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Naut, in L.A. (Photo by G@BR!3L.)

• “Researchers discover massive asshole in blogosphere.” (Via Kottke.)
• In keeping with the theme of artists shilling stuff: Timothy Buckwalter has a great round-up of ads with artists in them. The most sublime is a Braniff TV ad with Andy Warhol and Sonny Liston (who keeps gazing at the artist as if he were a space alien), with an earnest voiceover that says, “They like our food, they like our girls, they like our style.” Um, right.
• Keith Haring mural is recreated in the East Village.
• The Wackness: Cheese-ifying New York City.
• Olafur Eliasson in Der Spiegel: “Physical experience makes a much deeper impression than a purely intellectual encounter. I can explain to you what it’s like to feel cold, but I can also have you feel the cold yourself through my art. My goal is to sensitize people to highly complex questions.” (Via AJ.)
• Arshile Gorky and the Armenian genocide.
• A lesson to studio artists everywhere: Shred your garbage.
• Pace Wildenstein goin’ to China.
• Whitney Biennial review of the Day: “The problem, I think, is that the two organisers, Shamim Momin and Henriette Huldisch, are the kind of curators who like art but don’t like looking at things.”
• Vintage Latin American Music of the Day: El manisero.
• Austrian Supreme Court rejects Bloch-Bauer heirs appeal for a sixth Klimt, possibly reflecting a hardening of Austria’s restitution policy.
• Looted artifacts returned to Iraq’s National Museum.
• Some background on the El Greco to Velázquez show at Boston’s MFA.
• Sluggish sales at Art Chicago.
• Larry Salander is the gift that keeps on giving. In today’s episode of As Salander Turns: Larry offers the world his opinion on Damien Hirst’s shark at The Met: “It’s much better than I thought it would be, and it still stinks…I don’t understand where it’s art.”
• In related news: old master paintings don’t do so hot at Christie’s auction. (Via AO.)
• Plus: what happens to all those unsold works at auctions? (Via AO.)
• Paintings of Ophelia.
• Unbuilt Calatrava tower looks a whole lot like unbuilt Howe & Lescaze design for MoMA in 1930, reports Martin Filler. (And they both kinda look like the very built New Museum.)
• U.S. Mayors may be the ones to lead the charge in greening cities. Cuz it certainly ain’t gonna be the federal gummint. (Via architecture.mnp.)
• In a related story: a design for a super green home in Oregon.
• New Book: Construction Site: Metamorphoses in the City, edited by Marie Antoinette Glaser.
• A Flickr set on a shipping container house in Wellington, New Zealand. (Via Moco Loco.)
• The Dark Lord Foster abandons the U.K. for Switzerland.
• A brand spankin’ new L.A. billboard by Augor, Taste Like Gold and Bonks of the Seventh Letter MSK Crew. Plus: Ron English redoes a McCain billboard.
• Graff of the Day: Fat Head in Riverside, Calif.
• Ben Eine in Swindle.
• I want, I need, I have to have…the Elvis bath robe.
• You moment of codpieces, ‘80s-style.