The Digest. 04.17.08.

Bonsai and Two in Sydney. (Photo by baddogwhiskas.)

• Condi Must Go.
• Guggenheim Bilbao announced that it fired its CFO for allegedly embezzling $800,000. More here and here. El País quotes from Roberto Cearsolo Barrenetxea’s resignation letter, submitted last Friday, in which he reportedly admitted committing the crime, saying: “Since 1998, I have been appropriating various amounts of money…for my benefit, I took a total of €486,979.38…”
• A pink structure outside of the Architecture and Design Museum in L.A. is intended to remind viewers of the effects of Hurricane Katrina.
• No public art from Boston’s ICA this year.
• Tequila goes, like, totally artsy.
• Jeremy Deller’s compelling proposal to put a wrecked car from the Iraq War on Trafalgar Sqare’s fourth plinth.
• Tracking the world’s oldest photo.
• Q&A with Nancy Spero: “I was doomed to be an artist.”
• The mobile phone art of Rob Pettit.
• New York as it might have been. (Merci, Yvonne!)
• A 1908 animation by Emile Cohl.
• Catnip eyeballs. (Via ackackack.)
• For when you want your coffee architectural: sugar cubes in the shape of cinder blocks.
• Garbage architecture by Jan Korbes in the Netherlands. (Via NotCot.)
• Windmills outside of Romania’s Village Museum in Bucharest.
• A follow-up to BLDGBLOG’s interesting post about city noise: AEG has a noise awareness campaign in various European cities.
• Photos from Fetish at Galerie du Passage in Paris.
• Bearbricks by Chinese artists. (Via NotCot.)
• Mural of the Day: Herakut in L.A.
• New book: Tag Town by Martha Cooper.
• There is speculation that several art dealers who bought a 20-foot long, multi-panel work by Banksy at auction allegedly want to chop it up into pieces.
• New graff wall in Santa Monica.
• Latrine graffiti in Afghanistan and Kuwait. (Flip through the page numbers below the photo at top to see the photo essay.) (Via ackackack.)
• Shepard Fairey Obama parodies replicate relentlessly.
• Vintage Latin American Music of the Day: Puro teatro.
• Your moment of Grand Theft Auto, Lego edition.