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New York Times photojournalist Dith Pran, with Sydney Schanberg, interviewing a soldier about the American bombing of Cambodia in 1973.

• R.I.P. Dith Pran, photographer who escaped Cambodia’s killing fields. See a photo essay.
• Jean Nouvel wins the Pritzker. Here are the NYT and LAT stories. More coverage here and here. Plus: a photo essay.
• Not to be left behind architecturally: Qatar also has a fancy new museum by I.M. Pei that they want everyone to know about.
• Dezeen’s Top 10 skyscraper designs. (What’s with all the giant dildoes?)
• Architectural rendering of a Washington, D.C. project only features white people. (Via MAN.)
• Shredding for the Big Guy.: The Catholic Archdiocese in NYC is having a design contest for a papal skateboard. The winning design will be given to the Pope during his visit to the city. Submit your design here.
• In related news: Photorealist painter Marilyn Minters has a skate deck series.
• R.I.P. Angus Fairhurst, YBA.
• New marijuana decriminalization bill to hit Congress.
• A story about Crystal Bridges, a.k.a. Museo Wal-Mart. I’m no fan of Wal-Mart, but those northeastern museum types sure get their panties in a knot when an outsider hits the scene. (Via AJ.)
• Audio Slideshow: Enrique Chagoya’s Borderlandia at the Berkeley Art Museum.
• Race and art.
• Ron Mueck in action.
• An online gallery of the work of Puerto Rican artist Rafael Tufiño, who passed away two weeks ago. (Click on the link that says Rafael Tufiño on the left.)
• Hell yeah! Trippy-cool digital art by Erik Natzke and Robert Hodgin. Plus: more Hodgin here. (Thanks to Rabbit Meets Hat for the links.)
• Oh, gag.
• Today’s Art Industrial Average: Not so bad versus heading for a fall?
• Hipster bingo versus Cholo bingo.
• Brian Tolle’s stump.
• L.A. gallerist Merry Karnowsky opens up a second space in Berlin.
• Urban Scene’s paint-by-numbers. (Via graceful.spoon.)
• Graff of the Day: Mambo and Hrvrk in Copenhagen.
• Video of Joshua Allen Harris’s inflatable street sculptures.
• How Banksy got rich.
• A disturbing video about the web of Moonie influence in right-wing U.S. politics. (Thank you, Howard, for the link.)
• This is the type of story that makes me LOL: It’s about the trauma that insufferable yuppie “design-conscious” parents are subjected to when their spawn throw yogurt at the shantung silk drapes. Which brings me to Item #7 of the Top 10 things I didn’t want to deal with in ‘08. (Via Unbeige.)
• For those of you lucky enough to speak Spanish: Bolivian novelist Edmundo Paz Soldán has a good report on Latin America’s flourishing literary non-fiction scene.
• Space Porn: Stellar movement time lapse.
• Your moment of musical rollerskating.