The Digest. 03.02.11.

Martin Juarez, an absolutely stunning image given to me by my pal Least Wanted, aka Mark Michaelson. Buy his book.

Congrats (I think) to Moses Hawk for winning the C-Mon Giveaway Extravaganza, Jeff Koons doing it edition.

• Awesome wedding cakes.
• Joanne McNeil and her various online selves. Interesting story.
• The Day in LOL Politicians: Queens Congressman wants to sell “sexist” work of public art on Craigslist.
• Remember those historic hanging-by-a-thread Haitian murals my pal Rosa Lowinger wrote about for WNYC’s Gallerina last summer? They finally made the NYT. (Though the paper neglects to mention the conservators doing the actual work. Boo.)
• An album inspired by Hieronymus Bosch.
• Gary Panter on Jack Kirby. Plus: Panter’s advice to young artists.
• What it’s like to have your painted mug featured in the New Yorker.
• Lights.
• Annie Philbin of the Hammer Museum guest DJs at KCRW.
• Fake vintage Japanese ad mascots.
• The CIA has a Flickr feed. And it’s pretty damn weird.
• A Q&A with photographer Malick Sidibé.
• Clemens Behr: The Merzbau meets street art in stonerrific ways. (IKilledJackJohnson.)
• A graffiti analysis sculpture.
• Things That Are Meta: Cleaning graffiti off graffiti.
• Today’s Street Art, Chuck Norris edition.
• “How can you criticize an artist who gets into the limelight by staying out of the limelight, has a healthy secondary market, has good politics — I think — and seems to be slamming both the art world, and casting doubts upon every other street artist in the universe?” Artopia on Exit Through the Gift Shop, making me rethink Banksy.
• Paper dresses. I want the gold one.
• A building with an integrated skate ramp. Smart.
• Zaha Hadid’s new Guangzhou opera house. (kateopolis.)
• The Best Picture on the Internet. (Art Fag City.)