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Caleb Neelon mural in L.A. His show, Caleb Neelon is Working On It, opens at the Carmichael Gallery this Saturday. (Photo courtesy of Carmichael.)

• HowISpentMyStimulus.com. (Via Coudal.)
• Shepard Fairey talks to Animal New York about his vision condition.
• Graff of the Day: Bastardilla in Colombia.
• A story about street art, on and off the street, by Hrag Vartanian in the Brooklyn Rail.
• Fecal Face has an interview with D*Face. Plus: Images of D*Face in S.F.
• Melodramatic Norwegian anti-tagging ad. (Via What You Write.)
• New Book: Andreas Gursky.
• Son of Rambow. This looks rad.
• “Shoot the Headline Writer.” CultureGrrl deconstructs the NY Times bogus auction coverage of Christie’s weak sales. She also reports that last night’s Sotheby’s auctions met expectations (and set a record for Léger), much to the relief of the art industry at large. If you don’t keep up on the minute-by-minute cash register ka-chings, Looking Around has a nice round-up of what’s been going on in the Art, Inc. sales department.
• There’s a rippling crackle going through the Russian art market, caused by a report claiming that 800 paintings in private collections there are fakes.
• Carnegie International is going gangbusters, reports the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. (Via AJ.)
• Art to Go, on the Chinese artists p.o.’d by the fact that the Estella Collection didn’t keep its promises: Welcome to Capitalism. She also offers this sound advice: get it in writing.
• The Day in Hyperbolized Art Conjecture, a gallery write-up comparing artist Chris Burden to Johnny Knoxville of MTV’s Jackass: “Almost three decades earlier, the artist Chris Burden choreographed a performance in which he had an assistant fire a single shot to his left arm. Knoxville’s act [getting shot while wearing a bulletproof vest] was a stunt, Burden’s Shoot sited as it was within the time frame of the Vietman War, understood as political/social gesture, contextualized as Art performance, was so much more. Both shots made a sound, Chris Burden’s was heard round the world.”
• Provocative Art Headline: “Is contemporary art paying too much attention to work that should be ignored?” Provocative Art Answer: Hell yeah. (Via AJ.)
• Missing sculpture by Margarita Checa shows up at L.A. gallery’s doorstep three years after it disappeared.
• In England: When public art commissions go BIG.
• Pork topiary.
• This should be good in its badness: Art for the political conventions.
• The work of Fernando Orellana. Check out his piece Extruder, which makes little cars out of Play-Doh.
• “It is now widely accepted that the art history of the second half of the 20th century is no longer a history of artworks, but a history of exhibitions.”
• Planet-Douche. (Via NotCot.)
• Life Without Buildings has a series of posts, in one, two, three parts, on how architecture and Star Wars intersect. Complete with visuals. (Via architecture.mnp.)
• The Month in Ironic (and Frackin’ Hilarious) Architecturespeak: The story of John Jessop, of the U.K., who had to provide a “design access statement” about a small shed on his farm. (Via Unbeige.)
• More Hollywood + Architecture: Neutra’s Lovell House in L.A. confidential.
• Concrete bat roosts help reforest. (Via The Show So Far.)
• Booty shot of the Day.
• Space porn: The Gegenschein over Chile. (Via Coudal.)
• Your moment of Don Rickles roasting Ronald Reagan.