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Chris Uphues at Alcove Gallery, in NYC, through April 12th. Photo by C-M.

• Urge your member of Congress to support the artist deduction bill.
• Speaking of Congress… An animated short: The History of Evil.
• Trying to preserve Richard Serra’s Shift.
• Iraqi artist claims censorship after his Virtual Jihadi video piece is shut down by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY.
• The 100 Best Last Lines from Novels. (Via The Elegant Variation.)
• As it digs for a subway, Rome unearths all sorts of treasures. (Via AJ.)
• Geometric sculpture on Flickr.
• No need to smoke weed. Now you can just drink the water.
• When Mongo Thomson imitates James Turrell.
• The Krens-master Cycle, Day 17: Thomas Krens, you’ve turned the Gugg into the artistic equivalent of Starbucks and now you’re retiring. What are you gonna do? Go on a 1,400-mile motorcycle ride down the Baja coast with Jeremy Irons, Laurence Fishburne and Dennis Hopper.
• Art in the degraded image stream.
• The Brooklyn Museum is now accepting photos for Click!, their crowd-curated exhibit.
• A Q&A, in one 1 and 2 parts, with the curators of the Whitney Biennial.
• Biennial Review of the Day: “The Whitney is not in the business of selling art, but this Biennial shows that it’s nevertheless caught up in the market’s bizarre hysteria, swooning over mediocrity and prodigally handing out prestige.” (Via AJ.)
• Way More Interesting than the Biennial: All those blowhard financial types that Eliot Spitzer has prosecuted are probably now wearing red dresses and prancing around.
• A round-up of worthwhile museum blogs.
• Alternate intro to Star Wars.
• To everyone’s surprise, the European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht is moving merch, including a Jackson Pollock painting for a cool $8 mil.
• In a related story: How many art fairs do you think there will be in Miami this December? Cast your vote here.
• Graff of the Day: Ibie, Sakristan and Edjinn in Barcelona.
• The views from Mt. Everest.
• A history of 20^th century war told with food. (Via NotCot.)
• Beautiful bridges. (Via ackackack.)
• Photos of apartment density in Hong Kong.
• Zaha Hadid is everywhere, except Britain. (Via AJ.)
• A splendid gathering of trailers.
• Steven Holl architects is looking for slaves interns.
• Google’s Zurich office looks like a day care center.
• A gallery of deleted images.
• Your moment of British-ness.