The Digest: Montezuma’s Revenge Edition.

Image by Dan May.

• Having run out of modern art to acquire, MoMA is now going contemporary.
• RVs for archinerds: Rolling huts by Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen.
• When art imitates sixth grade doodling: Michael Scoggins’ SuperJesus (at the Freight + Volume Gallery) versus Martin Bromirski’s (aka Anaba) grade school rendering of Sister Dolorata. We report, you decide.
• Dog Days in Bogotá: Alec Soth discusses his new book of photography, which partially addresses a topic near and dear to my heart—Latin American street dogs.
• Don’t get too close: New Museum lookin’ good…from across the street, says the New Yorker.
• The McGuggenheim, coming soon to an emirate near you. (Via Art Observed.)
• What is the sound of an art bubble popping? It’s the serpent-like hissing of a slow deflation, actually.
• Sublimely alarmist post of the day: When art ills. (Via Art to Go.)
• More hyped than the ’08 election: the Whitney Museum’s ’08 biennial.
• Artworld smackdown: The Guardian‘s Jonathan Jones versus British public art.
• Architecture world smackdown: Frank Gehry versus his contractor.
• Nature Break: Earthrise.
• In NYC: Mariko Mori at Deitch, Lawrence Weiner at the Whitney and Kori Newkirk at the Studio Museum.
• In L.A.: Martin Ontiveros at GR2.
• In San Francisco: Mary Blair at the Cartoon Art Museum.
• Microsoft videogame banned in Singapore because of hot lesbian alien/human kissing scene. Because lord knows that a little girl-on-girl tonsil hockey is way more profane than a bunch of dudes getting their heads blown off.
• Greenpeace climate change art show: not scary enough, reports Bldgblog.
• Miami’s Museum Park gets a downgrade. Still no word on whose gonna pay for it. (Via Critical Miami.)
• Artist quote of the day: Maria Jose Arjona on conceptual artist Chris Burden: “If I want to see somebody get shot, I can go back to Colombia.” Or she could just stay in Miami.
• You too can walk on water.
• Graff of the Day: Deuce Seven. (Courtesy of 14-2-1.)
• El Fin: Special Top Ramen flavor packet edition. (Via Eclectic Cow.)