The Digest. 12.09.08.

Clockwork Atomics x302 by Scott Wilson. See the series. (Image courtesy of Scott Wilson.)

• Damien Hirst threatens to sue 16-year-old. (Arts Journal.)
• Newsflash! The Economist has discovered that low people enjoy high culture and vice versa. Seriously, print this out and read it on the train ride home. It’s quite good. (Thank you veddy veddy much, Big Papi G.)
• Girls in art: Art21 gives Cindy Sherman a thumbs up and Richard Prince, a thumbs down.
• Like a Turrell sky space, but not.
• Neuroscientists can measure abstract art’s emotional resonance.
• Plastic bags as artful headdress.
• The Day in Round-Ups: The Top 10 magazine covers and museum shows according to Time, and 11 unusual Christmas album covers from Grotesk over at 12 oz. Prophet (World’s Best Ever).
• Artist Mark Ryden releases a $6,000 print to benefit MOCA.
• SFMOMA director David Ross is tweeting ten cultural policies that he thinks Obama should adopt.
• The Tate Britain has a Christmas tree that operates on pedal power. (Eco Art Blog.)
• This year Miami Basel was less about money and more about art, reports the Herald.
• AFC has a slew of good links today, among them: A NYT story about the media’s sky-is-falling syndrome and an op-ed that asks that publishers not waste any more money on book deals for celebutards.
• Good news for my remaining brain cells: Red wine and pot may help ward off Alzheimer’s.
• The Day in Art Merch: Graffiti highboys. Awesome.
• Today’s Street Art: Lister.
• The NYT may borrow $225 million against its Renzo Piano building to prevent a cash crunch. (Culture Monster.)
• Balancing form and function: NPR reports on Daniel Libeskind’s San Francisco and Denver museums.
• Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House, gingerbread edition. (Unbeige.)
• Schematics for Morphosis’s new pharmaceutical campus outside of Shanghai.
• The 20 Stupidest G.I. Joe vehicles ever. (Coudal.)
• Your moment of How to Hide an Unwanted Erection. (Mercy, Mlle. Connasse.)