The Digest. 01.08.08.

Migrant worker at Beijing’s rising Olympic stadium. Photo by DonDomingo.

• Psyche! No art for you: LACMA isn’t getting Eli Broad’s collection. And neither is anyone else.
• And speaking of LACMA, they have a show on L.A. art that is devoid of L.A. artists. And they made Tyler Green stand in line. They should just give up now.
• MoMA parking lot to be turned into giant trailer park. Broken-down refrigerators not included.
• In related news: A 2008 New York museum preview.
• Da Vinci’s The Last Supper: Super Size It!
• Art criticism of the day: Richard Dorment of the Telegraph on Santiago Sierra’s human-doody sculptures: “Sierra is the art world’s own Dave Spart, a self-righteous, London Review of Books-reading lefty who always has a new axe to grind. Some artists indulge in gratuitous violence; Sierra’s shtick is gratuitous guilt.”
• The Brad Pitt Museum that is not to be.
• Packing tape art by Mark Khaisman.
• Czech art collective Ztohoven to be put on trial for digitally inserting a nuclear explosion into a morning news broadcast.
• French museums to be free. (Via Arts Journal.)
• Photo of the Day: Cosmopolitan Book Shop by Jake Dobkin.
• Mr. Picasso Head.
• Let it be already: The day in John Lennon merch.
• Medieval tech support.
• PDN analyzes news photography of the candidates: Obama portrayed as a hero; Hillary as desperate.
• Word of the Day: “Breastaurant.”
• Letterman explains the writer’s strike. (An aside: As a freelance writer, I have to confess that I’m a little ambivalent about what to feel about the writer’s strike. On the one hand, I support any struggle against corporations with overpaid CEOs who want to pennypinch employees at the bottom. But at the same time, I feel like a maquiladora worker watching American workers demand benefits I know I will never ever dream of having: intellectually, I support them, but I certainly can’t relate.)
  
• In NYC: Oscar de las Flores at Morgan Lehman; New Perspectives on Latin American Art at MoMA and El Anatsui at the Met.
• Your moment of movie pitches: Quentin Tarantino style.