The Digest. 12.11.08.

Number 44, from the Silent series, by Muge, a photographer based in Chen Du. (Image courtesy of Muge.)

• The Hello Kitty maternity ward. (Coudal.)
• Paper fashion.
• How the University of Iowa saved its art—including Jackson Pollock’s Mural—during this summer’s floods. (Modern Art Notes.)
• Mexico City’s new contemporary art museum.
• How I wish I’d been there. Photos of the MoMA jumps. (Mattress Factory’s Twitter.)
• Slideshow: Netherlandish paintings of the 15th century.
• Cemeteries surrounded by parking lots.
• In Sweden: Giving tobacco earnings away in the name of art.
• How to draw in 3-D, ‘80s style.
• Portraits of dogs and portraits of desks.
• An 8,000 year-old giraffe petroglyph.
• “Seven Things We Learned at Art Basel in Miami,” from New York Magazine. Number 7? “Dubai is the new Miami.” (Unbeige.)
• The Seventh Letter Crew at Miami Basel, including murals by Ewok, Saber, Sever, Augor, Risk, Retna & the Mac.
• Today’s Street Art: Alexandros Vasmoulakis in Greece.
• OMG, I need, I want, I have to have…a no graffiti T-shirt.
• ¡Architecture criticism smackdown! Ada Louise Huxtable on Brad Cloepfil’s redo of the Museum of Arts and Design, who writes that “criticism of the structure has been alarmingly out of proportion and flagrantly out of control.” (CultureGrrl.)
• Alternatives to Don Fisher’s original design for a private museum in San Francisco’s Presidio. More on the Fisher story here.
• Judith Regan’s firing from HarperCollins cost $10.75 million. Dear HarperCollins: Please feel free to fire me any time. I’ll give you a discount rate of one million. Oh, who am I kidding? I’d take fifty thou…
• Your moment of black holes.