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Blue Smoke, 2006, by Gregory Coates at the New York State Museum in Albany. Made with blue powder pigment and acrylic on cigar boxes. See more images at Anaba. (Photo by Bromirski.)

• Art blog headline of the day: “Help! I’ve got the same taste in art as Hitler!”
• 4,000 year old necklace found in a burial pit near Peru’s Lake Titicaca—the oldest gold artifact ever found in the Americas.
• Joge-e: Two-way Japanese block prints.
• Sexual innuendo in comics.
• Warhol topped Picasso in art sales in ’07.
• A gallery of works that didn’t sell at Armory.
• Videos about the Armory Show, the All-Natural Sleep Aid. (Via Art Observed.)
• The Eve Ensler Art Question of the Day™: If I were a vagina, what would I paint?
• More coma-inducing artspeak, courtesy of the Whitney Biennial.
• Branding babies. I’m gonna name my kid Preparation H. (Via Unbeige.)
• Skullphone speaks about his digital billboards in L.A. What does he say? Nothing that makes any sense.
• Graff of the Day: Murocracia in Spain.
• The mayor of Bristol wants Banksy to tag his city.
• Photos from the Barry McGee/Clare Rojas show at the Riverside Museum of Art. (They even had root beer floats!)
• Trippy new Björk video (not directed by Matthew Barney). (Via NotCot.)
• Wallpaper as art.
• Killing NYC’s West Village with crap-ass megadevelopment.
• The recently arsoned Namdaemun Gate in Seoul to be restored at an estimated cost of £10.8 million.
• The game of architectural whose is bigger. (Via New Modernist.)
• Whose is bigger? Take two.
• How to work the phrase “I’m an architect” into casual conversation. (Via Coudal.)
• Jean Nouvel on Chicago: “It’s territory chosen by the gods of architecture.”
• Andy Goldsworthy-inspired installation of the day: Arne Quinze’s Cityscape in Brussels.
• Malibu house by Kanner Architects.
• Ode to the Moleskine notebook.
• Classic books get chick lit covers. (Thanks, Yvonne!)
• Sea monsters!
• Your moment of Soviet Sweet Home Alabama. (Via Coudal.)