The Digest. 05.05.08.

Happy Cinco de Mayo! May your margaritas be frozen and your nachos spicy. (The photo is of a relative who is still trying to live this down.)

• A reef made of NYC subway cars. (Via BldgBlog.)
• Is Shepard Fairey going blind?
• “No Gagosian, No Party.”
• Graff of the Day: Shaka and Nosbe of the PPA Crew in Paris.
• A Flickr set on the Cans Festival in London (via Ekosystem). More at Supertouch.
• Profile of Speerstra, a graffiti-focused gallery in Holland.
• Concrete Alchemy, a traveling show of graffiti art: NYC, N.J., Philly, D.C. and National Harbor, Md. Kicks off May 16th in N.Y.
• A nice story in the S.F. Chronicle about the Fecal Face gallery.
• The work of Zamak. (Via ackackack.)
• A round-up of weird (useless) shit you can buy. Including a Space Invader cutting board. (Not by the street artist.)
• Mogul wants to put Blade Runner-style billboards on L.A. buildings using LEDs. Dude: can’t you showcase some art on there instead? Does the world really need more advertising?
• Sublime artist-with-art photo of the day: Damien Hirst and his skull.
• In a related story: skulls in art, hot, hot, hot.
• More Obama art merch for sale. (Via The Moment.)
• The NYT has a list of the very expensive objets d’art that are coming up for auction in the next two weeks: Francis Bacon for $25 to $35 million, anyone? (More on Bacon’s sky-high prices here.) Plus: a record-selling Rothko painting, sold at Sotheby’s last year, is going to Qatar.
• SITE Santa Fe Albright-Knox director Louis Grachos on sculptor Tom Sachs: “Tom straddles that line somewhere between humor, good taste and bad taste.”
• A profile of Alana Heiss, founder of P.S. 1, who is retiring this year. (Not voluntarily.)
• The stained glass windows of Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke.
• All 120 Crayola crayon names. (Via ackackack.)
• How the Denver Museum acquired Thomas Eakins’ Cowboy Singing: enlist a billionaire to help pay the tab.
• Michael Heizer’s earthworks at the Menil in Houston.
• Clementine Gallery in NYC is closing.
• The New York Photo Festival.
• Frozen Caribbean seawater as art. Sounds sustainable.
• The work of Arne Quinze.
• NY Art Beat: new website for NYC art events.
• Bug sex with Isabella Rossellini. I love how totally weird she’s willing to be.
• Gehry’s Atlantic Yards project in NYC dying a little piece at a time.
• Photo Essay: Libeskind’s Jewish Museum in S.F.
• Another view of the Bird’s Nest in Beijing.
• A Q&A with literary blogger Mark Sarvas, of The Elegant Variation.
• Craig Ferguson’s speech at the White House Correspondents Dinner. The Rumsfeld video at Minute 15 is sublime.
• Your moment of trapped-in-an-elevator, courtesy of Mlle. Connasse.