The Digest. 08.10.09.
Graffiti feet in Rome. (Photo by Celso.)
Congrats to the I-Man for winning the C-Mon Giveaway Extravaganza, Dudamel edition.
- New Scientist reports on the 10 things we don’t understand about humans. Number 7: Art. (What a Lovely Recession.)
- The Museum Bubble. (@KnightLAT.)
- Sorta related: The best paid museum directors.
- LACMA’s film program seems to be making a comeback.
- New Rembrandt.
- James Frey’s Public Stoning — as painted by Ed Ruscha. (Modern Art Notes.)
- A round-up of stonerrific things: Evel Knievel, books as art, wood shingles gone crazy.
- Reading the Clinton/Kim Jong Il photo. (Arts Journal.)
- That bizarre point where installation art and zoos intersect. (Travelers Diagram.)
- A show called Don’t Panic, I am Selling My Collection.
- Child beauty pageants.
- Art and food.
- Plus: What a famous hipster-artist diet looks like. Perfect for a new drinking game I like to call “Drink every time a celebrity’s name is dropped.”
- El Celso is looking for art. To burn. Send your submission today!
- MUST READ: Is it a crime to be poor?
- Today’s Street Art: Blu in Belgrade.
- Book store porn.
- Awesome essay in Chicago Trib on what is happening to Millennium Park’s fancy architectural pavilions at the hands of the crowds.
- A floating apartment complex.
- Your moment of orangutan. (@kenwheaton.)