The Digest. 12.12.07.

Alan Rath at Art Miami. Photo by C-Monster.

• Frida Kahlo on New York: “I dislike the ‘high society’ here and feel a little rage against all these fat cats, since I’ve seen thousands of people in terrible misery.”
• An excellent round-up of titillating quotes from Art Basel. My favorite: “He is a mediocre millionaire loser artist who has impregnated all the women in Paris.” (Via the O.C. Art Blog.)
• Lots o’ pics of various Miami fairs at Critical Miami and a great visual round-up of all the graffiti happenings at Fecal Face.
• Basel may spawn in Beijing, and it looks like Design Miami will be the Baby Daddy. (Via Art Observed.)
• In related news: Mega-important art peddler Larry Gagosian is reportedly eyeing the possibility of a gallery in China.
• Making the mind reel: Banksy pissed about the Not Banksy show at Vanina Holasek in NYC.
• The Israeli/Palestinian wall gets a street art makeover. Again. (Via Ekosystem.)
• As morons people continue to trip on Doris Salcedo’s crack at the Tate, Looking Around compiles a list of truly dangerous works of art.
• LACMA gets a buttload of art, including pieces by Picasso, Kandinsky and Klee.
• National Gallery in D.C. trying to expand.
• Collecting, it’s all for the love of art: “Monet and Picasso are like Microsoft and Coca-Cola. We know the return is less big than on contemporary painting, but at least it’s more secure.” (Via Art Observed.)
• The Dia sells its Chelsea property, which will no doubt be taken over by a Banana Republic.
• It’s all about the Benjamins: NYC galleries to open on Sundays.
• French culture: Not dead yet.
• The photography of Antoine D’Agata.
• If I see anyone wearing these fugly-ass shoes, I will vomit at your feet. (Via Complex.)
• Nicolai Ourosoff has haters.
• So do starchitects.
• Graff of the Day: Giango in Italy.
• In unrelated commercial news: No one wanted to buy Orson Welles’s Oscar for Citizen Kane.
• I’m for any idea that has the potential to aggravate real estate developers: re-wilding Philadelphia.
• In N.Y.C.: Behind the Seen at the Ad Hoc Gallery in Brooklyn.
• In New Orleans: A temporary light canopy by Howeler + Yoon.
• In Tokyo: The C-1 House.
• Your moment of bling: two-wheel edition.