The Digest.

The Frieze Art Fair

Photo by Simon Crerar

  • Brain Frieze: The London art fair is actually one big conceptual piece that is all about capitalism.
  • What’s that giant popping sound? It’s Chelsea. Soon to go the way of SoHo.
  • Architecture News Nobody Cares About: The British go all Kanye over the Stirling Prize.
  • Doris Lessing wins the Nobel Prize for literature. (Don’t worry, I haven’t read her books either.)
  • More news about women named Doris: Artist Doris Salcedo’s crack at the Tate in London has already swallowed its first victims.
  • Just because: Cab Calloway sings the St. James Infirmary Blues in a Betty Boop cartoon.
  • News from behind the Orange Curtain: The Birth of Cool at the O.C. Museum of Art.
  • Chicago: Where architecture and American Idol intersect.
  • Visual nuggets: Concept cars at the Tokyo Motor Show.
  • Jonathan Lethem as art? Yes.
  • The Times of London to the Turner Prize: Drop Dead.
  • Memo to the Chicago Tribune ad sales department: Who of you thought it would be a great idea to pair a frat-guy Bud Lite commercial with a nerd-fest video segment on fine art?
  • Your moment of zen.

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