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Untitled, a video installation by Hugh Walton at the Clementine Gallery in NYC. Through Jan. 5th, 2008.

• Geek graffiti: Lichtfaktor in Germany turns up the lights.
• The New Museum: Critics, start your engines. In the line-up today: Ourossoff. La Smith. Lacayo. Jacobs. And the Grrly Rosenbaum. (Johnson coming soon…)
• Updated: My museum is bigger than yours: Miami’s MAM prepares to unveil unveiled (to the NY Times and the Miami Herald) a working design of their new Herzog & De Meuron building.
• A round-up of Martin Puryear Q&As.
• New York City continues its slow slide into suburban police state: last night, cops were busting art nerds for open container violations outside Chelsea galleries.
• Picking through Gaugin’s trash, archaeologists unearth, well, trash.
• I’m a sucker for a Murakami video. Louis Vuitton logos and all.
• The Day in Well-Known Naked People. More here.
• Everybody chill: A thoughtful take on museum-dealer/collector coziness.
• Visual plagiarism smackdown, Version 2.0: Photographer David Field versus the Armando Testa ad agency.
• From the Department of You-Know-It’s-Over- When-It’s-Reported-in-Time: French culture is dead.
• Isozaki: 1. Calatrava: 0. (Via ArtForum.)
• Destroying Old Russia to make way for car parks. (Via ArtsJournal.)
• Newsflash: A majority of Americans don’t trust media coverage of the election.
• In Houston: The Cool School, a film about modern art in L.A., at the Museum of Fine Arts.
• In New York: Aqsa Shakil at Oliver Kamm, Adam Parker Smith at Priska Juschka and Ron English at the Opera Gallery.
• In L.A.: Shepard Fairey at Merry Karnowsky.
• Your moment of movin’ to the groovin’: swing style.