The Digest. 02.27.08.

Waiting to meet the band at the Los Tigres del Norte concert, Brooklyn. Photo by C-M.

• The stratastencil. (Via ackackack.)
• Because the Dear Leader Said So: Press escorted everywhere by minders during the NY Philharmonic’s gig in North Korea. (BTW, if you haven’t read Guy Delisle’s Pyongyang, go get it now.)
• Talking Points Memo becomes first blogger to win Polk Award. (Via ackackack.)
• In less lofty blogosphere developments: Man liveblogs his vasectomy.
• No condos here: Charles Bukowski’s L.A. home named a landmark! (Via The Elegant Variation.)
• The wood sculptures of Mike Rea.
• Photos of the Day: No-Tell Motel, Holiday Inn.
• Make it stop: Andy Warhol perfume.
• An interview with Yayoi Kusama. (Via Art Observed.)
• Wearable pixels.
• Even during Black History Month, black artists are MIA from galleries.
• Artists wanted for hot one-inch action in Vancouver. (Via AFC.)
• The Day in Magnanimous Art Dealers: The Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland to get beaucoup pieces from Anthony d’Offay, including works by Sol Lewitt, Joseph Beuys, Gilbert and George, Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst. (There are some names you never hear…)
• Art press release factoid of the week.
• The Prado restores two Goya masterpieces damaged in the 1930s, when they were moved away from Madrid because of fighting related to the Civil War.
• LACMA + MoCA=A real museum.
• Culver City hot, hot, hot.
• Milwaukee Art Museum team wins design award.
• No Dutch Masters For You: Reopening of the Rijksmuseum delayed until 2013. (Via ArtForum.)
• The Thing.
• Nekkid lady gets a Slog reader’s skivvies in a knot.
• An evolution of the graffiti wall at Dean Lane skatepark in Bristol.
• Graff of the Day: The Krah in the U.K.
• Video interview with L.A.’s Retna.
• Pollution turns Chinese river red.
• Your moment of hot chicks with douchebags. (Via LA Taco.)