The Digest. 05.28.08.

Detail of a work by Rory Donaldson at Edward Winkleman Gallery, in NYC, through May 31st. (Photo by C-M.)

• Attention Art Handlers: You too can be a part of a hot art handlers calendar. (Brown people, please apply, or this is gonna be pasty.) In an unrelated call: animal art sought for O.C. Contemporary Arts Center exhibit.
• Milan Mayor wants to cancel film director Peter Greenaway’s Last Supper light show for fear that it may damage Da Vinci’s fragile painting. (A light show? For reals? Sounds totally Vegas.)
• The Brooklyn Museum has curated Hiroshige prints for the latest Add-Art ad blocker. See what the results look like here.
• The Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid gives the setting where Picasso’s Guernica hangs a freshening up.
• 11 Hot Art Cities, according to Forbes. (Via AO.)
• Good luck getting those dealers and auction houses to share the spoils: A group of artists in Britain want royalties off of sold works until 70 years after their death. (Via A.J.)
• Leonard Lauder steps down as Whitney chairman.
• Building Hong Kong’s art scene: Gagosian, Sundaram Tagore and Tang Contemporary.
• Beautiful photos of bankrupt offices.
• In light of the vandalism on Stonehenge: Nigel Tufnel and Eddie Izzard riff on Stone ‘enge.
• Seriously trippy: Flying man-made jellyfish.
• Paul Goldberger reviews Beijing’s Olympic Green: “In both conception and execution, the best of Beijing’s Olympic architecture is unimpeachably brilliant. But the development also exemplifies traits—the reckless embrace of the fashionable and the global, the authoritarian planning heedless of human cost—that are elsewhere denaturing, even destroying, the fabric of the city.”
• Philip Johnson house in Connecticut may be destroyed to make way for a McMansion if no one steps up to buy it. (Via architecture.mnp.)
• Portable stadiums. An idea the Chicago Trib says is bogus.
• Bomb It now available on DVD.
• Graff of the Day: Keos in Germany.
• A Q&A with painter Ryan McLennan.
• A Flickr set of lasered skate decks, by artists such as Fafi, Mike Giant and Estevan Oriol. (Via Juxtapoz.)
• Business in the front, party in the back: The Gunn Furniture Dream Desk, courtesy of Mlle. Connasse.
• Your moment of 1960s Mexican sci-fi ads for chocolate milk. (Via Closet Romantic.)