The Digest. 09.23.09.

South of the Border. (Photo by Carly Rabalais.)
- Red Dust, photos of a dust storm over Sydney. (Coudal.)
- I Love Me: the trailer for a new doc about Yayoi Kusama.
- SVA asks James Kalm to remove video of Dave Hickey lecture ‘cuz he didn’t ask permission to shoot. (Anaba.)
- Ai Weiwei undergoes surgery for cerebral hemorrhage.
- A crackdown on art in Russia.
- Mind-boggling: Committee report urges Brandeis University to keep the Rose Art Museum open to the public, but remains mum on a possible garage sale of its collection. (@artnetdotcom.)
- I Think I Smell Documentary: Did Jackson Pollock graffiti his name onto his canvases?
- Ed Ruscha stars in Doug Aitken film. No word on whether it contains sex scenes.
- Alec Soth seeking nekkid model in Minneapolis.
- The photographs of Serge Giachetti.
- An incredible piece: South Africa’s Bang Bang Club, chronicling the violence of the apartheid era.
- Really enjoying these images from Martin Parr’s collection of photography.
- Empire State Building Art Deco murals revealed after renovation. (Arts Journal.)
- A newspaper pillow. Plus: Miranda July pillowcases. (Bad at Sports.)
- Oh, the nihilism of it all: The Guardian rehashes Dash Snow’s death and life. (What You Write.)
- The Day in Graffiti Animation: A video collaboration between Blu and David Ellis. Awesome.
- So Death Star: The Dark Lord Foster wants to colonize space. More here.
- Tadao Ando’s Church of Light. An inspired photograph by Edward Lifson.
- Tetris bathroom tiles.
- Your moment of fashion.

Those shots of red dust are super science fiction!