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Martin Puryear at MoMA. Through January 14th, 2008.

• The Basel Frazzle: Get Your Maps… Get Set… Go!
• When Art Fairs Imitate Thanksgiving Day sales: I can’t wait for some TV news station to do one of those Black Friday-style segments about Basel that shows collectors clawing at the doors of the Convention Center at 5am as if it were a Wal-Mart.
• For everyone that has to fly from L.A. to Miami next week: A handy book that tells you what you’re flying over.
• There will be an unveiling of Herzog & De Meuron’s Miami Art Museum design sometime during Art Basel. I’m sure this will be a joyous, spontaneous event. (Via Critical Miami.)
• Doris Salcedo’s crack at the Tate continues to claim victims. (Via Looking Around.)
• Jenny Holzer says her writings come from her “dark past.”
• Museum honcho musical chairs.
• Even Geekier Than Regular Architecture: Architecture in Second Life.
• David Byrne on the new NY Times building: “I can’t help but look at this new skyscraper and think, ‘They sure are optimistic ’bout print journalism.’“
• Corporate co-opting of punk continues.
• Don’t worry. This isn’t real. At least not yet.
• So Busted: The Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
• Profile of Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha.
• Graff of the Day: Monk and Robotinc2105 in Milan. (More photos here.)
• Architecture Criticism Quote of the Day: “Far too often these days, such technical wizardry seeks only to produce ‘wow’ buildings, as if architecture’s job was to make us yelp.”
• See your sperm.
• The art industry needs a little free love on the free love freeway.
• You lookin’ at me? Robert De Niro says that the embattled (and defunct) Salander O’Reilly misappropriated works that belonged to him. (Via Culture Grrl.)
• In Quito: Casa Pentimento, a pre-fab house in Tumbaco. (Via Moco Loco.)
• In Berlin: David O’Reilly at the Pictoplasm Animation Festival.
• In Tokyo: The AirSpace Building, as remixed by Beige Architecture.
• In Sarasota: Cuban Avant-Garde at the Ringling Museum.
• In NYC: WK Interact at Espeis Archetype Gallery and Do Ho Suh at Lehmann Maupin.
• In London: The Age of Enchantment at the Dulwich Picture Gallery.
• Your moment of divine revelation: ‘70s game show edition.