The Digest. 08.27.08.

Detail of El Retaule de l’amor, 1910, by Julio Romero de Torres at the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya in Barcelona. (Photo by C-M.)

• How to draw anything. (Via Kottke.)
• “Visit swinging London where we make groovy shock art.”
• The Day in Misplaced Art: A missing Léger at Wellesley may have gone out with the trash.
• David Byrne’s bike racks will ultimately be sold through Pace/MacGill. Which means now would be the time to jack them.
• Spend the Night at the Guggenheim: The museum to become a satellite branch of the Waldorf Astoria.
• Jonathan Jones wants the Tate Britain and the Tate Modern to mix up their art a bit.
• Rijksmuseum to help Damien Hirst with his marketing.
• Jorge Pardo gives LACMA’s pre-Columbian galleries a serious makeover. The new display cases look super cool. But, “the trouble is that the pre- Columbian art gets lost in the décor,” reports the NY Times.
• You, as constructivist propaganda. (Via ackackack.)
• Wallace and Gromit, super models. (Via NotCot.)
• Street sculpture miniaturized: The work of Slinkachu. More here.
• I have no idea what the hell the Guardian is talking about: The writer in this story describes a “reverence” for preserving graffiti in NYC and offers as his examples two private murals discovered while repurposing old SoHo buildings into luxury condos. One of the murals, by Keith Haring, will be used to add an extra $100,000 to the apartment’s sale price. All of this in a city that continues to demand that building owners buff graffiti from their walls or face fines.
• And speaking of reverence for graffiti. Chipotle, purveyor of crap-ass burritos, has now jumped on the band wagon.
• Garden & Gun magazine. (Via PDN Pulse.)
• Santiago Calatrava’s Venice bridge will not be receiving an opening party.
• Preserving Modernism in New Orleans. Plus: more on the planned razing of Paul Rudolph’s Riverview High School in Sarasota (via architecture.mnp). My photos of the school here.
• Liking this one: A minimalist summer home—in terms of footprint and design—by architects Todd Saunders and Tommie Wilhelmsen in Norway.
• The architectural renderings for a new UFO museum in Roswell. For reals. (Via Unbeige.)
• It’s come to this: How to build a Modernist birdhouse. (Via Coudal.)
• Your moment of monkey.

Posted by C-Monster.