The Digest. 12.07.07

Work in progress by Santiago Rubino, outside the Fountain Fair.

• The Miami Herald isn’t allowed to say the word “buttplug.”
• From the Department of No Duh: There are too many fairs, reports The Art Newspaper.
• Coverage of the Rubell breakfast: They forgot to mention the piles of latex gloves. (See my report here.)
• The Basel alternative arts round-up.
• They’ll take anything under a million. As long as it’s big.
• Even the hot dogs are selling well at Basel. (Via Art Observed.)
• Basel Video of the Day: The Claw by Arcangelo Sassolino.
• There are people who collect art and don’t make a big to-do about it.
• Movin’ Out: Is it the beginning of the end of Chelsea as a gallery district?
• The Day in Art Hyperbole: “Jeff Wall is arguably the most important photographer on the planet.”
• Oh, that’s where I left it: Long lost Michelangelo sketch found in the Vatican. (In related news: Taschen is publishing a giganto book of his work.)
• The Met rearranges the furniture.
• Visual Nuggets: Barefoot sneakers.
• More signs of the coming apocalypse: The Manhattan neighborhood that was once home to the Vault and the Clit Club will now be getting it’s very own Apple store.
• A graphic novel round-up.
• Couples that poop together stay together.
• More on the rising art industrial average in India.
• Wishful thinking: An animated video about the future of America’s highways from 1958.
• In L.A.: Grafuck at Gallery Nucleus.
• In N.Y.: Bharti Kher at Jack Shainman Gallery.
• In Boston: Oliver Lutz at Vargas-Suarez Universal.
• In Brisbane: Warhol at the Gallery of Modern Art.
• Your moment of light: Minsk edition.