The Digest. 04.03.08.

Raspberry fingers. (Photo courtesy of Agent Lover.)

• Looking Around says museum directors can curb the onslaught of coma-inducing artspeak by banning five words. An update here. And more on the phenomenon here.
• The photographs of Magnum shooter Dennis Stock. I think this is my favorite. (Via ackackack.)
• The Brooklyn Museum to “honor” Bruce Ratner, the developer who is making NYC unaffordable to average joes (and building fugly-ass malls). This comes a little more than a week after the Museum decided to donate a portion of its proceeds from Murakami’s Louis Vuitton boutique sales to the Federal Enforcement Homeland Security Foundation. (Because what we really need is more surveillance.) I’m just waiting for someone to tell me that they’ve hired Rudy Giuliani as a curator.
• What the dead lady said: Boston-ites are debating whether the planned Renzo Piano extension to the Gardner Museum will be true to Isabella Stewart Gardner’s wishes.
• Whitney Biennial review of the day: “Assemblage was everywhere, and I can’t tell you if it was interesting.”
• The President of Fine Art Capital predicts a sharp downturn in the art industrial average. In the same story, Portfolio also reports that MoMA bought nine pieces by Jarbas Lopes at Volta.
• The true face of Leonardo Da Vinci?
• Life Before Death: The before-and-after death portraits of Walter Schels. (Via BoingBoing.)
• Chris Ware animates This American Life.
• In keeping with yesterday’s special report about makin’ art that will last longer than five minutes: Insects find art delicious.
• That sublime point where the Rolling Stones and Rice Krispies intersect.
• Brno municipal authorities will finally begin to work on finding an outfit to repair Mies’ Tugendhat House—which is in desperate need of restoration.
• R.I.P. modernist architect Ralph Rapson.
• Nikola Basic’s sea organ, in Croatia. (Via NotCot.)
• Zaha Hadid’s new skyscraper design for Dubai.
• What it all means: The Guardian analyzes the future of street art in the wake of the Skullphone billboard non-hijacking in L.A.
• A Q&A with stencil pioneer Blek le Rat: “This life is fucking important so do not waste yours on bullshit.”
• There’s a street art film festival this weekend in New Brunswick, N.J. (Via Ekosystem.)
• Knitted street art: some historical context.
• Your moment of creatively translated Bollywood films.