The Digest. 07.09.08.

Detail of Superman and Superdog in Jail, 1963, by Peter Saul, at the Orange County Museum of Art, through September 21st. Read the review in the L.A. Times. (FYI: The show isn’t all that. But Saul’s pieces from the early ’60s are definitely worth checking out.) (Photo by C-M.)

• Let Them Eat Foam: G-8 leaders suck down 18-courses as they discuss world food crisis.
• Totally rad tech-web installation art of the day: Pulse, by Markus Kison. Don’t skip the video. It’s trippy as hell.
• ¡Art Industry Smackdown! The S.F. Chronicle’s Kenneth Baker vs. Dale Chihuly at the De Young.
• The Tate Liverpool is terribly worried that under-18s might get irreversibly corrupted by the sight of Klimt’s nudes.
• The Denver Post follows up on the Denver Art Museum’s eyebrow-raising acquisition dealings. Follow-ups to MAN’s original posts here and here.
• This looks cool: LACMA acquires collection of rare Pacific Island art.
• London’s National Gallery unveils 18 recently-bequeathed masterpieces by the likes of Monet, Degas and Gaugin.
• Tracey Emin sculpture goes missing and is then mysteriously returned. (Via A.O.)
• For those with $$$ in their eyes: A London auctions round-up.
• Reason No. 1,787 not to attack Iran: Their art market is booming. (Via A.J.)
• Marshall Astor is in Thailand working on a show and eating some spectacular-looking street food.
• Graff of the Day: Sego in Mexico.
• Augor and Revok redo a Dark Knight billboard in L.A. (Frackin’ awesome.) Sorta related: Augor’s doing T-shirts.
• Mural as Audubon Guide: Elkpen in L.A. paints the birds of Hollywood.
• A wonderful quote on Archidose about how to understand the land, which leads me to wonder how many architects actually spend any time in nature.
• Photo Essay: Prefab houses going up at MoMA. Plus: Images of Frank Gehry’s pavilion at the Serpentine in London.
• Sleuths’ claim that they’ve discovered 29 Frank Lloyd Wright houses in Illinois is heavily disputed.
• This November, the focus of the Chicago Humanities Festival will be architecture.
• Architecture that looks like papel picado: Technicolor Bloom by Brennan Buck.
• Your moment of techno-kitties.