The Digest. 03.20.08.

Lelo in Rio de Janeiro. Photo by Lelo**.

• I’m melting.
• Graff of the Day: Kid Chalao with Aia and Satakunta in Finland. More here.
• New Book: Sure, Why Not, featuring the work of Dave Kinsey.
• Rene Gagnon is putting those graffiti cams to good use.
• Update: Jonathan Levine thief nabbed.
• A gallery of Seattle public art. (Love the Tree Bench.)
• Beautiful soap.
• The Guardian reports that the trade in Iraqi antiquities is funding insurgents.
• Iraqimemorial.org: Propose a memorial to commemorate Iraqi civilians casualties. (Via Eyebeam.)
• Not so Inspiring: $200,000 LAPD mural in East L.A. annoys locals with image of a Mexican street vendor with hands held overhead while being interrogated by a cop.
• “Black Guy Asks Nation for Change.” (Via ackackack.)
  
• Photo Essay: The art of Chris Johanson.
• Breaking News from Art Dubai: Saatchi buys stuffed camel in suitcase.
• Fungus Among Us: Antony Gormley exhibit done in by waxcap fungus.
• British artist wearing a top hat prevented from entering the U.S. because of past drug use. The Guardian is—gasp—horrified that such a thing could happen and asks: who else might the U.S. be keeping out with these draconian immigration laws? The answer: Lots of Latin Americans.
• R.I.P. Photojournalist Philip Jones Griffiths.
• The Day in Fakes: FBI breaks up international art forgery ring.
• Robots + Fine Art=Total Weirdness. (Via ackackack.)
• A Q&A with BCAM curator Lynn Zelevansky.
• Tate asks for £6 million to save Rubens commissioned by Charles I in Whitehall.
• When plushies rock out.
• The peace symbol turns 50. (Via ackackack.)
• Whip out that checkbook: Louis Kahn’s Esherick House is gonna hit the auction block.
• Preliminary sketches of the new Berkeley Art Museum by Toyo Ito.
• Hanging stairs. (Via NotCot.)
• New book: Between Heaven and Earth: The Architecture of John Lautner.
• Islamabad, the next Dubai?
• Huge Patagonian glacier may be gone by the end of the century.
• A profile of V.S. Naipaul.
• Your moment of stick figures.