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Denver After Snow by Nathan Abels. Check out the full set of his aerial photography, as well as his website, which contains images of his equally intriguing paintings and drawings. (Photo by Nathan Abels.

• “Are art critics irrelevant?” More navel-gazing here.
• Speaking of critics…that sublime point where LOLcats and Susan Sontag intersect.
• The Day in D.I.Y.: Self-publishing company seeks visual arts book projects.
• A (slightly) new design for Miami’s Museum Park.
• Gameboy bricks.
• Le Manege.Mons Theatre by Pierre Hebbelinck architects in Belgium. (Via NotCot.)
• Mexico City’s religious architecture. (Via ackackack.)
• New Smithsonian director has a whole lotta clean-up to do. (Via MAN.)
• Super Hero Mexicans by Dulce Pinzón. (Via ackackack.)
• The art of Marcie Miller Gross.
• Reduce art flights.
• Video: Installation of Jim Lambie’s striped piece on MoMA’s the Hirshhorn’s lobby, the same style of piece he did for MoMA’s Color Chart.
• “Building crap with other crap.”
• Armed thieves steal 30 works, including paintings by Monet and Cezanne, from an art dealer’s home in Paris.
• In related news: Today is the 18^th anniversary of the theft of 13 works of art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, including pieces by Rembrandt and Vermeer.
• Photos from the Extreme Embroidery show at the Museum of Arts & Design in NYC.
• Donatello’s David once covered in gold leaf.
• Marie Antoinette hot, hot, hot.
• I want, I need, I have to have…one of these planters for my living room floor.
• I’ll take two Jersey girls and a side of Richard Prince: Eliot Spitzer’s prostitution ring also sold art. (Via MAN.)
• Business is brisk at Johannesburg art fair.
• Watch This: The human fall-out from the subprime problem. (I wonder if any of the jackasses who approved these loans are forced to live in tents.)
• Marvel may adapt Stephen King’s The Stand as a graphic novel. (Gracias, A.)
• New Book: The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How it Changed America by David Hadju.
• Photo essay: Philip Jones Griffiths’ photographs from the Vietnam War.
• Graff of the Day: Espo in Dublin.
• Wood radios. (Via Coudal.)
• Your moment of death metal dog. (Via AFC.)