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Dear Obama: Please make this a clean K.O. After eight years of unmitigated political and economic disaster and two years of endless campaigning, I think everyone is ready for a good night’s rest. (Rome graffiti courtesy of San Suzie.)

• Vote No on Prop 8.
• R.I.P Yma Sumac. Video courtesy of my colleague Yvonne Connase.
• Hot Gay Statues, Met Museum edition.
• Art Fag City has a great round-up on the art industrial average.
• Speaking of which, that Sotheby’s auction last night sucked the big one. More here and here.
• Chinese annoyed at upcoming auction of Yves Saint Laurent art collection, which includes two bronze sculptures that were taken from an imperial residence during the Second Opium War.
• Art Lede of the Day: “Biennials are a virus that has spread across the globe.” Photo essay here.
• Virtual tours of the National Gallery. (ackackack.)
• Eco Art Blog has a report on the California Biennial’s Tijuana goings-on. Plus some excellent-looking photographs of food.
• Blood in art.
• Ergonomic steam punk keyboard.
• Today’s Graff: Puak in Hungary.
• Video: Elbow Toe at work. (Dude, what’s with the cow head?)
• Favela Painting.
• Historic modernist office complex (once “the House of Tomorrow”) by Welton Becket in L.A. is in foreclosure.
• Photo Essay: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Marden House.
• The architecture of James Bond movies.
• New book: Ada Louis Huxtable’s On Architecture.
• Slate not a fan of Renzo Piano’s BCAM. (architecture.mnp.)
• Motel hell. (Coudal.)
• Your moment of Neckface Top 5. (World’s Best Ever.)