The Digest. 07.15.08.

The Day in Land Art: Detail of a playa painting by Andres Amador. (Via Ekosystem.)

• Not a Goya.
• Looks good on a turntable: The work of Jesse Paul Miller.
• A video of Rauschenberg talking about erasing the De Kooning: “I spent a month erasing that little drawing.”
• Steal this work: Thefts drive up prices of canvases by Edvard Munch.
• Art Blog Sentence of the Day: “It is a vice of second-rate art to come with its own eloquent explanation attached.”
• The Telegraph’s Richard Dorment on Richard Prince: “…a clever, second-generation follower of the greatest Pop artist of all.”
• Beer as art.
• Trippy Radiohead video that used a 3-D scanning system to capture images.
• An interesting profile of Tom14 in Barcelona, that addresses issues of gentrification in the city. (Via Ekosystem.)
• NYC councilman Peter Vallone seeing red over graffiti supply store Alphabeta in Brooklyn. No word yet on whether he’s gonna try to shut down Home Depot.
• Clan du Néon, turning out the lights on advertising in Paris.
• A Richard Neutra building in Newport Beach, Calif. has been spared the wrecking ball. For now.
• The jury that evaluated Zaha Hadid’s design for the London Olympics seriously overbudget aquatic center warned about its cost and the functionality of its design when making its recommendation to Olympics organizers, who overlooked these little details because they liked all the pretty lines.
• Looks cool: The Swoosh Pavilion at the Architectural Association in London.
• A Q&A with Tadao Ando on his design of Tokyo’s Shibuya Station.
• Call for Entries: Urban planners wanted to design the 21^st Century Street.
• UNESCO threatens to put Lascaux caves on the list of endangered sites of universal importance, giving the French government six months to report on its efforts to save the pre-historic images (via A.J.). Related: A list of spots added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage sites.
• “May your penis hurt when you make love.” (Via A.J.)
• Save Totoro’s forest. (Via NotCot.)
• Your moment of Andy Warhol on Jasper Johns.