The Digest. 06.23.08.

Chihuahua With Cheeseburgers by William Hundley. See a full set of Hundley’s cheeseburger photos. (Photo courtesy of albino_octopus.)

• Not a story about art writers: Art boobs. (Via AFC.)
• A workshop on how to get illegal advertising removed from your neighborhood. Also: The City of L.A. wants to crack down on murals, but seems pretty happy to do absolutely nothing about illegal advertising. Plus: Transforming crap-ass video ads into stained glass.
• Christie’s gets into the gallery business in London, with a new spot coming soon in N.Y.
• Guggenheim in Guadalajara ain’t gonna fly, reportedly because the Krens-master refused to scale down costs. In not-really related museum-building news: Herzog & de Meuron to design a modern art museum in Calcutta and Morphosis to design the new OCMA in Costa Mesa, Calif. (Via architecture.mnp.)
• LACMA seems to have a history of sticky relationships with its donors.
• The New Republic on nihilism in today’s art, as illustrated by Hirst, Koons and Murakami, and the institutions that aid and abet them: “What there is to discuss is not visual experiences so much as visual stunts, which are frequently mind-boggling in their size and complexity.” Plus: “At the Guggenheim, the staff no longer curates exhibitions. They simply invite an artist to come in and rape the place.” (Via A.J.)
• In a related story: The Viktor & Rolf show at London’s Barbican is one big ad, says the Guardian: “…the curation of the show is so adoring, so breathlessly admiring, it might as well have been done by a Vogue junior stylist…”
• Newsgrist runs a factcheck on comments by Frank Stella in The Art Newspaper, on the subject of orphan works. (Via AFC.)
• A trailer from Herb and Dorothy, a documentary about the Vogels, a librarian and postal clerk who amassed one of the most significant collections of modern art in the U.S. (Via WaPo.)
• Photos: Weegee’s Manhattan.
• New York Water Taxi now offering tours of Olafur Eliasson’s Waterfalls.
• Update: chashama is having a pirate party pig roast benefit tonight in NYC, weather permitting.
  
• “Shepard Fairey’s image problem.” (Via Eyebeam.)
• Photos: Skullphone at the Riverside Museum of Art.
• Is the Splasher back?
• Architecture and authoritarianism. In related news: Paul Goldberger writes about architecture in Beijing.
• Midwest Flood News: Frank Lloyd Wright house hit in Charles City, Ia.
• The NYT covers the fate of Paul Rudolph’s Riverview High School in Sarasota. See my pix here.
• Shelters for threatened species made of recycled materials.
• The Lego Death Star. (Via NotCot.)
• Your moment of Jim Carrey as Vanilla Ice.