The Digest. 07.23.08.

From the C-Monster Family Album: My uncle shows a cousin the delicate art of balance.

• The Electrical Walks of Christina Kubisch. (Be sure to give the audio file a listen. It’s trippy.)
• Anish Kapoor to get a solo at the Royal Academy in London next year. The Academy is also planning a revamp of its Burlington Gardens by architect David Chipperfield.
• Photographer Pieter Hugo discusses his deep suspicion of photography, as well as how his series, the Hyena Men, came together. See images here.
• Millionaires: Mortgage that pricey art collection for extra cash. (Via A.J.)
• Artist seeks patron.
• ¡Artworld Smackdown! AFC vs. the Guardian’s Jonathan Jones.
• The Day in Bacterial Cleansing: A Milan scientist has employed a voracious bacterium called Desulfovibrio vulgaris vulgaris in art conservation. The little buggers apparently love to feast on the black crust that forms on stone statues and buildings.
• *fab* has a few preview pix from Manifesta 7, in Trentino, Italy, on her Flickr feed.
• Shigeru Ban to design a new 30,000 square foot building for the Aspen Art Museum.
• Parts one, two and three of a four-part interview with Gary Panter, now up on VBS.tv.
• Paper Magazine discovers Bushwick. And their version doesn’t seem to include any brown people.
• Street art of the Day: JR in Cartagena, Spain.
• It’s all about graffiti merch: The Smart Cap Vending Machine.
• Fast Forward: The Gehry Pavilion, at London’s Serpentine Gallery, assembled in seven minutes.
• An interesting hotel at the end of the world: Remota, by German del Sol, in Chilean Patagonia.
• 10 amazing ghost towns. And their artistic parallels.
• The obligatory pre-Olympics Beijing’s-development-is-killing-the old-part-of-the-city story.
• Legal Update: Lesbians can still be lesbians, according to Greek court.
• Our economy’s in the pooper because Wall Street got “drunk,” reports our fearless President. More like high on cocaine.
• Your moment of I’ve Never Been to Me. (Thank you, Mlle. Connasse.)