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Nebraska Evening, 1941, by Thomas Hart Benton. (Image courtesy of the Amon Carter.)

In Fort Worth: Views and Visions: Prints of the American West, 1820-1970, at the Amon Carter, opens today.
In Chicago: Heartland, at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, opens Thursday at 5:30 p.m.
In L.A.: Luis Melendez: Master of the Spanish Still Life at LACMA, through Jan. 3.
In L.A.: Kati Heck at Marc Selwyn, through Oct. 24.
In Seattle: The Soil Invitational at Soil Art, opens Wednesday at 6 p.m.
In Seattle: Yellow Terror at the Wing Luke Asian Museum, through Apr. 18.
In Seattle: Parentheses at Western Bridge, through Dec. 19.
In NYC: Edward Burtinsky: Oil at Hasted hunt Kraeutler, opens Thursday.
In NYC: Peter Bialobrzeski, Stephane Couturier, DoDo Jin Ming and Toshio Shibata, The Abstracted Landscape at Laurence Miller in midtown, through Nov. 14.
In NYC: Chris Ofili, Afro Margin, at David Zwirner, through Oct. 24.
In NYC: Eric Doeringer: Sol Lewitt at Creative Thriftshop in Brooklyn, through Oct. 18.
In NYC: Sally Mann, Proud Flesh, at Gagosian Madison Avenue, through Oct. 31.
In London: Anish Kapoor at the Royal Academy, through Dec. 11. Find a webcam for one of the show’s pieces, Shooting Into a Corner, here.
In Berlin: Get Free %, with Steve Lambert, Gert-Jan Akerboom, John Hitchcock and many others, at Golden Parachutes, opens Thursday at 7 p.m..

Detail from Susanna and the Elders, 1938, by Thomas Hart Benton at the de Young Museum in S.F. (Photo by C-M.)

Post modern. Even more post-modern.
The Top 10 most visited museums. Louvre #1.
The Getty’s hipster ad campaign.
How to imitate a MoMA museum guard. Related: Top 10 questions for art museum guards. (Art Fag City.)
An exposé on the Met called Rogues Gallery has the museum’s trustees sweating it out.
Cuba is having its first show of American art in 25 years. (Arts Journal.)
Desperate times call for ridiculous measures: A round-up on the guy in Florida who is suing Christie’s because his Francis Bacon didn’t sell.
Knit lamps. (reBlog.)
Our oceans are turning into “plastic soup.” (reBlog.)
German officials buff famous Berlin Wall painting of Brezhnev and Honecker kissing. (Arts Journal.)
Artist Yale Wolf honors NYC graffiti history with mock plaque and subway posters.
L.A.’s Chaka to have his first gallery show.
Cambodian graffiti.
MBW redoes an Ericailcane wall in L.A. with clip art. (@lunapark.)
Molotow now selling energy drinks.
A.J. Fosik’s beer sweater collection.
Miami Beach trying to cut back on Frank Gehry’s New World Symphony project to save some cash.
Nicolai Ourosoff on rethinking the American city: “The problem in America is not a lack of ideas. It is a tendency to equate any large-scale government construction project, no matter how thoughtful, with the most brutal urban renewal tactics of the 1950s.”
Google Street View time lapse.
Your moment of Andy Warhol meets Rick Ocasek.

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