Statue of an Ephebe as a Lampbearer, on loan from the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, at the Getty Villa. More about this statue here. (Image courtesy of the Getty.)

• An annotated view of Roxy Paine’s Met roof installation. (AO.)
• Famous bust of Nefertiti is a allegedly a fake. More here.
• Madoff victims sell their pricey Picassos.
• An update on the MOCA situation in L.A.: Still going, but expect more cut-backs.
• Obama’s 2010 budget gives the NEA a 4% boost.
• Photos from Steve Lambert’s show in L.A.
• In all my Chicken Little running around, I completely overlooked this insightful piece by Christopher Knight on why the Rose Museum is important.
• Another Bouncing Ball has a round-up of cool links, including a visual comparison between Francis Bacon and real bacon. Plus: a gallery of light-related art works.
• Stefan Ruiz’s Kazakhstan portraits.
• Heart as Arena has photos from Zoe Strauss’s I-95 show.
• Subways to scale. (Bloggy.)
• How creativity springs from a choreographed set of events in the brain.
• The burger taco.
• Photos from the Os Gemeos show in Rio de Janeiro.
• Today’s Street Art, Brazil edition: An astute critique of JR’s Rio installation by architectural website BLDGBLOG.
• Street art gets economic.
• Chicago Trib architectural critic Blair Kamin says it should be okay to tear down a squat brick building by Mies at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Hello Beautiful! says not so fast.
• The Zaha to have an exhibit at the Salone of the Palazzo della Ragione in Padova this fall. As always, looks like it’s gonna be trippy.
• Contemporary architecture in paintings, by SerraGlia.
• Bad British Architecture, the blog. (Mockitecture.)
• Your moment of Hava Nagila, Bollywood style.