The Digest. 04.08.08.

Sower, by R.L. Croft. (Image courtesy of the artist.)

• Classic photos in Legos—including a recreation of Cartier-Bresson’s Behind the Gare Saint Lazare. (Thank you, TT!)
• Death by blogging. (Merci to Paris bureau chieftess, Mlle. Connasse!)
• In a related story: The Tears of Things tears the Art Blogger panel (in which I participated) a new one: “I call these panelists pikers, small beer, imposters and pretenders…”
• Last week, in my haste to put together a photo essay on the Red Dot fair in NYC, I forgot to include an overheard piece of dialogue that I’d jotted in my notes. Gallerist to potential client: “I know all of the artists—except for the dead one.”
• Cloudscapes.
• An interview with photographer Boogie: “I still have a lot to learn, I’ll let you know when I figure it out.” (Via World’s Best.)
• David Hockney says established artists have a duty to donate works to the public institutions that supported them early on in their careers.
• NY Mag chooses the works of architecture and art that comprise the New York Canon. Graffiti gets nary a mention.
• Supertouch has some good photos from the Murakami opening at the Brooklyn Museum. More here and here.
• Adrees Latif wins photography Pulitzer for his picture of a Japanese cameraman being fatally shot in Myanmar. In related news: Bob Dylan also takes home a Pulitzer.
• The woman who married a wall and other tales from the Berlin Biennial.
• The art of Kristi Kent. (Via AFC.)
• A canoe made from disposable chopsticks.
• Roland Augustine, gallerist and president of the Art Dealers Association of America, on the overheated art market: “Our train is moving far too fast. The train wreck is bound to affect us sooner or later.” Plus: Edward Winkleman chews on the topic of art and recession.
• Visual nuggets: Robert Irwin.
• Daniel Birnbaum to curate ’09 Venice Art Olympics, a.k.a. the Biennale.
• High art hilarity: BCAM makes a guest appearance on The Young and the Restless. Sample dialogue, related to Chris Burden’s Urban Light installation: “He must have had a very large storage unit.”
• Museum directors live mighty well.
• Photo Essay: Masterpieces of San Diego Painting, from the Oceanside Museum of Art.
• Trevor Paglen on Colbert.
• Graff of the Day: Roa in Belgium.
• Photos from El Tono’s show in Monterrey, Mexico. (Via Ekosystem.)
• George Michael wants Banksy to paint his house (Via Ekosystem). In a related story: Michael and his boyfriend Kenny Goss have an exhibit space in Dallas.
• Like, oh my god, The Guardian discovers that street art is mainstream.
• Peat Wollaeger’s Collabomasks.
• ¡Architecture World Smackdown! Martin Filler versus the New York Times on the subject of Atlantic Yards.
• Spaceship-like Assembly Hall in Chicago Urbana-Champaign now on a list of Illinois’s most endangered historic places.
• Specs for OMA’s Bryghusgrunden Project in Copenhagen. Reminds me of a super-sleek update of Safdié’s Habitat ’67.
• Frank Lloyd Wright, interviewed by Mike Wallace on just about everything. Sample quote: “I’ve never cared very much which way the public was going and what was the matter with it.” (Via The New Modernist.)
• Homes that defy gravity. (Via ackackack.)
• The Day in Film: Petition to stop director Uwe Boll from making any more movies nears 100,000 names. Boll says he will retire if the number of signatories hits a million.
• Tom Cruise Purple.
• Your moment of Thor, all heavy metal-like.