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Setting a Good Corner, by Villeroy & Boch, at the Mark Moore Gallery in Santa Monica. (Photo by C-M.) See more pix from this exhibit on The Flog.

• A special message from Sarah Palin (via schmelzenfreude’s Twitter). Plus: The Palin debate flow chart.
• Sotheby’s Hong Kong sales go flaccid.
• In related news: Sotheby’s tried to get the University of Iowa Museum of Art to sell its Pollock last year. Apparently this is bad. But I can’t say I find it surprising. Does anyone really expect Sotheby’s, a pre-Internet e-Bay for high-end garage sales, to adhere to high standards of ethical behavior?
• New galleries opening up in Miami, despite the dour economy. Best part of this story: some German artist will be “interviewing” Mr. Clucky, the Miami Beach rooster, for a video/photo project at Wolfgang Roth & Partners, one of the new galleries on the scene.
• Art on your ass: Murakami jeans. (Via A.O.)
• Art industry hijinks and hilarity: Richard Serra talks about getting a chicken to shit on Robert Rauschenberg. 
• Deep thoughts by Charles Saatchi. Sample: “There is something enchanting about seeing groups of children sitting round a Chapman brothers piece, with penises coming out of girls’ eyes, drawing it very neatly to take back to their teachers.” Plus: a report on his Chinese art show in London.
• Jed Perl examines the “golden age” of the Met. (Via AFC.)
• Warhol’s Polaroids.
• James Nachtwey’s photos of patients fighting a deadly strain of drug-resistant tuberculosis.
• Vintage Japanese matchbox ads.
• Graff of the Day: Plantrees in California.
• A D.I.Y. pixelator, to cover up all those unsightly video ads on the street.
• NY Mag has a profile of Poster Boy, the guy who remixes all those subway adverts.
• Shadow Cities: a fascinating talk about the permanence of some squatter settlements. Related: We Make Money Not Art has a report on an art project that documents squatter settlements inside abandoned or partially-finished buildings.
• Two years after its opening, the Denver Post analyzes Daniel Libeskind’s Denver Art Museum building — roof leaks and all. The Post would also like it if Libeskind stopped knocking off his Denver design in other cities.
• A profile of Renzo Piano, related to the debut of the revamped California Academy of Sciences.
• Only in the Dead-Tree Edition: There is an absolutely hilarious profile of Zaha Hadid in the October issue of Wallpaper, in which Hadid treats the writer (and everyone else) like total crap, but all he can do is talk about how much he love love loves her, because no mortal could ever reach her level of genius. Call it The Story of Z.
• Fixing the Farnsworth House after the flood.
• The real Stephen Colbert on the fake Stephen Colbert.
• Your moment of L.A. Times song dedication, don’t call it a comeback edition.