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Neckface at the Dactyl Foundation in New York. Photo by F. Trainer.

• Anthony Goicolea reportedly visited his vandalized piece at the Ad Nauseum Lyceum show in Brooklyn over the weekend. Highly-placed government sources state that his reaction was “mostly positive.” See a few pix here. (Goicolea, if you’re reading this: send me a critique of the piece and I will post it unedited. Include all the expletives you want.)
• It’s official: Art dealers buy museum shows for their artists.
• What’s your favorite color? ArtInfo interviews MoCA curator Paul Schimmel on what it’s like to work with Murakami.
• Overwrought art criticism quote of the day: “MoMA is our fountain of youth, our Garden of Eden, our Promised Land.”
• Too many dudes: an institution-by-institution analysis of how women fare in art museums. The bottom line: not well. The good news: they still let us in to do the cleaning.
• The Day in Starchitecture News: the Smithsonian American Art Museum gets a brand, spankin’ new courtyard roof from none other than the Dark Lord Foster. (Not that he’s truly dark. He is British. But “dark lord” sounds so much better than “pasty lord.”)
• Like that colonial bedroom set you spied while inspecting the Dark Lord’s roof? Now you can buy it.
• In Washington: Edo masters at the Sackler.
• And while you’re in our nation’s capital, a handy guide to the city’s cruisiest bathrooms.
• In NYC: Liz Craft at Marianne Boesky.
• In Gijón, Spain: Emergentes, 10 Projects by Latin American artists, at LABoral.
• Whoa. Those Latinos sure can paint. Pinta, the first fair devoted to Latin American art in New York City, makes its debut.
• Totally tubular: Surfer dude comes up with a theory of everything.
• The Lawrimore Project: Nurturing contemporary art in Seattle.
• News Flash: Julian Schnabel wants to be known as a painter, not a director. And I’m not a blogger. I’m an accomplished auteur.
• In related news: writers who paint. But probably shouldn’t.
• Secondary News Flash: Fox News Channel likes titty.
• Visual Nuggets: Albert Seveso.
• The Week in Censorships News: Don’t let kids read about anything because, well, they might have thoughts and do something. (Via Return of the Reluctant.)
• The Miami Basel clusterfuck: growing impossibly bigger by the second.
• Because Brangelina have one: The continuing rush on Banksy.
• Your moment of magical realism: singing hamburger edition.