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VM Housing by PLOT, in Copenhagen. (Photo by Seier + Seier.)

• Blank façades. (Via On Shadow.)
• What do all those stampeding Baselistas eat for lunch? Sausage. Plus: What the Baselistas are buying.
• A trash-art round-up (thanks, Luna!). In related news: Guggenheim construction debris now being hawked as jewelry.
• The Getty acquires its first piece—a 3^rd century Roman sarcophagus—since the whole antiquities repatriation brouhaha began. More here.
• R.I.P.: Klaus Perls, art dealer who gave Picassos and Modiglianis to the Met, and Alton Kelley, psychedelic rock poster artist.
• The Day in Abrupt Career Changes: The work of Jess, an atomic bomb specialist turned painter.
• Hilarious: Would Stonehenge be built today? (Via AFC.)
• Now you can decorate your wheels with vinyl car stickers by Buff Monster, Dalek and Cycle.
• Photo Essay: The Rockabilly dancers of Yoyogi Park.
• Puerto Vallarta trying to reinvent itself as an arts destination with the debut of a contemporary arts festival.
• No Broke People Allowed: There are plans to deface NYC’s Union Square with a private, upscale restaurant (via Hrag). More here.
• Awesome photography site: The Boston Globe’s Big Picture. (Via Kottke.)
• Small-lot living in L.A.
• Is buying a piece of historic Modernist architecture worth the investment? (Via Unbeige.)
• Pritzker Prize winners to descend on Charlie Rose tonight for architectural gangbang.
• Ekosystem.org is now hosting several European street art/graffiti blogs on its page by folks such as Wayne Horse, Monsieur Poulet and Vitostreet. See the latest blog posts here.
• Graff of the Day: SE53 in St. Petersburg, Russia.
• A Q&A with Gary Baseman: “Age: Old enough to be your father. But young enough to fuck your sister.”
• Revamped Graphic Equalizer.
• Late Addition: Salman Rushdie on Colbert. Sublime.
• Your moment of gay Travelocity ads. (Merci, Mlle. Connasse!)