The Digest.

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• Blog Post of the Day: “L.A. is the apocalypse: it’s you and a bunch of parking lots.”
• Art World Smackdown: O’Keefe museum doesn’t want the Wal-Mart folks getting their paws on the Stieglitz collection.
• The Shepard Fairey assembly line keeps cranking. The latest: A new book called E Pluribus Venom.
• Better than the Butterball Turkey Talk Line: The APT Intelligence art hotline, where for $350 for half an hour, you can receive needed advice before plunking down thousands of dollars on the latest by Damien Hirst.
• Ernest Withers, civil rights photographer, 1922 – 2007.
• The Enron of the art world? That’s what more than a dozen lawsuits allege about NYC gallery Salander-O’Reilly.
• You’ve heard of mood rings. Now there’s mood wallpaper. (Sorta.)
• Thinking more intelligently about immigration issues than the yahoos in Congress: Casa Segura, a U.S./Mexico border art project on display at Eyebeam in NYC. (Here is the project’s main site.)
• The NYT on France’s new immigration museum: “A well-meaning dud.”
• Yoko Ono discusses her new art project in Iceland on Democracy Now. It’s called, cloyingly enough, the Imagine Peace Tower. (Which looks suspiciously like the Towers of Light in Manhattan, but maybe that’s just me.)
• From the Department of Eternal Optimism: The owner of the inn where Van Gogh spent his final days wants to buy an original painting by the artist to hang in his attic room.
• Rhode Island artist sets up a “home” in local mall. Gets probation in the process.
• Featured Rant: Critical Miami on Romero Britto.
• New Trends in Residential Architecture: The Home Dome.
• Rosie O’Donnell, er, paints.
• Just because.

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