The Digest. 02.23.11.

From the series Higher Education, by Jörg Colberg. (Image courtesy of Colberg.)

• Manifesto of the 343. Stand with Planned Parenthood. (Thank you for reminding me of this, Mira Schor.)
• Toxic avenger fish.
• Angie Dickinson gives good beat.
• The New York Academy of Art runs afoul of Facebook’s nudity police. You can, however, join a Never Nudes fan page.
• Looks like the University of Iowa won’t be selling that Pollock after all. Related: Modern Art Notes has an interesting interview with Pepe Karmel, the curator behind MoMA’s ’98 retrospective in one and two parts.
• Caravaggio’s police file. “19 October 1604: Arrested for throwing stones at policemen near Via dei Greci and Via del Babuino.” (@thebookslut.)
• Walter de Maria sculpture installed in former Hitler bunkhouse.
• An art video game that kills.
• As the Oscars approach, the chatter is whether Exit Through the Gift Shop is for real.
• The long and the short of it: Good piece by Sarah Fishko on works that are very long and very short. Andy Warhol’s Empire gets a shout out. (@lizarnold.)
• On the state of arts criticism. I love any article that begins with a reference to Julio Ramón Ribeyro. (In Spanish.)
• “My experience has been that the installation of art video is dominated by a need to make audiences uncomfortable; consciously or not, they are designed to be difficult to enter, uncomfortable to occupy, and awkward to leave.” Video art curators, please READ.
• Marshall Astor went to the De Young and found some seriously bad-ass art.
• Digging this round-up of make-up themed films currently featured on Art Fag City.
• Regency Arts Press is doing a fundraising raffle of Ed Ruscha’s Every Drawing on the Sunset Strip. Tickets are $250, but if you win it’s a deal. (If I had $4000 laying around, I would totally buy one of these straight out.)
• Thing That Could Also Be Yours: A vintage Danceteria flyer featuring the art of fetish artist Eric Stanton.
• Duuuuuuuuude.
• Minnesota graff artist gives Titian’s Venus an outfit.
• Today’s Graff: sdkaröe in Germany.
• Steve Powers (aka ESPO) speaks at TEDxPhilly. (Ekosystem.)
• From the Department of Awesome: James Franco, with overweight cats shooting eye lasers.