The Digest. 03.02.09. Better late than never.

Untitled, an installation by Jason Peters, part of last year’s The Light Project at The Pulitzer, in St. Louis. (Image courtesy of The Pulitzer.)

• An international array of matchbox labels.
• Why pictures of coffins are necessary.
• Where Money and Art and Money Intersect: Gold purchased by Gagosian (for a Chris Burden show) is held by the SEC because of its connection to the Robert Allen Stanford’s ponzi scheme case.
• “If I ran the NEA…” (Marshall Astor.)
• Irrational Exhuberance: Jeff Koons and his $25 million dollar train sculpture for LACMA — just in time for the end of the world.
• Art in America Magazine relaunches their website. And it’s lookin’ good.
• W Magazine profiles artist Steve McQueen.
• badpaintingsofbarackobama.com. (Art Fag City.)
• The road signs of Eric Tabuchi.
• Loving those Dyke Action Machine “ads” on AFC.
• Momo designs Yohji Yamamoto’s fashion week runway. (@lunaparknyc.)
• The Internet is causing a “poetry boom.” (Personism.)
• Hijab-izing Paris street ads. Plus: Arts21 asks if there is such a thing as right-wing street art. To answer the question: Yes, it’s called advertising. (To Fear is to Know.)
• The Citrus Report interviews Lady Pink on female politics in the graffiti scene:  “Of all the girls in NY there’s only one bitch that I hate, and that’s it. But for the most part we’re all like sisters, it’s cool. (Juxtapoz.)
• The most abandoned cities. (@bldgblog.)
• Own a Mies van der Rohe in Chicago.
• In Springfield, Mo.: Andy’s Frozen Custard goes, like, totally neon.
• Is Frank Gehry’s Atlantic Yards Project dead yet? The organizers of this petition — who want to prevent the project from getting any federal stimulus money – sure hope so.
• Your moment of flight patterns in the Northeast.