The Digest. 11.23.07.

holga. motel, salton sea, ca. 2000 by eyetwist.

• Slate rhapsodizes about the overwhelming American influence on the architectural history of the hotel. Yet, oddly, makes no mention of the motor court. What could possibly be more American than finding the shortest distance between a car and a bed?
• The British take their sex (exhibits) with a heaping side of seriousness. Unless, of course, they are a member of Parliament.
• Getting all street arty-like in Boston.
• MoMA remembers that there are Latin American artists other than Kahlo and Rivera (and Armando Reverón.) And not a moment too soon: cuz a bunch of Chilean journalists were just asking Glenn Lowry about the museum’s Latin American holdings.
• The Detroit Institute of Arts gets gussied up. Here’s what the locals have to say about it.
• Please don’t hump the art.
• A casting suggestion for ArtStar: Get a street artist. Preferably a rather unhinged one that’s all twitchy-like from inhaling so much spray paint.
• Félix González-Torres’s installation at Harvard’s Carpenter Center makes damn fine eatin’.
• Media World Smackdown: Business Week’s Jon Fine does an atomic knee drop on the NY Times’s David Brooks. Take that, Institutional Media. (Via MediaBistro.)
• Last week’s art-in-the-trash find: Goicolea. This week’s art-in-the-trash find: Arbus.
• From the Department of Artistic Evolution: Literally. (Via Hustler of Culture.)
• Damien Hirst: When art imitates The X-Files.
• If only Giuliani would take up photography.
• In Miami: Cristina Lei Rodriguez at Vizcaya.
• In New York: Duke Riley at Magnan Projects. (See my earlier post on Riley here.)
• In L.A: Street art of the day.
• In Washington: A photographic exhibit about our impending doom.
• Your moment of dada: Kansas-style.