Today’s Graff: Neuzz in Mexico. See more images here. (Photo courtesy of Ekosystem.)
- Fat cars. (ackackack.)
- R.I.P. Alfred Shaheen, creator of the modern Hawaiian shirt. (Hrag Vartanian.)
- From the Department of Art-You-Fucking-Kidding-Me??!! Congress gets a pay raise this week — of $4,700 a year.
- These are the stories that make my heart flutter: Jeff Koons wins lawsuit against Louis XIV heir who wanted his exhibit out of Versailles because it was a “profanization” of his ancestors’ gaudy palace.
- The Day in Total Selflessness: Kim Catrall poses nude…to help keep Titian’s Diana and Actaeon in Britain. (museumy.)
- Bubbles.
- Dogs.
- Snowflakes.
- More garbage=More materials for artists. See the slideshow. (Love the bra made out of Tab cans.) (Arts Journal.)
- The mechanical art of destroying the rainforest. (Coudal.)
- In the interest of brevity: Artist Steve Lambert has been doing four-letter-or-less posts on his Twitter feed.
- Photos of collector Susan Hancock’s Royal/T, an art space/tea shop in Culver City.
- A Kippenberger from a Richter.
- Photo Essay: Growing up with Star Wars. (NotCot.)
- So bad it’s…bad. The Obama Hope action figure. What’s with the giant finger?
- The architecture of möbius strips.
- Michael Wolf’s photographs of architectural density in Chicago.
- The record album covers of Barney Bubbles. Story here.
- The Photographic Dictionary. (ackackack.)
- Your moment of Al Franken, Rolling Stones edition.
