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Madeline Tindall, age 9, at the Pensacola Museum of Art. (Photo by C-M.)

• America the Gift Shop. (Art to Go.)
• Like, OMG, total weirdness. Because of an L.A. Times Culture Monster post, C-Mon has been linked to by James Frey. Yes, that James Frey.
• In addition to Sarah Palin’s whoa-nelly clothing budget, the Republican National Committee spent $6,000 on art restoration during the month of October. (Art Fag City.)
• Damien Hirst on art dealers: “…the money men will tell you anything to not have you realise their real motive is cash, because if you realise - that they would sell your granny to Nigerian sex slave traders for 50 pence (10 bob) and a packet of woodbines…”
• The Warhol Family Album. (Hrag Vartanian.)
• The country that brought you the Marquis de Sade has censored photos of a Russian artist simulating bestiality.
• Art, these days it’s all about collecting.
• L.A. art continues to get a boost: Getty Foundation is expected to award $2.8 million in grants to support shows that explore the development of the city’s art scene after WWII.
• Vintage manga from 1967.
• Art review of the day: “The show here lacks this altogether, substituting swagger for judgment, bluster for nuance, and in art, as in politics and finance, we’ve had enough of that approach already.”
• Photo Essay: The revolutionary art of Emory Douglas.
• I want, I need, I have to have…a blendie. Don’t miss the video.
• Today’s Freight Graff: Gee-Wiz and Do-It in Atlanta.
• Sometimes it’s best to just accept the graffiti.
• Totally weird children’s TV. Seriously worth it for that first Teletubbies video. (ackackack.)
• Architectural ghosts: A photo essay on the last traces of the Old Hudston Terminal in NYC. (architecture.mnp.)
• Looks sorta neo-brutal: Milanese university faculty building by Grafton Architects wins World Building of the Year Award at the first World Architecture Festival in Barcelona.
• A Thai Buddhist temple made of beer bottles.
• A century and a half of New York Times presidential endorsements.
• Your moment of Wassup 2008.