A Fucken Dozen, by Collin Bancroft. (Image courtesy of Bancroft.)

• Hilarious: Couch fort architectural critiques, in one and two parts. (Thanks, @comicstripicus.)
• A cautionary tale about Google’s power. (Art Fag City.)
• On Emily Jacir’s abruptly cancelled Venice Biennale installation: It appears that her use of Arabic script freaked out the city and the festival’s organizers. So hurtin’.
• Thoughtful piece by Christopher Hawthorne on what Eli Broad’s museum may or may not do for downtown L.A.: “Even as Grand Avenue has continued to collect individual buildings by leading architects, long-imagined improvements to its streetscape have largely failed to materialize.”
• A conversation between Jeffrey Deitch and Carlo McCormick at Bad at Sports. Love it when Deitch says that MFAs and MBAs are pretty much the same thing.
• W Magazine on Michael Crichton’s collection. See the slideshow.
• “Skateboarding on the Picasso is fun!”
• How artists pay taxes in Mexico.
• Arizona’s immigration law has spawned all manner of merch.
• This Tod Seelie photo essay seems to channel my recent cross-country drive. In other words, awesome.
• Chuck Close on Sesame Street.
• The Borges/Neruda smackdown. (The Rumpus.)
• Five species that cheated total extinction. For now. (Cool Green Science.)
• A museum dedicated to urban art, in Coruña, Spain.
• Today’s Street Art: A monster car from Derik in Ariege, France.
• Best coverage of Shepard Fairey’s show at Deitch: “I think there’s a bunch of people here that want you to sign their boobs.” (Art Fag City.)
• A Q&A with George Lois. Or back when magazines had balls.
• The Saudi pavilion at Shanghai Expo: I. Have. No. Words.
• Bill Murray, construction muse.
• A doily rug. Whoa.