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Sticker, found on a newspaper dispenser on the Upper East Side, NYC. Photo by C-M.

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Chomp. Photo by Vidalia.

• The trippiest video I’ve seen in a very long time: The Pearce Sisters, a BAFTA-winning short. (Via NotCot.)
• Art Story Lead of the Day: “You could almost hear the New York art world breathe a sigh of relief when the Guggenheim Foundation announced today that Thomas Krens had resigned as its director.”
• The Krens-master Cycle, Day 2: MAN, Art Daily, Culture Grrl, Goings On.
• Robert Rauschenberg sues gallery over “art” pulled from his trash. (Via ArtForum.)
• Okay, so maybe that Amber Room isn’t gonna be so easy to find after all.
• Photo Essay: Frida Kahlo at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Plus: The latest Frida merch.
• And I Quote… Andrew Kuo on Charlie Rose, talking about art: “It hangs on a wall. It’s ridiculous if you think about it.”
• The show everybody loves to hate: A preview of the Whitney Biennial.
• ¡Artworld Smackdown! Tyler Green versus the Warhol Foundation.
• Tampa Museum receives $2.5 million gift. (Via ArtForum.)
• Art paralysis, a condition that no doubt will soon be remedied by the pharmaceutical industry. (Via AJ.)
• Photos of Windows.
• Graff of the Day: Zonenkinder Collective and Spectrum Crew in Poland.
• A Q&A with James Powderly of Graffiti Research Lab. (Via Ekosystem.)
• The Day in Sublime Ridiculosity: The Guardian channels All the President’s Men on some Banksy graffiti in a London parking lot. (There appears to be other graffiti in the lot, but the reporter completely ignores it. There’s some crack information gathering for you…)
• Bring on the boogar sugar: there’s cocaine at Colette.
• When you wake up this morning, please read my diary. Look through my things, and figure me out, by Gretchen Bennett.
• Bring back Chris March.
• Lori Earley painting stolen from the Jonathan Levine Gallery in NYC.
• In related news: Stolen 19^th century painting turns up at the Palm Beach Art Fair.
• Monaco House by McBride Charles Ryan in Melbourne.
• The recently renovated Rossio Railway Station in Lisbon. (Via Coudal.)
• I Park Like an Idiot. (Via NotCot.)
• The Global Seed Vault.
• Not safe for anywhere: New Abu Ghraib photos show Americans jailers displaying all the subtlety of Savak.
• Balloon tank.
• Your moment of rockin’ it to the bang bang boogie.

Sonumbra, an architectural textile that collects solar energy during the day and then gives it off at night. By Rachel Wingfield and Mathias Gmachl, for Loop, pH. (Photos by C-M.)

We only got to do the briefest jog-through of MoMA’s Design and the Elastic Mind exhibit due to an impending job-related meeting. But the little bit that we glimpsed was damn interesting. Some of the technology presented in the show has some interesting real-world applications (portable solar panels can provide electricity in the smallest of off-the-grid villages); some of it just makes for good show-and-tell (coffins with dildos). Our photos are sparse, but the exhibit was not. (We’ll be back.) In the meantime, you can check out the show’s website, where some programmer clearly went totally postal with Flash.

Money shots after the jump.

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Sculpture by John Powers at Virgil de Voldère Gallery in NYC, through March 29th. Photo by C-M.

• The Krens-master Cycle: Guggenheim director Thomas Krens steps down. Though he will remain at the foundation as a senior adviser, overseeing the new franchise in Abu Dhabi. Cue the Greek chorus: LAT, Bloomberg, Looking Around, Culture Grrl, AFC.
• ¡Artworld Smackdown! Tate vs. MoMA.
• No more blockbusters, says London’s National Gallery.
• The Sotheby’s report: People still buying stuff. Including a painting by Francis Bacon for almost $40 million.
• Stuff White People Like. (Via WBE.)
• Walker Art Center images now available on Facebook.
• Gap uses Warhol as window poster boy.
• Creative uses for junk mail. (Via ackackack.)
• Graff of the Day: Naut in L.A.
• The Blotter: Examining court cases on Nazi-era art that will determine what counts as a “forced” sale. (Via AJ.)
• An art show inspired by Google.
• In Western Mass.: Inciting arts coverage where there was none before.
• The history of choneys.
• Beck has a pretty badass website. (Via ackackack.)
• R.I.P. William Buckley and his addendum, proviso and quid pro quo. You can admire the conservative pundit at his finest in this video, where he threatens to give Gore Vidal a beat-down after Vidal calls him a “crypto-Nazi.” All in good fun, of course…
• Architects to power: like flies to shit. This awesome story includes a wonderful round-up of ethically-unsavory architectural projects around the world, as well as some deep thoughts by Philip Johnson: “I’m out to work for the Devil himself if he’s building.”
• Buildings as sculpture.
• An architectural gathering of libraries.
• Now we’ll need you to hump the shoe.
• Are you a taco, a burrito or a nacho? (Via LA Taco.)
• Your moment of Japanese television.

Double Grooves and Dirty Menudo with Julio César Morales and Eamon Ore-Girón. (Photos by San Suzie.)

Photos from a wrap party for the annual Starlight Ball at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, held at the Thirtynine Hotel in Honolulu’s Chinatown. Featuring a show by Los Jaichackers, a collaborative installation between Julio César Morales, from S.F., and Eamon Ore-Girón, of L.A. Also included: images of some truly resplendent cocktails.

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Sylvia Ji. Photo by Jason Woan.

• In L.A.: Sylvia Ji at Corey Helford.
• In Chicago: Andy and Ben Kehoe at Green Lantern.
• In NYC: Charles Demuth at the Whitney.
• In Santo Domingo, Colombia: Parque España, designed by Giancarlo Mazzanti.