The Digest. 05.12.10.

Nunca, in Milan. (Photo by the wonderful *fab*.)

• Brontë Sisters Power Dolls.
• Congratulations, U.S. citizens, you’re paying the least amount of taxes in 60 years. (@felixsalmon.)
• Plus: Best explanation ever of the financial crisis. (Champagne is the metaphor.) Six minutes and you’ll understand what went wrong.
• Tyler Green is moving his internet taco stand over to ArtInfo. Props to William Powhida for the truly awesome letter.
• The Art Industrial Average is down: Jeff Koons balloon dog fabricator shuts down. (@theartmarket.)
• “…a kind of Disneyworld of the Spanish Inquisition…” Mira Schor on Marina Abramovic at MoMA. Plus: her post includes an interesting juxtaposition with Frida Kahlo.
• David Hockney, like, totally into his iPad. (Thank you, @russelltrombone.)
• Over at SFMOMA: Turning art into cakes.
• Two Million Homes for Mexico, a fascinating photography project by Livia Corona of Mexico’s vast suburban carpets of low-income housing. I’m curious to see how these developments get personalized over time. (Gracias, Big Papi G.)
• You’ve got ’til tomorrow to submit a proposal to Art in Odd Places for their Fall 2010 show in NYC.
• A gyre of cut paper.
• What makes a great portrait? Joerg Colberg asked. A bunch of intriguing folks answered.
• Vintage Japanese steamship travel posters.
• To borrow a line from @vidalia — Mange Against the Machine, a dog that attends protests in Greece. (Eyeteeth.)
• The street photographs of Vivian Maier. (La Pura Vida.)
• Today’s Street Art: Muro in Spain.
• Poster Boy sentenced to 11 months in prison.
• MADA s.p.a.m.’s Xi’an Television and Broadcasting Center. Looks cool. But I’m really over architects building barren concrete plazas around their buildings. It’s bad for nature, and, honestly, it sucks if you’re a human, too.
• Photos of Herzog & De Meuron’s fancy-pants parking lot in Miami Beach.
• How big is the Gulf oil spill? This handy Google Earth app will let you place it over your home city for scale. If you live in NYC: The spill would cover the entire city, along with vast swathes of New Jersey, as well as pieces of Connecticut, Long Island and into the Atlantic. (Cool Green Science.)