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Photo of a Spencer Tunick installation by An Pu Ruo

• Big Whoop of the Week: Photographer Spencer Tunick is seeking 800 naked Miamians for his latest photographic extravaganza. I challenge him to find 800 Miamians who actually want to keep their clothes on.
• MoMA is hiring.
• The worst buildings in NYC.
• How to tell if your neighborhood is done: it gets mentioned on Gossip Girls.
• Art Review of the Week: “This phenom has an eye for opulence, pretense, overkill, and bad taste.”
• Bill O’Reilly says he’s being smeared. It’s about time.
• Break out the cigarettes and temporary bulimia. Fashion photography is coming to Art Basel.
• Martha Stewart has no idea what bong water is. (Via Return of the Reluctant.)
• Damien Hirst isn’t the only guy making big-ass shiny skulls.
• It’s all about conceptual: Richard Prince collects revamped muscle cars—and then displays them as his art. By this logic, any pimply teenager with a souped-up Camaro should now be referred to as a “sculptor.”
• Irritating Word Pairing of the Day: “Wal-Mart” and “Museum” in the same headline.
• Visual Goodness: Sculptures from Spanish street artists Nuria and El Tono at the Matadero in Madrid. (Via Ekosystem.)
• Forget Bilbao. This season is all about Tehran. (Via Modern Art Notes.)
• Because Everyone Else is Doing It: I’ll also link to the breathless profile of Peter Schjeldahl in the Voice. (And is it me, or does he look a bit like Trotsky in the photo?)
• Decorative items that send a message.
• Artworld Smackdown: Italy 40, Getty 0.
• Why, god, why?
• Sneaky sex that’s strangely unsexy. The NYT investigates.
• Bed-time reading for hypochondriacs.
• Jane Jacobs, the woman who stood up to Robert Moses, inspires an intellectual cottage industry.
• The MacArthur Genius Grants have been announced. Sadly, I was overlooked. Again.
• I heart JC Penney’s circa 1975.
• MassMoCA continues to have its ass handed to it on a platter.
• This looks worth checking out if you’re in Berlin.
• Abbie Hoffman would sure look nice over the couch.
• Stop the Presses: There’s a show about celebrity photography in L.A.
• Your moment of zen. (Click on slideshow.)