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White Ice by Tema Stauffer. Image courtesy of Jen Bekman in NYC, who’s been getting some super nice write-ups lately.

• Graff of the Day: Yano, Miss-EU, Sonda and Knore in Milan. More here.
• Keith Richards now shilling for Louis Vuitton.
• A Q&A with Wafaa Bilal, the artist behind Virtual Jihadi. More here and here.
• Park Avenue Armory neighbors p.o.’d about all those public functions. More here.
• Photo Essay: Behind the scenes at a rock poster studio.
• Bush’s approval rating: 19%. (Via Hot Johnny.)
• The Guardian asks: Will money ruin the Chinese contemporary art scene? Do you mean: will it, overnight, turn a bunch of artists into stars, demand that they perform like monkeys and then abandon them when the art of some other region becomes super hot? Yeah, probably.
• Smithsonian digitizing its photo collection to create a public, searchable database. Here’s the official website.
• In related news: Notre Dame’s architecture library is scanning their lantern slides and uploading the images onto Flickr. (Via NotCot.)
• Whitney Biennial review of the day: There’s “good news,” reports Artopia, which breaks the show down into a handy numbers list. There are a fair number of women (28 out of 81), West coasters (29) and curators (too many too count).
• The Getty gets bloggy with it.
• Vanity Fair no better than Us Weekly, says the Guardian.
• Crazy. (Via ackackack.)
• Emmanuel Perrotin now blogging for the NYT. (Via AO.)
• Smells like ass: Artist painted a portrait of Warhol with a paintbrush sticking out of his butt.
• Photo Essay: The epic frescoes of Cataio.
• Fetish: Book shelves. (Via NotCot.)
• Fortified cities.
• Rem Koolhaas’s Dubai Death Star. More here.
• Jean Prouvé’s Maison Tropicale to go to Miami for Art Basel.
• Seriously cool urinals. (Via NotCot.)
• Your moment of Thriller, all Indian like.