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Plasmaslug in Str8 from Brooklyn at the Tiny Cup Cafe in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, through Feb. 10. Photo by Jake Dobkin.

• For any gallery owner who wants to bellyache about life being so hard in NYC: Try Baghdad.
• Art School Quote of the Day: “I was in art school trying to figure out what that was about. I didn’t know what that was about. I still don’t know what it’s about. But I was trying to figure out how these people can magically make something and then earn [a living]. It seemed like more of the art than the actual art.” Barry McGee, aka Twist, in Swindle. (Via Ekosystem.)
• Looking Around has a really interesting series of posts—in one, two, three parts—on the Murakami show at L.A.’s MoCA.
• ¡¡Artworld Smackdown!! C.A.R.E. gives the Boston Foundation the finger. See related news here.
• The Guardian to people that hype British contemporary art: “I knew the Renaissance. The Renaissance was a friend of mine. And you’re no Renaissance.”
• In related news: Jake and Dinos Chapman deface art and call it art. How original.
• Photo Essay: Secret spots by photographer Taryn Simon.
• Philippe de Montebello blah blah blah. In related news: blah and blah.
• A good day at LACMA: The museum unveils the Lazarof collection. In related news, an L.A. museum preview.
• 8 Schieles=1 Klimt.
• Oh, those lucky hedge fund managers: Another NY SoHo loft delivers an art surprise: A mural by Keith Haring.
• Interesting post: Winkleman on Sooreh Herah, the ex-pat Iranian photographer now in hiding.
• The blood puddle pillow. (Via WMNA.)
• Video: Louise Bourgeois looks like the kind of bad-ass bitch I’d want to hang out with. (Via Art21.)
• The Day in High-Brow Magazine Contests: There’s a Eustace Tilley drawing contest over at the New Yorker. (Via Coudal.)
• In L.A.: The L.A. Weekly Biennial at Bergamot Station. (Via MAN.)
• In NYC: We Are Friends in Williamsburg, this week.
• In Miami: Promises of Paradise: Staging Mid-Century Miami at the Bass Museum.
• In Detroit: Eero Saarinen at the Cranbrook Art Museum. (Via MAN.)
• In Paris: Bêtes et hommes at La Villette.
• Your moment of buffalo.