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To and from Montrose, Colo. (Photo by Nathan Abels.)

• Why Korean parks are better than everyone else’s. (Via AFC.)
• Oops: Goya’s El Coloso not by Goya, the Prado announces. It was probably painted by one of his students instead (via A.J.). If you want to see a real Goya, go to the Hammer in L.A., where they’ve got a wall dedicated to his print series Los Desastres de la Guerra, up through July 13^th.
• Hey Big Spender: ARTnews releases its list of the Top 200 collectors.
• Behind the scenes shots of Sol Lewitt’s drawings coming together at Mass MoCA.
• “You can love both Nietzsche and Hello Kitty.”
• Photo Essay: Louise Bourgeois at the Gugg.
• 1 Jeff Koons=4 Sigmar Polkes.
• Winkleman asks: What makes for a good work of art? C-Monster answers: glitter.
• A Current TV segment on the art scene in Shanghai.
• Midwest flood report: An incredible shot of water being pumped out of the University of Iowa art building. Find a more detailed report here. (Via Unbeige.)
• One Post Wonder: A Collection of One-Post blogs. (Via World’s Best.)
• Graff of the Day: Los de la Efe from Mexico.
• Is the Splasher bicoastal? Some hater wrecked a Retna/Dame/Werc mural in L.A.’s Silver Lake area.
• Melodramatic, but gorgeous nonetheless: The restless debts of Third World beauty. (Via Ekosystem.)
• “Graffiti monsters.” (Via What You Write.)
• Sculpture or abandoned building?
• Beautiful shots of Alvaro Siza’s Iberê Camargo Foundation in Porto Alegre, Brazil. More here.
• Critics haven’t been kind to Rafael Viñoly’s proposal for a development adjacent to London’s Battersea Power Station.
• A Marxist analysis of The Simpsons. (Via Eyebeam.)
• Your moment of mirrors.