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Cumbia Piura, by Carlos Díaz. (Image courtesy of Ojjo.)

• I want, I need, I have to have…a gold-encrusted pistol grip and a De la Cour watch with marijuana leaf motif. Read the full story. (Gracias so very much, Big Papi G.)
• “A clichéed death for the prince of hipsters.” (Hrag Vartanian.)
• MAN reports that industrial plans for fertilizer evaporation pools could make Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty unrecognizable. Plus: conservation talk on land art (including Spiral Jetty) at Art21.
• RISD shuts down museum for the month of August; lays off staff.
• Attendance is booming at Boston’s ICA.
• The National Gallery in London is putting on a show of the fakes and mistakes in its collection. Photos here.
• Recycle LACMA.
• A course on art crime.
• It’s National Art Hate Week. I’m gonna go hate on some art right now!
• 61 Essential Post Modern Reads, an annotated list. (Buildings and Food.)
• Painter Rosson Crow guest DJs at KCRW. Loving the Dwight Yoakam.
• New Book: Photographing America: Henri Cartier-Bresson/Walker Evans.
• On that artsy fartsy reality show: A very entertaining photo essay by Sarah Douglas of the hopefuls. A round-up on Marshall Astor. Plus: some mild scoop on the judges.
• On the James Ensor show at MoMA.
• Todays’ street art: Jok and Guidobobo in Reims, France.
• Miami Beach Commission votes to remove Frank Gehry from New World Symphony project.
• Tom Ngo’s Architectural Absurdities.
• With best wishes to MCA of the Beastie Boys for a speedy recovery.
• A coat of many Kermits. (Thank you, Kerry G.)
• Your moment of drunk people yoga. (Eyeteeth.)