Mulberry Tree, 1889, by Vincent Van Gogh, at the Norton Simon in Pasadena. (Photo by C-M.)

• The McRib locator. Handy. (Coudal.)
• Art Fag City evaluates the worst of the web in 2008. It’s a juicy one, folks. Do not miss.
• Me, this morning.
• You’ve got through the weekend to sign up for the latest C-Mon Giveaway Extravaganza.
• Plus: More me…blogging on Art21 about the photographs of an Army serviceman in Iraq. Check it out.
• Beethoven, as interpreted by Charlie Brown. (Gracias, Big Papi G.)
• Love the caftan: A couple of pix from the Hirshhorn Museum’s opening, in 1974.
• R.I.P Andrew Wyeth.
• Nobody’s home.
• Vladimir Putin, (bad) painter. (Arts Journal.)
• Create your own Shepard Fairey-style Obamicon. (Hrag Vartanian.)
• Related: Shepard Fairey interviewed by Stephen Colbert, who confesses his admiration of the “Obey” posters because, without them, he’d “forget to obey.” (Fairey barely gets a word in edgewise.) Plus: The Philadelphia Inquirer tracks down the pic used as the basis for the famous poster.
• “7 Things I Learned From Working on a Pot Farm.” Plus: CNBC.com has a breathtaking gallery of medicinal weed. (World’s Best Ever; ackackack.)
• Balloon animals humping. Soooo Jeff Koons. (Kottke.)
• Today’s Graff: Dack and Fabula in Moscow.
• A trailer for a documentary about pixaçao, the São Paulo graffiti. (Só português.) (Ekosystem.)
• A building in Germany that looks kinda Star Trek.
• Archinect took the pulse of the architecture industry and it’s faint: “Unless one is happy and married to money this is going to be painful,” said one respondent to the survey. (architecture.mnp.)
• R.I.P. Jan Kaplický. A few more images of his crazy buildings here and here.
• Grist evaluates Obama’s urban policy picks. The reviews are mixed. (The Skyline.)
• Design Observer lists 10 objects in need of a redesign.
• Your moment of Dacron Polyester.