The Digest. 11.20.07.

Locust Tank by Nicolas Lampert. Image courtesy of Justseeds Visual Resistance.

• The NY Times leaves neo-Goth behind for a little straight-up Modernism, Renzo Piano style. And Nicolai Ourossoff digs it (mostly). All I know is that if I was a bird and saw those stacks of ceramic rods, I would think one thing, and one thing only: Nest.
• Jeff Koons’s bunny to fly at Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. (Via Art Observed.)
• Artworld Smackdown: Art to Go versus Critics of Dealer-Funded Museum Shows.
• The racing form for the 2008 Whitney Biennial. (Via Art Observed.)
• Charles Saatchi gets a makeover. My favorite: Cowboy Chuck.
• More on the Dark Lord Foster’s canopy at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
• Soon to be on the cover of New American Paintings: Marci Washington.
• Fashion designer Vivienne Westwood: Kookier than ever.
• Reason #4,567 why television news sucks.
• In Vegas (yes, that Vegas): Las Vegas Diaspora at the Las Vegas Museum of Art.
• In NYC: Senso Unico at P.S. 1. and Ashley Hope + Mahomi Kunikata at the Tilton Gallery.
• In Oakland: Anatomy of Folkore at the Johansson Projects.
• In S.F.: Ten more days to see the Date Farmers at Fifty24SF.
• In Sète, France: Graffiti Stories at the Musée International des Arts Modestes.
• Who the hell needs Habeas corpus? Bilal Hussein, that’s who. He is an AP photographer who has been detained by the U.S. authorities in Baghdad for 19 months without being charged. They may soon get around to charging him. For what? No one seems to know.
• The day in graffiti crocodiles: Andrew Council’s Custard Factory in Birmingham. (Via Our Art Site.)
• Time lapse video of the construction of Manhattan’s New Museum. (Via The Guardian.)
• Is a copy of a copy of a copy as good as the original copy? Ask Warhol.
• Hello, Pot? This is Kettle.
• Prepare to celebrate: Buy Nothing Day.
• Photo Essay: Permafrost. Here today, gone tomorrow. Or at least sometime in the coming decades.
• Your moment of magical realism: when sports reporters lose it.