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Ghost in San Francisco. See his show at BLVD Gallery in Seattle, through May 3rd. (Photo by rdcapasso.)

• The destructive tendencies of tipsy socialites with industrial-strength jewelry: LACMA removes Jeff Koons’ Tulips and Charles Ray’s Firetruck from outdoors due to wear and tear on the sculptures. The Koons piece, apparently, was damaged during the opening, when “a bracelet worn by a reveler scratched the piece.”
• On the possibility of a biennial in Denver: “I don’t think what the world needs is more biennials,” says the director of the Aspen Art Museum.
• For museums: once all about fancy buildings, now all about being green.
• From the Department of But-We-Thought-It-Was-A-Masterpiece- When-We-Hung-It: The Prado pulls Goya’s El Coloso because of suspicions that it wasn’t painted by Goya. (Via AJ.)
• The Krens-master Cycle, Day 45. Why Guggenheim Vegas failed: the art was recycled. Plus: “…nobody was throwing money at a museum housed in a casino, whose majority shareholder, Sheldon Adelson, is one of the richest men in the world.” (Via AJ.)
• The Whitney: First the High Line, now Shanghai?
• Emperor Augustus’s home on the Palatine in Rome re-opens to the public.
• A bitch to dust: 3-D wallpaper.
• NYC’s Flux factory’s final show.
• Quizás, Quizás, Quizás played on Korean gayagums. For the purists: the Sara Montiel/Wong Kar Wai edition here.
• An interview with Adrees Latif, the photographer who just won the Pulitzer for his dramatic photo of a Japanese journalist being shot during protests in Myanmar.
• R.I.P. Magnum photographer Burt Glinn.
• The black and white seascapes of Wayne Levin. (Via Coudal.)
• VBS is in the process of putting up a compelling 12-part video series about the “floating landfill,” a swirling vortex of currents in the Pacific where all of the world’s garbage ends up. So far, they’ve put up six of their reports: Skip Episodes 1, 2 and 5, which are a lot of throat clearing (like, omg, we’re on a boat and we’re bored), and stick to episodes 3, 4 and 6, which are more focused on the topic at hand. (Via World’s Best.)
• Science tattoos. (Via Coudal.)
• Photos from Gary Panter’s show at Clementine.
• “Horseballs help with socialization.” (Via AFC.)
• Graff of the Day: Sqon in Italy.
• Video of David Ellis’s Percussive Cockfight.
• Shepard Fairey redesigns Penguin classics 1984 and Animal Farm (Via NotCot) and a whole lot of Obama posters. More here.
• Chocolateland by Supakitch.
• Vanity Fair Green Issue not really green. But is this really surprising? Does cover girl Madonna—who flies private jets and drinks bottled water—really strike anyone as a poster child of low-key consumption? (Via PDN.)
• Speaking of green…someone chopped off topiary Ringo’s head in Liverpool. (Via ArtInfo.)
• Airport Architecture Design of the Day: Shenzhen International by Massimiliano and Dorian Fuksas. Plus: the New Yorker’s Paul Goldberger on the architecture of airports.
• Library of the Day: Villanueva Public Library in Colombia by Miguel Torres, German Ramirez, Alejandro Piñol and Carlos Meza.
• Protecting Bertrand Goldberg’s buildings in Chicago.
• Edificio Corporativo Vespucio Sur by +arquitectos in Chile.
• Photos of Oslo’s brand new opera house. (Via NotCot.)
• Freaky kids in food ads.
• Your moment of booyakasha.