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• T.G.I.F.: The Day in Shirtless Men. (Watch the videos, they’re frackin’ priceless. Via, appropriately enough, MAN.)
• That Old Syphilitic Rascal: Klimt at the Neue Galerie in NYC.
• Lawsuit of the week: California’s Norton Simon Museum gets to hang on to 500-year-old painting.
• Newflash: Artist goes YouTube. Francesco Vezzoli in Pushy Little Shit.
• When architects fuck with reporters.
• Sustainable Urban Architecture: Not all that sustainable, says BldgBlog.
• See the costs of participating in an art swap meet fair, including a $290 line item for massages. (Is that with or without the happy endings?)
• From the Department of Where-Have-You-Been? The Art Newspaper reports on this incredible phenomenon called “The Bilbao Effect.”
• Zhang Huan’s crumbling Buddha in Berlin.
• Reuse and recycling at the Garden Fresh Gallery in Chicago.
• Photo Essay: Edward Steichen on exhibit at the Jeu de Paume in Paris.
• Son of a Gun: Joey Bishop, the last surviving member of the Rat Pack, dead at 89.
• And because we seem to be on a Hollywood kick: R.I.P. Deborah Kerr, actress best known for playing tonsil hockey with Burt Lancaster, 1921-2007. Love your work.
• Not Surprising Legal News: NYC’s Salander O’Reilly is shut down.
• (Cute) Graff of the Day.
• I’m sure we’ll win the war now.
• The Corrections Desk: The Times mixes up B.B. King and Martin Luther King, Jr.
• For all those comic book geeks who can’t get laid: breast-shaped plushies.
• Just because.