The Digest. 04.25.08.

Insa in London. (Photo by invisiblemadevisible.)

• Porno soundtracks. (Via Coudal.)
• The photography of Albert Kahn.
• Look for piles of ice blocks around L.A. this weekend.
• The WSJ wants to know what they’re teachin’ those art knuckleheads at Yale in the wake of an incident in which a student is claiming miscarriages as art (via AJ). The Guardian, in the meantime, puts the whole mess in the context of other people who have hurt their bodies for publicity art.
• Biennial curator Shamim Momin loves the American Museum of Natural History.
• Peter Schjeldahl wins art writing prize.
• The Ladies of ComicCon. (Via ackackack.)
• Leopold Museum in Vienna accused of holding Nazi art.
• The Economist ain’t diggin’ Murakami. (Via AO.)
• The Daily Show deconstructs McCain’s many hypocrisies.
• Thomas Eakins Gross Clinic to stay in Philly.
• From the Department of Dear-God-Help-Us: Courbet’s Origin of the World has spawned, um, imitators.
• Rauschenberg, the man who erased a De Kooning and sold it (update/correction: to an institution, not on the open market), sues a Florida artist for selling his trash.
• Reconsidering the transition to abstract expressionism in N.Y. art.
• Get Nekkid: The Christiania Arts Foundation’s is looking for a few good nudes (classical nudes, that is) for its annual contest.
• “Carne Asada is not a crime.”
• Audio of an interview with Richard Rodgers re. his show at the Design Museum in London.
• Getting Rid of Corporate Vandals: What it’s like to walk around São Paulo, a city that has banned all outdoor advertising. (Via Juxtapoz.)
• Famous guy goes street, nobody cares: Luc Tuymans painted a mural in Antwerp (with protective scaffolding!!?!?!) and 96% of passersby didn’t give it so much as a glance. Could it be because their brains are full of advertising? (Via MAN.)
• Graff of the Day: Pixel Pancho and Truly Design in Valencia, Spain.
• Meeting of Styles to hit Europe next month.
• Pixelated water in NYC.
• Your moment of Keith Richards.