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DrinkPeeDrinkDrinkPee, a sewage processing organ, by Rebecca Bray and Britta Riley in Feedback at Eyebeam, through April 19th. Photo by C-M.

• A collection of inventive recycling. (Via VSL.)
• The history of the photo booth.
• Fecal Face Photos of the Day.
• Photo Essay: The world of Edo Japan.
• Client 9 T-Shirts. Plus: The Daily Show’s take on our horndog governor.
• I heart modernism. Especially as portrayed in the video at the top of this site. The toaster, with special toast warming compartment, is especially dreamy. (Thanks, Antonio.)
• In other surreal modernism news: Kenny Chesney shot a music video at Van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House.
• All that talk about Rem Koolhaas’s Dubai Death Star brings to mind this unforgettable piece of cinema.
• Hitler’s architectural vision for Berlin. Not pretty.
• A dose of Tokyo architecture.
• Space monkeys through history.
• The Rutles are reuniting.
• Advertising gone wild. Is nothing sacred? (Via NotCot.)
• Discuss: Martin Gayford at the Telegraph chooses the world’s 50 best works of art.
• Pre-Inca temple found in Peru.
• Things to do in Denver when you’re driving around: See Luis Jiménez’s 32-foot tall Mustang sculpture outside Denver International Airport.
• In related sculpture scoping news: check out Olafur Eliasson’s orb at the Fünf Höfe shopping center in Munich. (Via NotCot.)
• I want, I need, I have to have…a porcelain uterus vase.
• Spooky: The Tokyo Parasite Museum.
• Photo Essay: The legacy of Chernobyl.
• Invader hits Kathmandu.
• Graff of the Day: Stylekonstructor in Moscow. Much more here.
• New book: Phil Frost.
• Pianos as street art. See the pix.
• Don Hertzfeld is so totally twisted. (Via Fecal Face.)
• The LAT on LACMA’s land grab: “Certainly it’s reasonable to wonder why LACMA, which still can’t seem to figure out what to do with the expansive campus it already has, wants to take on the burden of additional holdings across the street.”
• I’m not dead yet: Detroit Institute director Graham Beal has no intention of leaving, regardless of what the NYT says. (Via AJ.)
• A story old as time: Dashanzi, China, once an emerging arts center, now going condo.
• In a related story: Chinese artists still hot, hot, hot.
• Cold War Redux: The Russians are coming!! And they’re buying everything in sight.
• Urban Outfitters biting Brooklyn.
• In what will undoubtedly go down as a not-so-good idea: I’ve been invited to participate in an art blogging panel during the Armory Show in NYC. Also on the rundown are many people who’ve been doing this way longer and will likely have more insightful things to say: Edward Winkleman, Carol Diehl, Paddy Johnson of AFC and Sharon Butler. Joanne Mattera is moderating.
• Your moment of sledding, TV-reporter edition.