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Retna in Miami. Photo by C-M.

Hold on to your egg salad sandwiches: In just a couple of hours, far-flung correspondent San Suzie will have an incisive report on the happenings at Sunday’s BCAM opening in L.A.

• Gagosian’s moneyed paw prints are all over BCAM.
• The NY Times analyzes the effect of Eli Broad’s coitus interruptus on LACMA as an L.A. art institution.
• A street art map of Paris. (Via Ekosystem.)
• The Boston Globe has a story about how some scholars are questioning whether antiquities should be returned to their country of origin: “As one museum after another negotiates deals, and prosecutors all over the world target the commercial trade in ancient objects, some prominent scholars are drawing a line in the sand, saying that objects belong where they are - that the movement is based on a false reading of history, and, if allowed to progress, could do serious damage to the world’s cultural inheritance.” Um, any more damage than all that museum-sponsored looting already has?
• Spiral Jetty update from the Salt Lake Trib. (Via MAN.)
• The crime blotter: $100 million worth of art stolen–including pieces by Cezanne and Degas–from Zurich museum.
• Has everyone been too hard on the Smithsonian’s profligate spender W. Richard West? No, they haven’t, says the Washington Post, but we should probably bag on his bosses, too.
• British public sculpture: Enough with the “Frankenstein monster memorials.”
• No Art for You: Fisk University will not be allowed to sell the Stieglitz collection to the Wal-Mart Museum.
• Tristan Eaton’s blue suede shoes.
• Hot shit, I’m gonna get me a buckle cam and head right over to the 303 Gallery.
• And I Quote… Jimmy Breslin prefers the New York City of the Mafia to the New York City of the hedge fund managers: “They ought to let the Mafia shoot the hedge-fund people.”
• New York, all old school-like.
• The Day in Wishful Thinking: Is the art market recession proof? (Via Arts Journal.)
• Wired is having a Holga photo contest.
• Scientists are using T-Rays to look through art. (Via Arts Journal.)
• Green Porno.
• Q&A with Kehinde Wiley. Also: Get the lowdown on his pieces at the National Portrait Gallery in D.C. here.
• Video from the Guy Ben-Ner show at Postmasters.
• Not all is frosty between the Ruskis and the Brits: Norman Foster’s Crystal Island project in Moscow receives preliminary planning approvals. And, writes Christopher Hawthorne of the L.A. Times, “As a monument to the petro-wealth sloshing across much of the world, and of the stark gap between rich and poor in post-Soviet Moscow, [it] could be hardly be more perfect.”
• S.F. container house by Leger Wanasjela Architects. (Via Coudal.)
• Photos from the public opening of Frank Lloyd Wright’s La Miniatura in L.A.
• Green synagogues.
• The seven habits of highly effective spaceship captains.
• A Q&A with authors Daniel Alarcón and Alex Espinoza.
• Cheeseburger in a can.
• Art of the Day: Criollo by Edgar Orlaineta.
• Your moment of crazy GIFs. (Via Fecal Face.)