitchfork]
3. Thanks to 12,000 catalogs that have to be dumped now, the Brooke Shields naked photograph scandal could cost the Tate £320,000 in lost publishing revenue. [via The Telegraph]
4. This week, more than 60 TV shows will embed volunteerism into story lines or feature PSAs promoting the Entertainment Industry Foundation’s “I Participate” campaign. [via THR]
5. James Cameron reveals new details about Avatar. [via The New Yorker]

Bonus link: Mick Jagger to Andy Warhol

1. Richard Prince’s Spiritual America, a nude portrait of a then 10-year-old Brooke Shields, has been pulled from a show scheduled to open tomorrow at the Tate Modern after the museum had a visit from the obscene publications unit of the Metropolitan police. [via The Guardian]
2. Contrary to previous reports, Comcast is not in talks to buy NBC-Universal from General Electric. This is good news for Jack Donaghy. [via Philly.com]
3. Paramount has shifted the release date of Up in the Air, hopefully avoiding a George Clooney vs. George Clooney showdown at the box office. [via THR]
4. Flavor Flav — who dropped out in the 10th grade — is shopping around a new reality series that would send him back to high school to receive his diploma. [via THR]
5. Download “Scoff,” an unreleased Nirvana song from Sub Pop’s upcoming Bleach reissue. [via Pitchfork]