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Evelyn Metzger remixed: Do I have mad drawing skills or what? See this work of artistic genius, along with many others (including a vandalized Anthony Goicolea print), this evening at Super Combo, in NYC.

• The Cupco Castro plushie.
• A preview of the Murakami show at the Brooklyn Museum. Plus, the NYT review: “Those who attack a store in an art exhibition might better protest the recent and quite awful redesigns of several of the Brooklyn Museum’s permanent collection galleries.”
• Rad-looking sculpture of an upside down cathedral, by Dennis Oppenheim, gets the boot from a Vancouver park—a work, by the way, that NYC’s public art program was too chickenshit to show. (Via AJ.)
• A review of the Berlin Biennial: Where’s the art?
• Photo Essay: The art of Georganne Deen.
• Visual AIDS web gallery.
• Paintings of junk food.
• Goth culture in art, from an exhibit in Yokohama.
• A letter by Paul Gaugin, describing how much it sucked to hang out with Van Gogh, quadruples estimate at auction.
• Dos gardenias para ti.
• Bigger than the GNP of a small, Third World country: Colossal $600 million private sale of Ileana Sonnabend’s collection of paintings and sculptures.
• Seeking landmark status for Herbert Bayer’s Earthworks at Mill Creek Canyon in Kent, Wa.
• Trippy origami.
• Barry McGee profiled in ArtForum. (Via World’s Best.)
• Graff of the Day: My Monsters in Barcelona. More here.
• Blek le Rat hits L.A.
• Sidewalk psychology. (Via ackackack.)
• Nature is stranger than art—and Spiderman movies.
• Lord Krishna, please pick up the white courtesy phone. (Via Unbeige.)
• Chronicler of NYC: Photographer Sam Horine has prints for sale.
• Photos of the Day: Freshly-painted houses by Jeff Brouws. (Via I Heart Photograph.)
• The International University of Valencia in Spain has announced that it will soon formalize a deal with Frank Gehry for the design of a new structure. (Spanish only.)
• The Death-Defying House by Arakawa and Madeline Gins. Must be a bitch to clean.
• Fundies: The Underwear Built for Two.
• Save Polaroid.
• How to make a cocktail in space.
• Your moment of 1970s pseudo-Russian disco-pop.