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Dog Lying in the Snow by Franz Marc, 1910. (Image courtesy of lyceo_hispanico.)

• Insanely good long-exposure photographs of crowds by Alexey Titarenko.
• Man accidentally throws out Damien Hirst print. Plus: Thieves steal Picassos from São Paulo museum (via A.J.). In a sort of related story: the demand for insurance on art increases (via A.O.).
• Pro Marlene Dumas? Or anti Marlene Dumas? Anaba reports, you decide. (Read the original NYT Mag profile here.)
• Charles Saatchi buys entire student show. For reals.
• Empty swimming pools. (Via ackackack.)
• Video: David Byrne shows how Playing the Building works. (My earlier report here.)
• Guggenheim Vilnius, not so fast.
• German museum director in Leipzig is under fire for ceding curatorial control to collectors and commercial galleries.
• New York Brutal. (Via What You Write.)
• Video: Henry Moore at the Bronx Botanical Garden.
• The Day in Corporate Spinelessness: How Olympics sponsors are addressing the issue of human rights in Darfur.
• Photo essay: Norman Foster’s Terminal Three at the Beijing Airport, which clearly takes up one ‘uge tract of land.
• The Chicago Trib has a big fat story on the Art Institute of Chicago’s new Renzo Piano-designed wing (still under construction), complete with video and extra photos.
• I’m in a Southwest Kind of Way: An Arizona house by Steven Holl architects and a California house by Tom Kundig.
• A design by Buckminster Fuller deconstructed. Plus: The architect’s personal archive, now in Stanford’s possession, weighs 45 tons.
• Stormtrooper cufflinks.
• Photos: Barry McGee and Doug Aitken at Carnegie International.
• Graff of the Day: 7906, ZKD and Lutsk in the Ukraine.
• You can now do karaoke on your Playstation. Speaking of which, here’s the Neil Diamond karaoke I saw this past weekend.
• Your moment of alligators.