The Digest. 08.26.08.

Judith Supine in New York. (Photo by Jake Dobkin.)

• Animal has an interview with one of the Free Tibet activists recently arrested in and deported from China.
• Cooler than David Byrne’s Playing the Building: Artist David van Tieghem playing New York City.
• The joy of vinyl.
• Bigger than a hurtling SUV, taller than a towering McMansion: Behemoth public art, courtesy of Arup and Anish Kapoor.
• Only in the Dead-Tree Edition: An insightful Q&A with video artist Kalup Linzy can be found in the summer issue of Bomb.
• The Devi Art Foundation, a museum of contemporary art, is set to open in New Delhi this Saturday.
• Liu Bolin’s Camouflage series. (Via NotCot.)
• Catching Up: R.I.P. John Russell, art critic and Manny Farber, film critic.
• The music of chairs.
• The Art Industrial Average is down. A Sotheby’s auction in Melbourne sold just 49 percent of its total works. (Via A.J.)
• Better than Performance Art: Kottke reports that the doc, Hands on a Hardbody, can now be watched on Google Video.
• The New York Times has a link blog. It’s no C-Monster. (Via Fimoculous.)
• Whose is bigger? Comparing podium design at the conventions.
• Graff Truck of the Day: Bue, Uri and Resto in Barcelona.
• Wired wants photos of your geek tattoos.
• JetBlue’s new JFK food court. And not a moment too soon, because I don’t think I coulda handled another meal at “Mex and the City.”
• A video profile of Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza and the buildings he designed for the architecture school in Porto.
• L.A. Star Maps, Architecture Edition.
• Your moment of Muppet death metal.

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