Climate Change Expedition, 2009, by Isaac Cordal. Part of the series Cement Eclipses. (Image courtesy of Cordal.)

• Punk tea cups. Seriously. (Thank you, Alex.)
• Ta-Nehisi Coates, on the bigoted legacy of The New Republic’s Martin Peretz.
• Is Arianna Huffington a parasite? (My two cents are in the comments below the story.)
• On writing that becomes what it is intended to critique, from the ‘80s to the present. (@giovannigf.)
• The difficulty of understanding hipsters.
• You’ve sold the work. Now try getting paid.
• The art world universe of Terence Koh.
• From the Department of Look-What-I-Found-in-Storage: The Prado uncovers a Breugel the Elder after giving it a cleaning. How comes this never happens to me?
• The New York Times highlights a few videos from the Guggenheim’s YouTube Play project. And all I can say is that they are…crazy bad. I haven’t seen all of them, so I probably shouldn’t be lobbing opinions, but still…
• On being a hyphenate (and kissing Sean Penn): John Perrault on James Franco.
• Relational dogsthetics, courtesy of Martin Creed. (FYI: The story is good; photo is better. Click through.)
• Diaphanous membranes.
• Why I love reading about art conservation: You learn about stuff like the Pondovac 4 Pond Vacuum.
• Thing That Are Freaky: A map of all the oil rigs on the Gulf Coast. (Cool Green Morning.)
• The Biggest Marker in the Universe. (The Rumpus.)
• Today’s Street Intervention, Toothpaste Edition: Goro in Poland.
• The difference between art and street art, explained. Now it all makes sense.
• Longer than 16 miles of string: 30 Miles of Yarn.
• How segregated is your city?
• An idealistic city that is also walled off from the rest of the world. Interesting story by Nicolai Ourossoff on a so-called “zero-carbon” Abu Dhabi development that is all suburban gated community – a style of urban development that he likens to “a cancer.” In relation to this, Alexandra Lang asks a smart question (not answered in the piece): How much carbon does it take to build a carbon-free city?
• The Nixon Family vacation album.