The Digest. 09.25.08.

LAME, by Deeker, in NYC. (Photo by C-M.)

• So what do you get for more than a year’s worth of unpaid blog labor? Some newspaper, run by a nutso bajillionaire, lifts your name (or at least a version of it). Many thanks to LAist, L.A. Observed, Art21 and Art to Go for the nice pieces. And super gracias, Heart As Arena, who has changed his name to Heart As Monster in protest. (It has a nice ring to it, really…) P.S. Haven’t heard word one from the Times, where, by the way, I worked as a desk assistant in the features department when I was in college. 
• Rad gif.
• Kerry James Marshall on museums. Very thoughtful.
• Curator or promoter? The fine line museums tread in working with dealers.
• Art Criticism of the Day: “But the autumn’s most eagerly awaited exhibition, the one that is generating the biggest noise and by far the most frantic ticket sales, is the one that is, on the face of it, the most difficult: the dark and completely abstract paintings of a depressive, alcoholic and — let’s be polite here — unphotogenic New Yorker who, even 20 years ago, would have been considered almost laughably abstruse — Mark Rothko.”
• In Japan, media companies play important roles in presenting art exhibitions. Which leads me to believe that in Japan, media companies must actually be relevant. (Via A.J.)
• These days it’s all about miniature sculpture.
• Mark Bradford’s post-Katrina ark. (Boy, does it make me gag to link here, but I’m gonna be the bigger Monster.)
• A slideshow of the Francis Bacon retrospective at the Tate.
• Forger cooked up his fake Vermeers in a pizza oven. For reals.
• Kate Moss to be the subject of a Paris exhibition.
• Awesomeness: Princess Leia as a Nagel.
• Dennis Hopper, aesthete.
• Graff of the Day: Joe83 in Poland.
• Letterman on McCain. Plus: Brown people on brown people. Sublime.
• Parametricism, the new word in architecture. Also known as: Zaha Hadid Architects want to baptize their own movement. (Via architecture.mnp.)
• Looking Around has a report on Brad Cloepfil’s redesign of the Museum of Arts and Design. And a certain L.A. newspaper has one, too.
• Lovely images of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s new cathedral in Oakland. (Via NotCot.)
• Slate isn’t too wild about the Pentagon’s 9/11 memorial: “The overall effect is also oddly unresolved, almost nihilistic.” (Via A.J.)
• Ford redesigns the Mustang logo. Interesting fact: C-Monster learned to drive in a Mustang. A cherry-red V-8 number from ’67.
• And this little ditty is for all my friends over at the L.A. Times…