The Digest. 04.16.08.

Soon Just Memories 2 by Jim Harker in Toys! at Gallery 1988 in L.A., through April 25th. (Photo by Vidalia.)

• Amazing photo essay: A gallery of Olan Mills family portraits (via WBE). And after you’re done with that, check this out.
• New York ComicCon starts tomorrow: Stan Lee will get a legends award. Plus: a story about who owns the characters in comics.
• BLDGBLOG has an interesting post about the sounds of cities.
• Book painting by Mike Stilkey.
• Hot crap on a nugget! James Frey—of I-made-up-most-of-my- memoir-and-got-a-new-one-torn-on-Oprah fame—is part owner of a new NYC gallery.
• Old Yosemite slides. (Via Coudal.)
• The Daily Show on how U.S. gummint leaders worked out, to the last detail, torture interrogation techniques for high-value targets.
• A report on the Glasgow International art show, which will soon likely morph into a biennial.
• Art Cologne starts today.
• Tate exhibits multi-million dollar painting—The Sleep of Arthur in Avalon by Edward Burne-Jones—that it could have bought years ago for £1,000.
• Photos from Camilo Cruz’s show at the Constant Gallery in L.A.
• Photo Essay: The most expensive restoration of stained glass in the U.S., now underway at St. Thomas in NYC.
• Sotheby’s stock needs Viagra.
• The NYT’s blog The Moment discovers the great big Internets by making the following sweeping declaration: “The Web is not just for pornography anymore.” Thank god they cleared that up or I’d be spending the morning watching free outtakes of Butt Bangers VIII…
• The frying pan sculpture at the Culinary Institute of America in San Antonio.
• Photo Essay: The work of Magnum photographer Burt Glinn, who passed away last week. (Dear Slate Online Producers: Any chance you could get rid of the flashing ads for the purpose of photo essays? The bouncing M&Ms make it damn near impossible to appreciate Glinn’s austere images…)
• When commercials imitate cheap horror movies. (The jingle’s catchy though…) (Via NotCot.)
• In related news: Bento lunches as album covers.
• Graff of the Day: Raisin in Nantes, France.
• Graffiti Research Lab in Time.
• “The Audacity of Pope.”
• Your moment of Pee and Poo.