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Trinity Church in Asunción, Paraguay. Courtesy of the Notre Dame architecture library, where they have been dutifully putting scans all of their vintage architecture shots on Flickr.

• In the Toilet: Bush’s disapproval ratings the highest of any President in the 70-year history of the Gallup Poll.
• Call her Hill-rod.
• The art of Chris Scarborough.
• Modern Art Notes offers a guide on how to keep museum blogs interesting.
• Art to Go and Hrag Vartanian not wild about Eric Gibson’s take on coma-inducing artspeak in the WSJ.
• Bitchcraft, and other magazines we wish still existed so that we could write for them. (Thanks, Yvonne!)
• Also from Yvonne: Shorpy, the 100-Year-Old Photo Blog. Does General Hugh Brady look like a toker or what? Here’s one of Yvonne’s favorites: Hiawatha Noir, 1943.
• Vintage hip-hop photos from 1984. (Via ackackack.)
• The photography of Amy Stein.
• Happy Birthday, Jack Nicholson! Here’s one of my favorites.
• Arts organizations beginning to feel the pain of the recession.
• The Rijksmuseum presents two restored panels by Piero di Cosimo. (Not sure what the deal is with the gesticulating dude in the photo.)
• Pantone’s Color of the Year: Blue Iris. (Via Eyebeam reBlog.)
• Pain as art.
• Japanese construction fences used to display art. (Via NotCot.)
• Photos of work by Martin and Muñoz.
• Art piñatas.
• This news should inspire some action on global warming.
• The converted sea forts of Great Britain. (Via Marshall Astor.)
• John Silber, author of a book about how contemporary architecture sucks, oversaw the construction of fugly-ass buildings in Boston, reports Bloomberg.
• Trippy Mondrian-like architecture of the Day: Qubic Student Housing by hvdn architecture in Amsterdam.
• Book: D Book, a new tome dealing with density issues in urban architectural design.
• Richard Neutra’s Kauffman House in Palm Springs will go up for auction on May 13^th.
• A trip to visit the 12^th century minaret at Jam in Afghanistan.
• Photos from the upcoming Philips De Pury auction, featuring work by Kaws, Nara, Murakami and Barry McGee.
• Graff of the Day: Grito and Ayrz in Barcelona.
• Photos from Ghost’s show at BLVD Gallery.
• Leon Reid, aka Darius Jones, aka Verbs, has signed copies of The Adventures of Darius & Downey available on his website.
• Kinda looks like a Murakami painting: A map showing where news breaks in the U.S. (Via Coudal.)
• Your moment of P.O.’d dancing techno Vikings.