The Digest. 04.22.08.

Rochambeau, by Ryan McLennan in From Fur to Bone at Kinsey/Desforges, through May 10th. (Photo by Vidalia.)

• All of those important-looking and allegedly objective military analysts you see on cable news? Puppets of the Pentagon.
• Bacteria artist Steve Kurtz cleared of all charges. (Via Art to Go.)
• Poo as art, Seattle edition. (See #9.)
• In related news: Yale art school dean wants to ban a work by a student in which she claims to have induced miscarriages. Catching a whiff of the free publicity, I imagine that some enterprising shark art dealer will soon be representing her.
• Koons sculptures to decorate the Met’s roof. Let’s hope that no socialites with sharp bracelets will be traveling anywhere in the vicinity of these fine works. More here.
• Virtual art in London tube stations.
• New Book: The Museum of Bad Art: Masterworks. (Via Coudal.)
• Attendance slips at Art Cologne.
• Can you tell an art fair attendee from a ComicCon attendee? Take AFC’s handy quiz and find out!
• Paris Bureau Chieftess Yvonne Conasse has been web surfing her little heart out ever since her bar privileges at the Ritz were suspended and she sent us enough links yesterday to produce a veritable mini digest:
• First and foremost, she forwards us this video of a Cadbury Crème Egg Crusher, a piece that will surely give Tim Hawkinson a run for his money.
• Second, she sends over a couple of ComicCon reports that includes a story about how nobody seems to be reading Inconegro, a critically-acclaimed comic about an African-American journalist, and an item on Power Girl, who will be getting her own comic book series, co-starring her boobs.
• Third, she discovered a great posting on subway advertising mash-ups.
• And, last, but not least, she also forwarded us this link, about the controversy unleashed by a high school student’s art project in Independence, Missouri. Missouri High School Student: 1. Yale Art School: 0.
• From the Department of WTF??? L.A. trying to regulate taco trucks out of business.
• Shipping containers as playground equipment.
• The Day in Museo Blog Artspeak, courtesy of SFMOMA.
• Charlie Rose, as if produced by Samuel Beckett. (Via VSL.)
• Video about Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar’s I Want You to Want Me from the Design & the Elastic Mind show at MoMA. (Via Eyebeam.)
• Kinda looks like a strip mine to me: Where BCAM was born.
• Coming to London’s V&A this fall: An exhibit about Cold War-era design.
• Pope-ylactics.
• The Guardian on the new Oslo Opera House by Snøhetta: “Even if opera is not your thing, and you have little interest in the finer points of auditorium acoustics, this is an unmissable building, and immense fun to engage with.”
• Abandoned hotels in the Egyptian Sinai.
• Portable cardboard walls.
• Graff of the Day: Kurz in Italy.
• Killer Photo Set: The Georgetown graffiti wall in Seattle.
• Greetings from the Occupation, Wish You Were Here!
• Nick Walker sells big at Black Cat in London.
• New Book & Video: We Come At Night.
• Your moment of V.D., courtesy of Mlle. Conasse.