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The devil in Jim Dine’s ear: Yours truly, at the Getty Villa, taking in the giganto sculpture of the artist’s head.

• L.A. MOCA is in baaad fiscal shape, reports the L.A. Times. “Federal tax returns show that even before the current national crisis, MOCA had been draining its reserves to pay operating expenses. In the meantime, the museum’s staff has grown.”
• More gloom and doom: Pace Wildenstein is laying people off.
• Damien Hirst says art market is overpriced after one of his paintings fails to sell at auction. (ArtInfo.)
• Obama is a doodler. (Thank you, Ryan Frank.)
• Trailer: The Universe of Keith Haring.
• Gerhard Richter’s Betty.
• Video: Charles Krafft on his porcelain weaponry, as well as his favorite spots in Seattle.
• M.I.T. launches “Center for Future Storytelling.”
• WaPo writes about the Bushwick arts scene. (Hrag.)
• Shepard Fairey is one of GQ’s Men of the Year.
• Juxtapoz has begun to put its archive online.
• Today’s Graff: Inti and Laguna in Almagro, Spain.
• The LIFE Magazine photo archive is online (via Hrag.) Story here.
• Reconceiving Wal-Mart: What to do with those abandoned box stores? Turn them into museums. (Arts Journal.)
• A gently undulating boardwalk in Tel Aviv by Mayslits Kassif Architects.
• Not all museum’s are in the financial crapper: The Indianapolis Museum of Art to acquire Eero Saarinen’s 1952 Miller House in Columbus, Ind.
• Plus: The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth to get a $70 million extension designed by Renzo Piano, that will go in front of its original Louis Kahn-designed building. (Arts Journal.)
• Cool Windows: Photos of Herzog & De Meuron’s new arts space on the island of Tenerife. Plus: Schematic video of their 56 Leonard Street project.
• Your moment of If I Can’t Have You. Love the 1970s hair shrubbery. (Thanks, Yvonne!)