The Digest. 10.09.08.

The D.I.Y. Louis Vuitton car, Los Angeles. (Photo by C-M.)

• New York City: The next Venice.
• Watch this Video: Gabriel Orozco, discussing his piece Obit. Wonderful.
• Charles Saatchi, art collector: “He has an ad man’s taste for spectacle and a rich man’s sense of personal prerogative.”
• Ex-Enron official sued by a N.Y. gallery for allegedly trying to extort $150,000 by claiming a painting he bought there was a forgery.
• Acid rain umbrella.
• Photo Essay: Early Lucien Freud. Very different from his later work. Plus: one of Freud’s models talks about what it’s like to pose for The Man.
• Animation of the Week: Animals.
• Syria is hosting its first international loan show – of ceramics from the V&A –from a major museum.
• NPR interviews Sherri Geldin of the Wexner Art Center, in Ohio, about their Andy Warhol show. Love love love the listener who calls in and says, “If I could afford it, I wouldn’t buy any of his work.”
• Catherine Opie’s summer vacation.
• Graphing the quality of sci-fi books.
• Stop the Presses: Banksy is doing something. Photos here. (Are those floating turd logs in the fish bowl??)
• Graff of the Day: Peeta in Italy.
• Sex graffiti.
• Video: Barry McGee takes viewers of KQED’s Gallery Crawl through his show at Ratio 3 in S.F. (Gay Swan, C-Monster.net‘s new S.F. correspondent covered the show here. Stayed tuned for her incisive report about Mahjong, the Chinese contemporary art show at the Berkeley Art Museum, later this afternoon.)
• The Day in Cantilevers: The Museum Liaunig, by Querkraft in Austria.
• A lovely chapel by Stan Allen Architect in the Philippines.
• Trippy mirrored sculpture: VTOL by Kram/Wesisshaar in Vienna.
• A chandelier made of wood.
• Your moment of L.A. Times song dedication: sooner or later gonna cut you down.