The Digest. 03.24.08.

Ramones Fan Club, Madrid. Photo by Royal Antidote.

• R.I.P. Cachao, Cuban bass virtuoso. For goose bumps, click here. (If you follow only one link today, this should be it.)
• The NYT Magazine’s Art Issue: To sum it up, it’s less about art than various art industry VIPs, including benefactor Miuccia Prada, and, my favorite: Houston-based Latin American arts curator Mari Carmen Ramírez. (Go, Latinas with big hair!) Also, it appears that NYC’s art handlers are suffering from severe melanin shortages. I will soon start a fund drive to help them. The poor dears…
• Lookin’ Good for Jesus: Get Tight With Christ. (Thanks, TT.)
• In related news: A gallery of Last Supper remixes.
• Gaugin: “The Jeff Koons of his day.” Plus: a neat-o graphic of Arii Matamoe.
• From the Department of Premature Ejaculation: The WSJ reports that collectors are betting that Cuba will be the next hot art hub.
• Casting call: Artists wanted for The Great Art Race, an artist reality show. Must be hot.
• Wine labels for the non-oenophile. (Via ackackack.)
• Whitney Biennial Review of the Day #1, courtesy of Peter Schjeldahl: “If it were a sound, it would be the muttering of a cast awaiting the inexplicably delayed rise of a curtain.”
• Whitney Biennial Review of the Day #2, courtesy of Kenneth Baker: “Critics go to the Biennial hoping that its curators, with the luxury and onus of making innumerable studio visits that few journalists can schedule, will have made some startling discoveries. But one’s list of memorable things in a Biennial never gets very long.”
• Whitney Biennial Coverage of the Day: Co-Curator Henrietta Huldisch left tongue-tied when asked to explain the difference between the Neighborhood Public Radio piece at the Biennial, and plain old pirate radio.
• A profile of Miami MoCA’s Bonnie Clearwater.
• Bloomberg reports that Brooklyn is hot, hot, hot. Which assures that it will soon be not, not, not.
• Iraqi painter Karim Alwali.
• Research director at Baghdad Museum describes what it was like to see the looting: “Something that bleeded my heart immediately.”
• Get ready for Armory Mindfuck: “This Whitney Biennial in particular is a very striking show, but it’s also very limited. They have 81 artists, whereas we have 2,000.” See the racing schedule. (Also, I just have to ask: WHYYYY?)
• Call for submissions: The Deitch Art Parade 2008.
• Even Autocratic Regimes Run Late: China’s National Museum expansion begins a year behind deadline.
• Photo Essay: MoMA’s Color Chart.
• Aqua Colbert.
• Graff of the Day: Dets, Ghost and Ewok.
• The Ones We Love. (Via Fecal Face.)
• The art of Kuntjil Cooper and Tjayanka Woods, with some incisive comments about whitefella drinking habits.
• Hacking the Beijing Olympics logo.
• Don’t forget to vote for the hot Chilean on Dancing with the Stars.
• New book: Renzo Piano Museums.
• In related news: There’s a downloadable White Paper called The Museum Brand Footprint: The Role of Architecture in Defining a Museum’s Image. (Via Daily Dose.)
• Architecture videos on YouTube, as compiled by architecture.MNP.
• Coverage of the undulating Aqua tower by Jeanne Gang currently under construction in Chicago (includes video and photos).
• The Koolhaas House and the housekeeper who takes care of it all.
• Orquideorama by Plan B Arquitectos, in Medellín. (Via NotCot.)
• 3555 Hayden by Eric Owen Moss Architects, in Culver City.
• Sunset on Mars. (Via ackackack. Thanks for the shout-out, Judson!)
• The full list of writers scheduled to appear at the L.A. Times bookfest late next month. (Via Elegant Variation.)
• Knitted internal organs.
• A Day Late: Your moment of Easter Bunnies.