Route 66, by F. Trainer. (Image courtesy of F. Trainer.)

Happy birf-day to The Recluse.

• Radiology art. (Thanks, tabgirl.)
• Art and the legal world: Edward Winkleman provides an exhaustive round-up.
• Shawn Mortensen’s photographs of well-known artists. (NotCot.)
• An interesting panel about rights issues related to the use of photography online is coming up in L.A. next week. Should be an interesting one given the whole cease-and-desist situation between the New York Times and Apartment Therapy.
• Santa Monica’s Bergamot Station art gallery district may be in serious trouble.
• The Saltz-master on the issue of university degrees. (Art Fag City.)
• Awesome video of Sol Lewitt’s wall drawings at the federal building in Springfield, Mass. (Modern Art Notes.)
• Marilyn Minter’s upcoming Times Square videos. Woulda been better if she’d used a pug.
• Rare 1840s daguerreotype of New York—showing Broadway as a country road—goes to auction.
• Art Bum is Facebook friends with a famous critic.
• Top 10 time lapse nature videos. The mushrooms and the Earth rise are pretty badass. (reBlog.)
• The Vietnam War, according to Eddie Adams.
• An 18-year-old in Berkshire England secretly painted a 60-foot penis on the roof of his parents house. Even better: it ran for a year before his parents found out. (Ekosystem.)
• Banksy’s outdoor work in Bristol is framed to protect it from vandals.
• Today’s Graff: Saner in Mexico City.
• Co-opting graffiti: London artist Ryan Frank gets taggers to do his painting for him. (reBlog.)
• L.A. debates the merits — or lack thereof — of humungo commercial signage.
• NPR profiles Julius Shulman.
• The developer of Santiago Calatrava’s Chicago Spire is turning to the AFL-CIO in hopes of funding. In the meantime, the project is on hold. (ArchDaily.)
• Time heals all architecture: Corbu-inspired brutalist architecture is getting its moment of appreciation in England.
• Your moment of grad students, Simpsons style.