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Reporting live, from Lincoln Heights.

• ArtNet’s Charlie Finch says that art bloggers are “conformist, reactionary, redundant and self-referential…the Sam Brownbacks of the art world.” I think of myself more as the Dennis Kucinich of the art world. Seriously nerdy, mildly entertaining, with no shot in hell of ever attaining any kind of real influence.
• © Murakami: Supertouch and Eric Nakamura blog the museum and the parties, respectively. The L.A. Times deconstructs Kanye and reviews the (art) show, while the L.A. Weekly profiles the ah-tist. (My own Murakami post seems to have evaporated into the ether. Sorry for the technological turbulence, folks. I’m not very handy with these new-fangled computer thingies. Whew. Found it.)
• Get it Louder: Work by Japanese emerging artists. Check out the Akino Kodoh video.
• And because we seem to be on a Japan kick: Japanese manhole covers.
• The wonderful world of fine art authentication, according to the Daily Show. (And Culture Grrl does NOT find it funny.)
• More signs of the coming apocalypse: Andy Warhol cologne.
• Graff of the Day.
• The Tate and the National Gallery get a buttload of art, including pieces by Cezanne and Monet. See a slideshow of some of the works here.
• Your art in lights.
• Art vandalism is so two weeks ago. Now it’s all about art theft.
• In New York: Neckface at the Dactlye Foundation and Martin Puryear at MoMA. (For a serious mind-fuck, see both shows on the same day.)
• In Seattle: Juan Alonso at Francine Seders Gallery.
• In Paris: Peinture Fraîche at the Centre Pompidou.
• In S.F.: Jeff Wall at SF MoMA.
• In Baltimore: Outsider artists at the Visionary Art Museum.
• Bernard Tschumi’s new Acropolis Museum. (Way better than the blue hand fisting lower Manhattan.)
• Chicks with knives: A profile of Naomi Fisher.
• Don’t let the door hit you on the way out: Miami Carnival Center CEO gets the boot.
• The latest art-in-the-trash find: Martín Ramírez.
• The day in recipes: pot brownies. (Via Eclectic Cow.)
• Just what I needed: a living dead sharpener.
• High-res Last Supper now available for scrutiny by Dan Brown fans.
• Bank$y $lept here.
• El Fin: Super special knife-licking, towel-snapping edition.

Photo by ideacat

“I think this whole thing is just one big penis.”

“It’s an artwork, not a Rolls Royce.”

MoCA employee to friend: “Have you seen the boutique? It’s soooo hot.”

“I like this one, it’s like the same thing. But different.”

Most repeated expression of the night: “How long is the line?’

All the dazed people in this foto are staring at Murakami, who is standing just below the bottom edge of this frame.

My overview after the jump.

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Opening: October 27th, 2007

8-11 p.m.

The Garage Gallery

291 8th Street, btw 5th & 6th Aves.

Brooklyn

See a preview here.

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