The Digest. 11.08.10.

Rain Delay, by Celso. Shot in Cajamarca, Peru. (Image courtesy of El Celso.)

• Comparative nipple anatomy. (Get the full post here.)
• An ode to donuts.
• “Since 1980 the economy has also continued to grow handsomely, but only a fraction at the top have benefitted. The line flattens for the bottom 90% of Americans. Average income went from that $30,941 in 1980 to $31,244 in 2008. Think about that: the average income of Americans increased just $303 dollars in 28 years.” Bill Moyers, killin’ it. Long but worth it. (joshsternberg.)
• Ai Weiwei placed under house arrest in Beijing for staging a party to mark the destruction of his studio by authorities. Despite his arrest, the party went on without him. Update: Ai has been released.
• A state of the arts in Syria.
• From the Department of Is It Done Yet?: Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia causing consternation on the eve of the Pope’s arrival.
• The rock walls of an Italian church have been found to contain the skull of a dinosaur.
• Conceptualist Hans-Peter Feldman takes home Hugo Boss Prize.
• An extraordinary piece on Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth is available for your listening pleasure at Studio 360.
• Photographing the narcowars in Juarez.
• Annie Liebovitz: Popular with magazine editors. With collectors, not so much. (It Really Makes You Think.)
• Ansel Adams’ 1940s pix of L.A.
• The Jeffrey Deitch home tour. I don’t know about Jesus over the bed.
• Have really been enjoying El Saltzino’s “Ask an Art Critic” feature. But as Tyler Green points out: Cremaster IV? 75 times? For serious? That’s like Star Wars level fantacism. If he did see it, it took up 59 hours of his life.
• Art that makes you go, Duuuuude: Federic Diaz’s Geometric Death Frequency at MASS MoCA. Sorta related: A non-billboard on the U.S.-Canada border by Seattle’s Lead Pencil Studio.
• French street artist JR takes the 2011 TED prize.
• Today’s Graff: With a whole lotta love, from Sencer in Mexico.
• An Os Gemeos poster, for one cent. (World’s Best Ever.)
• NASA has close-up images of the comet fly-by. (Cool Green Morning.)
• Fiorruci Made Me Hardcore. Awesome. (16 Miles.)