A Walrus hire

In what looked like a kind of reverse brain drain, a respected art editor from The Brooklyn Rail, was nabbed by The Walrus. The Rail announced that Daniel Baird "whose sparkling insights and tireless commitment helped put the Rail on the map in the art world, has moved on to become the Arts and Literature editor of The Walrus, an excellent Canadian magazine of ideas based in Toronto." Actually, it's not such a leap for Baird, who is a director of Toronto's Red Head Gallery, at 401 Richmond Street and had been dividing his time between Toronto and New York.