Mare de Deu de la Llet, 1520 at the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya in Barcelona. (Photo by C-M.)

• The best art website ever. More here.
• What the city of Denver has in the art hopper for the Democratic Convention.
• David Byrne’s New York City bicycle racks.
• Art Review of the Day: The Times of London on Tracey Emin. “What gives her work its consequence is what she unwittingly reveals of the world we inhabit. There, celebrity is more important than real achievement, self-revelation more gripping than anything created by talent and a considerable imagination. For the artist herself, the chief purpose of art is as a means of achieving fame. God help us.”
• Audio Slide Show: The Provincetown of Edward Hopper.
• ¡Culture Smackdown! Art to Go vs. Amy Tan on the subject of writerly freedoms in China.
• The Season in Striking a Pose, Leaning Tower of Pisa Edition. (Via The Moment.)
• New company to assume production of some Polaroid materials. Not that it will do most people any good, since they’ll only be producing the materials for one of their humongo-format cameras.
• How English is evolving into a language we may not understand.
• A Q&A with Buff Monster. Interesting fact: he went to USC business school.
• Graff of the Day: Jaye, Kashink and Limit in France. More from Kashink here.
• For the dedicated graffheads: Video of Barry McGee’s presentation at Carnegie International. He does a slide show of his photos of S.F. graffiti and talks, off the cuff (and quite hilariously), about them. The high art audience seems to have no idea what’s going on.
• The Graffiti Coloring Book. (Via Ekosystem.)
• The Homer Simpson Euro.
• Me, me me…on the subject of renting mid-century vacation homes in Palm Springs. Photo essay here.
• A directory of motel postcards from the ‘50s and ‘60s. (Courtesy of Mlle. Connasse, who is currently holed up at the University Motel in Ann Arbor, sipping Vodka Stingers in the company of a corn-fed young college student named Bif.)
• Tattoos of classic chairs. (Via NotCot.)
• The psychological impact of urban infrastructure.
• A fascinating story in the L.A. Times on how smog affects architecture.
• Little boxes…that look damn awesome: Carabanchel Housing by dosmasuno architects in Madrid.
• Your moment of how to draw Beijing’s Bird’s Nest Stadium.