• Is Google making us stupid? (Via Art21.)
• The paintings of Elsie Kagan. More here.
• Keeping the donors placated: Exhibit shut down at Chicago’s Jewish Museum for being “anti-Israel.” (Via MAN.)
• Is a copy of a Guggenheim copy still a Guggenheim?
• For those who really really care: The full 23-page contract (in French) between the Louvre and the government of Abu Dhabi. (Via Culture Grrl.) Get the summary here.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art reopens. (Via MAN.)
• Art patronage: Now the province of the über young.
• Man charged with plotting to sell a stolen Monet.
• Getting Geometric: Photos of the Esther Stocker exhibit at Museum 52 in London.
• A gallery of creepy paintings. Related: the grotesque in art. (Watch the video on the latter, which is amazingly twisted, in a good way.)
• UCLA Japan scholar Adrian Favell puts Murakami into context. (Via Marshall Astor.)
• Call for entries: Artists that live in Queens.
• Art sentence of the day… The Guardian on Richard Prince at the Serpentine: “So, it’s sexist. But is it interesting? Gosh, no.” And: “It resists long looking; sometimes, it resists looking at all.”
• The sculptures of Ryan Johnson.
• Graff of the Day: Revok, Zesor and Augor in L.A.
• Frank Gehry to receive lifetime achievement award at Venice Biennale.
• World Trade Center rebuild won’t be finished until the middle of the next decade. And it’s gonna cost $3 billion more than planned. (Via The Skyline.)
• A scaled replica of a cell in Guantanamo Bay is traveling the country. (Via architecture.mnp.)
• Modern treehouses.
• Your moment of fox on a trampoline.

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“They say two glasses a day is good for your heart.”

“I say even three glasses.”

“Why not four?”

Chabliss.

“And then I says to him…”

She always cheats.

But so do I.

The Surgeon General can go fuck himself.

Drop Dead Gorgeous.

Photos by C-M & S-S. Posted by C-Monster.

Reporting live, from Lincoln Heights.

• ArtNet’s Charlie Finch says that art bloggers are “conformist, reactionary, redundant and self-referential…the Sam Brownbacks of the art world.” I think of myself more as the Dennis Kucinich of the art world. Seriously nerdy, mildly entertaining, with no shot in hell of ever attaining any kind of real influence.
• © Murakami: Supertouch and Eric Nakamura blog the museum and the parties, respectively. The L.A. Times deconstructs Kanye and reviews the (art) show, while the L.A. Weekly profiles the ah-tist. (My own Murakami post seems to have evaporated into the ether. Sorry for the technological turbulence, folks. I’m not very handy with these new-fangled computer thingies. Whew. Found it.)
• Get it Louder: Work by Japanese emerging artists. Check out the Akino Kodoh video.
• And because we seem to be on a Japan kick: Japanese manhole covers.
• The wonderful world of fine art authentication, according to the Daily Show. (And Culture Grrl does NOT find it funny.)
• More signs of the coming apocalypse: Andy Warhol cologne.
• Graff of the Day.
• The Tate and the National Gallery get a buttload of art, including pieces by Cezanne and Monet. See a slideshow of some of the works here.
• Your art in lights.
• Art vandalism is so two weeks ago. Now it’s all about art theft.
• In New York: Neckface at the Dactlye Foundation and Martin Puryear at MoMA. (For a serious mind-fuck, see both shows on the same day.)
• In Seattle: Juan Alonso at Francine Seders Gallery.
• In Paris: Peinture Fraîche at the Centre Pompidou.
• In S.F.: Jeff Wall at SF MoMA.
• In Baltimore: Outsider artists at the Visionary Art Museum.
• Bernard Tschumi’s new Acropolis Museum. (Way better than the blue hand fisting lower Manhattan.)
• Chicks with knives: A profile of Naomi Fisher.
• Don’t let the door hit you on the way out: Miami Carnival Center CEO gets the boot.
• The latest art-in-the-trash find: Martín Ramírez.
• The day in recipes: pot brownies. (Via Eclectic Cow.)
• Just what I needed: a living dead sharpener.
• High-res Last Supper now available for scrutiny by Dan Brown fans.
• Bank$y $lept here.
• El Fin: Super special knife-licking, towel-snapping edition.