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Olive Trees. (Photo by John Anthony Frederick.)

• Am I microfamous yet? (Via AFC.)
• Inducing agita in the gallery set: Damien Hirst to auction off his own works at Sotheby’s in the fall. More here.
• Plus: See Hirst’s first formaldehyde piece when the YBAs are reunited this fall at Freeze. More here.
• Picasso sold at auction has the honor of being the most expensive painting ever sold in Australia.
• Painting originally thought to be a Rembrandt knock-off is a real-live Rembrandt, a self-portrait of the artist no less. (Via A.J.)
• Midwest flood updates at Eco Art Blog. Plus: An interview with University of Iowa Art Museum interim director Pamela White regarding the floods.
• The Brooklyn Museum has scanned a mummy named Demetrius and put up 3-D views of the X-rays online. (Via Hrag.)
• Frugal living: How artists survive in NYC. (Via MW Capacity.)
• Legs in pulp fiction design.
• Broken architecture as art.
• At least they’re not tearing this one down: A look at the renovations on the Paul Rudolph-designed Yale school of art and architecture. (Via A.J.)
• Steven Holl and Vito Acconci’s leaky and drippy Storefront for Art and Architecture in NYC to be restored.
• Flickr founders quit Flickr.
• Street View: A portfolio of Google photographs.
• Porn spoofs. My favorite: The Da Vinci Load. (Via ackackack.)
• Graff of the Day: Sinboy in Barcelona.
• More graffiti stop motion animation, this time from Germany: History of Breakdance. In a sort-of related post: a video that combs through all manner of vintage video to show the origins of breakdancing’s moves.
• So totally weird it could be art: La Pequeña Hillary Clinton.
• Your moment of shoot ‘em up.