The Digest. 02.06.08.

Insaner in Los Angeles. Photo by Vidalia.

Better late than never…

• Recycled wood sculptures by Diederick Kraaijeveld.
• The old way of finding a new Met director: no bachelors, gays, foreigners or women need apply.
• The Getty Center buys trove of Irving Penn’s blue-collar portraits. (And for some bizarre reason, illustrating this story is a slideshow of his photos of well-known artistic and literary figures.)
• The Denver Art Museum rocks out.
• The White House is giving the Smithsonian a raise.
• I guess the extra money is to cover W. Richard West’s travel expenses, which were more than five times the average of other Smithsonian museum directors.
• Charlie Finch’s opinion of Olafur Eliasson’s waterfalls projects in NYC: Meh.
• NYC’s Martin Lawrence gallery sues for the return of a stolen Warhol painting. (Via ArtForum.)
• The best foto of Wonder Woman. Ever.
• The art industrial average isn’t dead yet: “Urban art” auction rakes in dough.
• Man arrested for selling fake Damien Hirsts on eBay.
• Revok.
• Kid Robot expands into handbags and accessories.
• Lego guitar.
• James Russell at Bloomberg is mystified as to why everyone likes Renzo Piano.
• In Seattle: Trade Bloc: A Group Show of Global Ambitions with Kofie, Other, NISHI, Nhon, Erik Abel, Hannah Stouffer, Mateu Velasco and Acorn at BLVD Gallery.
• In NYC: Pop Supversion at Ad Hoc Gallery, opening Friday, Parmigianino’s Antea at the Frick and Goodbye Coney Island at the Brooklyn Museum.
• In Denver: Chinese artists at the Robischon Gallery.
• In Chicago: Gordon Matta-Clark at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
• Your moment of yes dancing.

Posted by C-Monster.