The Digest.

Photo by darkmatter

• Art is the new bling. (Via Art Observed.)
• Vice Magazine: From (puffy) hype to (serious) hype.
• Photo Essay: The art of the American snapshot, at the National Gallery in D.C.
• Artworld Smackdown: Büchel vs. MASSMoCA, the fascinating blow-by-blow. Moral of the story: always get a signed contract.
• Marjane Satrapi on being a comic book artist: “People either like to write or they like to draw. And we like to do both. We’re like the bisexuals of the culture.”
• Interesting New Buildings: the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas and BMW Welt in Munich.
• A better view of Damien Hirst’s shark tank.
• Doris Salcedo talks about her crack Shibboleth.
• In related news: the Tate Liverpool is now tripping people with a plank. (And the Guardian doesn’t like it. At all.)
• Wearing religion on your sleeve, literally: the art of Azra Akšamija.
• Is anyone else creeped out by the proliferation of mercenary armies?
• Hokusai-inspired graff of the day.
• Blow Your Mind: Warhol’s films at the Museum of the Moving Image in NYC.
• Separated at birth: Richard Prince and Christopher Wool.
• Separated at birth: Hot-off-the-presses Edition. Alexsandra Mir’s show at Mary Boone and Scott Hug’s exhibit at John Connelly Presents.
• Calling All Art Bloggers (Serious Ones): Dissect what you do for academe.
• And I Quote: “Anybody can crush big things with the giant hand.”
• Yet more evidence that mother earth is pissed.
• R.I.P. Salvatore Scarpitta.
• Celebrities X photos of celebrities X mockumentaries about celebrities + ½ (Miuccia Prada) = The art of Francesco Vezzoli.
• The Day in Kara Walker: Robin Givhan on her show at the Whitney + Walker’s (free) show at Sikkema Jenkins.
• When Weed Goes Star Wars: “I held my first hit in forever, and totally went to the death star.”
• Just because.

Disclaimer: This has been written under the narcotic influences of NyQuil.

Posted by C-Monster