The Digest. 03.24.10.

Nos han asesinado, by Arte Jaguar in Oaxaca, Mexico, 2004. (Photo by C-M.)
- Murder weapons. (We Make Money Not Art.)
- Eyeteeth interviews Izabella Demavlys, a fashion photographer who has devoted herself to chronicling victims of acid attacks in Pakistan.
- Last Suppers gets super-sized. More here.
- ‘Cuz every institution could use some Cuzco School: Colonial Latin American art is finding a renewed interest among scholars and institutions. Fascinating story.
- A literary arts magazine produced by museum guards.
- And they’re off!! The NYT reports on the Art Handling Olympics. Find the photo essay here. (The flaming tape dispenser medals are a nice touch.) Get the full medal rundown at Art Fag City.
- Christopher Knight analyzes the art in Obama’s room at the moment the health care bill was passed.
- A Super Bowl of abstract artists.
- Watch Jeff Koons’ assistants make his work. Speaking of which: Jeff Koons face spritzer. For reals.
- L.A. cultural affairs department faces layoffs. But arts management internships manage to survive budget ax.
- Preserving digital matter: Not as easy as it sounds. CDs and hard drives decay faster than paper.
- MoMA adds the @ symbol to its collection, but what does it get?
- Sorta related: A little man-on-the-street about what everyone thinks about all the nekkid people at the Abramovic show.
- And the award for worst hotel bedspread goes to…
- Rivers from space. (Coudal.)
- Today’s Graff: Some abstract geometry courtesy of Selon in Brazil. More here.
- Houses on rings.
- Renzo Piano’s modern wing at the Art Institute of Chicago is now certified green. And it looks like it didn’t come cheap, ‘cuz the museum is raising admission…by 50%. (Correction: The museum announced the admission hike last spring. The hike has just now been approved by the city.)
- Sorry, Minnesota: The world’s largest shopping mall. Whoa. (Steve Lambert.)
- A building that looks like a fur hat.
- Lazertits. ♥♥♥ (Dimensions Variable.)

Re: The world’s largest shopping mall…sacredieu! That is one amazing testament to the follies of vainglory!