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• Katya Brailovsky takes portraits of señoras shopping in malls in Mexico City.
• From the Department of Not Looking Good: The Detroit Institute of Arts is in tuh-rouble.
• How the fall of Washington Mutual could affect the Seattle Art Museum. Plus: More on how the financial industry implosion could and will affect the art industry. More here.
• How to be a Washington State-approved artist. Hint: Don’t submit any bronze fish. (Via A.J.)
• A 1985 television interview with Francis Bacon. Plus: Looking Around reports on the Bacon retrospective at the Tate.
• An audio slideshow of the Giorgio Morandi show at the Met.
• And some video of the Jeff Koons show at Versailles. It’s bling-a-rrific!!
• We Make Money Not Art reports on Conflux in NYC.
• I Heart Recontextualization: Art Press Release of the Day.
• Park(ing) Day L.A. is today! (Via NotCot.)
• Graff of the Day: Miss EU, Sonda, Koes, Knore and Vano in Italy. More here.
• Mozes, lookin’ good.
• Banksy stencils getting jacked or buffed in New Orleans. Plus: The Times-Picayune art critic, Doug MacCash, writes an open letter to Banksy (via World’s Best) and deep thoughts from Banksy on advertising.
• Kaws is interviewed by The Moment. Interesting fact: He gets his groceries through Fresh Direct.
• Plus: JR is in NYC.
• For those of you who sprachen sie Deutsch: There’s an interview with my buddy Eko from the seriously awesome graff site ekosystem.org. He gives C-Mon a shout-out at the end. Thanks, dude
• A Frank Lloyd Wright house in Glencoe, Ill. is in disrepair.
• NPR on pre-fab homes.
• More flix from the Venice architecture Biennale.
• Your moment of Cucurrucucu Paloma, Lola la Grande edition.