The Digest. 04.09.08.

Gore-B and Armer. James Bridge. Another view here. See it large. Photo by RFullerRD.

• Adam Parker Smith’s zombie art puppets kick serious ass. (Takes a moment to load. Be patient.)
• Fighting over Mark Rothko’s remains.
• The artist behind the iconic running immigrants sign. (Via Unbeige.)
• Miami gallerist Kevin Bruk on the sinking art industrial average: “All these Wall Street people have turned the nature of collecting art into a practice that is identical to how they collect stock. It’s pump and dump. Connoisseurship is dead.”
• Photo Essay: The panoramas of Sze Tsung Leong.
• Selling the Estella Collection: the path that art takes from museum show to auction house grows ever shorter. More here.
• The Dia Foundation and the state of Utah are working on creating a buffer zone around Spiral Jetty.
• In related news: The Dia is also trying to raise more than a million bucks to protect Walter de Maria’s Lightning Field in New Mexico.
• Damien Hirst cow causes problems in Tokyo.
• Welcome to Brooklyn: I’m taking your Murakami placemat and that’s that. Now getouttaheah.
• At the National Gallery of Victoria in Australia: debating whether a Van Gogh is a Van Gogh or someone else.
• Edvard Munch’s The Scream has been scratched and water damaged beyond repair.
• Audio Slideshow: The work of Antonio López García, now at Boston’s MFA.
• A new book reports that U.S. efforts to safeguard Iraq’s antiquities were belated, uncoordinated and fruitless. Kinda like the rest of the mission.
• Museum of the American Cocktail moving back to New Orleans!
• The Day in Fossil Fuel consumption: A map of CO2 emissions in the United States and a slideshow of the worst gas-guzzling cars.
• Tour Richard Meier’s model warehouse in Queens.
• Will it have a drive-thru? Zaha Hadid to design Guggenheim- Hermitage franchise in Vilnius, Lithuania.
• Priapism: an abnormal often painful persistent erection of the penis.
• A house by Voorsanger Architects in Charlottesville, Va.
• Book: The Architecture of the Image: Existential Space in Cinema.
• Graff of the Day: RATe in NYC.
• Photo Kings: Chronicling NYC’s last four years of subway graffiti before the buff.
• An ode to random scrawl.
• New Banksy book: Home Sweet Home. (Via NotCot.)
• Giving new meaning to the idea of a wood-paneled car.
• Your moment of fart noises.