The Digest. 05.30.08.

Eli Baxter at the The Contemporary Museum Biennial of Hawaii Artists in Honolulu, through August 17. (Image courtesy of Baxter.)

Hey Kids: As we enter the summer I’m gonna cut back on Digest-ing. Starting next week, it’s Monday through Thursday only, leaving Friday open for very important posts about goodies like chocolate Boteros. xox, C.

• The hat-twirling GIF. (Via HV.)
• Preserving art that isn’t built to last. (Via AJ.)
• Jake and Dinos Chapman vandalize Hitler paintings and are now trying to sell them (via AJ). The Guardian has an image of one of the works here. They also ask: Is this all “a bit silly?” The answer: yes.
• Rich Russians buying art at the Moscow World Fine Art Fair. Plus: The Times looks at those Russian millionaires and billionaires that Western millionaires and billionaires are being all condescending about.
• Contemporary art prices are trending downward says curator Todd Levin.
• The Woodstock Museum. Groovy fact: Richard Lacayo went to Woodstock. Rock on!!
• Jeff Wall discusses five of his pics and how they came about (via AFC). That staged battle scene kinda reminds me in its ethos to those melodramatic, staged battle scenes that Meissonier liked to paint in the 19^th century.
• Artist killed during peace pilgrimage.
• A profile of street artiste and Fulbright scholar Steve Powers, aka ESPO, in the New York Times. See the photo essay.
• Tobias Wolff’s short story Bullet in the Brain, about an art critic taking some hot lead to the head.
• A Portrait of Silvia Elena, a collaborative installation by Swoon and Tennessee Jane Watson, at the Honey Space in NYC. The piece honors one of the countless women killed in the Mexican border town of Juárez, whose murders have gone largely uninvestigated and unsolved.
• “Street art is gone…but I’m still here.”
• Book: Lost: Graffiti in the City of Angels, a compilation of ten years worth of graffiti photography in L.A.
• Enter the drawing to win a Skewville crate, covered in real, 100% authentic New York City grime!
• Our President is a douche. The Daily Show‘s take here.
• Container-like, but modern: The Nomadhome by Gerold Peham.
• Keeping the footprint small: The Marfa 10 x 10 Lightbox House, which takes up only 320 square feet of land. (Via NotCot.)
• Little People. (Thanks again, TT!)
• Your moment of procrastination. (Thanks again, TT.)