The Digest. 09.30.08.

Pizza not Polaroids is poison to pepper. (Photo by Robyn Von Swank. Image courtesy of the one and only Agent Lover!)

Update: Sorry folks. I’m a burnout. Today is Sept. 30th, not the 29th. And the year is 2008, not 2009. (Boy, am I out of it.)  Anyhow, I’ve corrected the header above. Thanks for your patience with my wicked, wicked ways. xox, C.

• Best science images of 2008. I’m lovin’ the squid suckers. (Via NotCot.)
• Corrupt the kiddies: A book of monochromatic images for babies by artists such as Damien Hirst, Takashi Murakami and Julian Opie. (Via A.O.)
• And because the world needs more Damien Hirst: the ah-tist is set to open two London shops.
• The highest paid museum directors. Sort of related: The Contemporary Art Museum in Honolulu cuts budgets and lays of 25.
• A stolen Renoir is found after 33 years. (Via A.J.)
• Laying claim to the works of Martín Ramírez, an artist who spent much of his life in a California mental institution.
• More Pollocks that could be Pollocks. Or not.
• A “Rothkography” contest.
• Wordless art criticism, redux.
• An interview with James Kalm, of the D.I.Y. online art video series, The Kalm Report.
• Painting Seattle’s suburbs.
• Today’s graff: Onio, Matheus and Grim in Brazil.
• JR redoes London. (Via World’s Best.)
• Gettin’ Imelda: Kaws collaborates with Marc Jacobs on a limited edition run of ladies shoes.
• Dumpster hot tub.
• An almost-underground tennis stadium by Shuhei Endo in Hyogo, Japan.
• As a Le Corbusier retrospective prepares to open in London, the Independent looks at his legacy. Plus, the possibility that he was afraid of sex. Juicy! (Via Unbeige.)
• “Flying from the Air France Terminal at LAX…and arriving in Paris at Terminal 2E is like moving from a basement into a penthouse apartment.“
• Office bitch.
• Your moment of You Don’t Own Me, for my friends at the L.A. Times, courtesy of Yvonne Connasse.