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Soon Just Memories 2 by Jim Harker in Toys! at Gallery 1988 in L.A., through April 25th. (Photo by Vidalia.)

• Amazing photo essay: A gallery of Olan Mills family portraits (via WBE). And after you’re done with that, check this out.
• New York ComicCon starts tomorrow: Stan Lee will get a legends award. Plus: a story about who owns the characters in comics.
• BLDGBLOG has an interesting post about the sounds of cities.
• Book painting by Mike Stilkey.
• Hot crap on a nugget! James Frey—of I-made-up-most-of-my- memoir-and-got-a-new-one-torn-on-Oprah fame—is part owner of a new NYC gallery.
• Old Yosemite slides. (Via Coudal.)
• The Daily Show on how U.S. gummint leaders worked out, to the last detail, torture interrogation techniques for high-value targets.
• A report on the Glasgow International art show, which will soon likely morph into a biennial.
• Art Cologne starts today.
• Tate exhibits multi-million dollar painting—The Sleep of Arthur in Avalon by Edward Burne-Jones—that it could have bought years ago for £1,000.
• Photos from Camilo Cruz’s show at the Constant Gallery in L.A.
• Photo Essay: The most expensive restoration of stained glass in the U.S., now underway at St. Thomas in NYC.
• Sotheby’s stock needs Viagra.
• The NYT’s blog The Moment discovers the great big Internets by making the following sweeping declaration: “The Web is not just for pornography anymore.” Thank god they cleared that up or I’d be spending the morning watching free outtakes of Butt Bangers VIII…
• The frying pan sculpture at the Culinary Institute of America in San Antonio.
• Photo Essay: The work of Magnum photographer Burt Glinn, who passed away last week. (Dear Slate Online Producers: Any chance you could get rid of the flashing ads for the purpose of photo essays? The bouncing M&Ms make it damn near impossible to appreciate Glinn’s austere images…)
• When commercials imitate cheap horror movies. (The jingle’s catchy though…) (Via NotCot.)
• In related news: Bento lunches as album covers.
• Graff of the Day: Raisin in Nantes, France.
• Graffiti Research Lab in Time.
• “The Audacity of Pope.”
• Your moment of Pee and Poo.

Cassie by Korin Faught, from her solo show at Corey Helford. Photos by Vidalia.

We here at C-Monster.net appreciate nothing more than beautiful paintings devoted to moody brunettes. Giving us a resplendent eyeful is painter Korin Faught, who had her first solo show at the Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City, Calif. this past weekend. Dear Korin: Please call us whenever you need fresh models. We may not be this luscious, but we are definitely brunette. The show runs until April 19th.

More money shots after the jump.

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Peelander-Z at SXSW. Photo by Vidalia.

• The cost of war: One day in Iraq=$720 million.
• Whitney Biennial Review of the Day #1, courtesy of Richard Lacayo: “Its heart may be in the right place, but it emits an awfully faint pulse.” He’s also got a good video piece of the show, in case you can’t or won’t fork over the $15 entry fee.
• Biennial Review of the Day #2, courtesy of Jerry Saltz: “The show doesn’t alchemically add up to more than the sum of its parts.” He’s also got video, that’s not quite as soothing as Lacayo…and that shows him man-handling the Gatorade/plant piece. (Dear Whitney: How come Saltz gets to grope the art and I can’t even take a picture? WTF??)
• In related news: The Whitney has collaborated with The Gap on a line of Biennial merch. Because what the world needs is more T-shirts.
• Smithsonian names new chief: G. Wayne Clough of the Georgia Institute of Technology.
• A Q&A with Jaime Hernandez of Love & Rockets. (Dear Gringos at Anthem Magazine: His name is Jaime, not Jamie. Gracias.) (Via ackackack.)
• Rome’s contemporary art scene: Lots of small kingdoms, no cohesive center.
• Google Sky.
• Vice has a terrific series of videos, in one, two, three and four parts of an interview with Brooklyn artist John Kessler, in which he discusses his kinetic sculptures and what the good old days (as in 1980) were like in Williamsburg. (They’re only three minutes each.)
• The day in neat-o graphics: The Guardian has a 360-degree view of Michelangelo Pistoletto’s mirror installation at Beijing’s Galleria Continua.
• Be obsessed.
• R.I.P. Magda Cordell McHale, founder of British pop art.
• R.I.P. Rafael Tufiño, Puerto Rican painter and printmaker.
• The donut burger.
• Another Lori Early work stolen from Jonathan Levine.
• The art of Shinique Smith.
• When the Glue Society imitates Brian Jungen.
• Graffiti Research Lab’s work featured in a music video by AZ and Styles P.
• Obama street art.
• David Choe in London.
• Street art of the Day: Lignes Rouges in France.
• New Museum tagged! (Via AO.)
• Tax-payer dollars well spent: Denver’s high-tech anti-graffiti cameras fail to catch any graffiti.
• Toast art. (Via NotCot.)
• City of the future to have cooled sidewalks. (Thanks, Antonio. If you keep sending me links, I’m gonna have to put you on the payroll.)
• The Newspaper House.
• Motel 6 gets a redesign.
• The Harvard canteen.
• Zaha Hadid’s Chanel merch art pod opens in Hong Kong.
• For those of you fortunate enough to speak Spanish, El País’s website has started featuring a new short film once a week. Eres, by Vicente Villanueva, is the first.
• A thoughtful essay about the Margaret Seltzer debacle.
• A gallery of troubled men.
• Your moment of American Idol, English-as-a-Second-Language edition. (Thanks, Vanessa.)

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, by Elbow-Toe. Photo by shoehorn99.

Election season means it’s pandering-in-Spanish season: Far-flung correspondent Vidalia pointed me in the direction of some absolutely priceless links she discovered via Very Short List. It turns out that the candidates aren’t just making bad ads in Spanish, they’re commissioning full-blown songs. Herewith, La Cumbia de Clinton, and El Corrido de Barack Obama. Baila, baila, baila, políticos cabrones.

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Chomp. Photo by Vidalia.

• The trippiest video I’ve seen in a very long time: The Pearce Sisters, a BAFTA-winning short. (Via NotCot.)
• Art Story Lead of the Day: “You could almost hear the New York art world breathe a sigh of relief when the Guggenheim Foundation announced today that Thomas Krens had resigned as its director.”
• The Krens-master Cycle, Day 2: MAN, Art Daily, Culture Grrl, Goings On.
• Robert Rauschenberg sues gallery over “art” pulled from his trash. (Via ArtForum.)
• Okay, so maybe that Amber Room isn’t gonna be so easy to find after all.
• Photo Essay: Frida Kahlo at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Plus: The latest Frida merch.
• And I Quote… Andrew Kuo on Charlie Rose, talking about art: “It hangs on a wall. It’s ridiculous if you think about it.”
• The show everybody loves to hate: A preview of the Whitney Biennial.
• ¡Artworld Smackdown! Tyler Green versus the Warhol Foundation.
• Tampa Museum receives $2.5 million gift. (Via ArtForum.)
• Art paralysis, a condition that no doubt will soon be remedied by the pharmaceutical industry. (Via AJ.)
• Photos of Windows.
• Graff of the Day: Zonenkinder Collective and Spectrum Crew in Poland.
• A Q&A with James Powderly of Graffiti Research Lab. (Via Ekosystem.)
• The Day in Sublime Ridiculosity: The Guardian channels All the President’s Men on some Banksy graffiti in a London parking lot. (There appears to be other graffiti in the lot, but the reporter completely ignores it. There’s some crack information gathering for you…)
• Bring on the boogar sugar: there’s cocaine at Colette.
• When you wake up this morning, please read my diary. Look through my things, and figure me out, by Gretchen Bennett.
• Bring back Chris March.
• Lori Earley painting stolen from the Jonathan Levine Gallery in NYC.
• In related news: Stolen 19^th century painting turns up at the Palm Beach Art Fair.
• Monaco House by McBride Charles Ryan in Melbourne.
• The recently renovated Rossio Railway Station in Lisbon. (Via Coudal.)
• I Park Like an Idiot. (Via NotCot.)
• The Global Seed Vault.
• Not safe for anywhere: New Abu Ghraib photos show Americans jailers displaying all the subtlety of Savak.
• Balloon tank.
• Your moment of rockin’ it to the bang bang boogie.

Pictures from Drown Your Boats, Swoon’s solo show at New Image Gallery, in Santa Monica.

All pics by Vidalia. Money shots after the jump.

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