The Digest. 06.09.08.

Self-portrait on motorcycle helmet. (Photo by C-M.)

• Memo to Network Television News Executives: Get a monkey.
• L.A. as Oblivion: Photos by David Maisel. (Via L.A. Taco.)
• The Day in Art Merch: Marc Jacobs as Andy Warhol on the cover of Interview on a T-shirt (got that?) and the Barry McGee art bicycle.
• Anaba has a funny take on the wall text at the latest MassMoCA offering.
• Museum guard gouges painting by Vija Celmins at Carnegie Museum of Art. Even better: the painting was a loaner (via AJ).
• Enough with the poor and dispossessed: the Pope is looking for rich people to pay for new religious art and architectural works. (Via AJ.)
• The head of a Roman sculpture of Hadrian at the British Museum has been attached to the wrong body since the 19^th century.
• Photo Essay: The Final Salute, a book by Jim Sheeler, about fallen military personnel.
• The Street Art Industrial Average is High: A construction wall once painted by Faile in Berlin is now up for auction for €45,000. (Via Skye.)
• Graff of the Day: Jpee, OMG, Jeloe, P. Sexxy, PKFam.
• The Wii spray can. (Via WBE.)
• The NYT Magazine this past Sunday was devoted to architecture, and included an interesting Q&A with former Bogotá mayor Enrique Peñalosa about why waterfronts should not be private and a story about what architecture can do for refugee camps.
• The reviews are in on Libeskind’s new Jewish Museum in S.F.
• A garage gets made into a modern home by two UPenn architecture grads in Philly. (Via CoolBloom.)
• The New Modernist has interesting posts about architecture in Beijing in one and two parts.
• Some killer brick work on a contemporary Buenos Aires house.
• Renzo Piano’s NY Times building: Architecture as jungle gym.
• A clitoral mass of undulating concrete: the Dubai opera house by Zaha Hadid.
• Awesome: Video of Australian comedians getting Osama Bin Laden into the APEC summit in a fake Canadian motorcade. (Via Steve Lambert.)
• Your moment of O’Reilly, super special rave remix edition.