The Digest. 02.04.09.

Part of the series Elle était si belle by Gabrielle de Montmollin. (Image courtesy of De Montmollin.)

• Colbert takes a deep, deep toke off the Hope Bong. We think “Change” is clearly short for “Change the Bong Water.” (To Fear It Is To Know It.)
• R.I.P. Peeler Man.
• Rhizome will be handing out grants to new media artists. Deadline is April 2. (Art Fag City.)
• The New Museum is looking for sleepers. (UpDownAcross.)
• L.A. MOCA’s board is slimming down. And hopefully it will stay that way. Plus: NYC’s MoMA is targeting the locals.
• A visual response to Regina Hackett’s street signs series. (See some of her other posts here, here and here.)
• Looking Around digs into the case of those Picassos at MoMA and the Gugg that were part of a Holocaust restitution fight.
• A Victorian blood book. (Dinosaurs & Robots.)
• Jean-Paul Gaultier’s muse: Sarah Palin? (Tomorrow Museum.)
• Lego New York. (jdickerson.)
• Photo essay: Contemporary art from the Middle East at Saatchi. (Rebel: Art.)
• A Boston Globe blog gives Shepard Fairey the smackdown, referring to him as a “graphic pickpocket.” (Vandalog.)
• Street pianos in Sydney. (Rebel: Art.)
• L.A.’s MTA crew — responsible for that blocks-long tag in the L.A. River — is busted. Plus: The NYT covers the Poster Boy bust, which the artist is now playing up as some sort of conceptual piece called “We Are All Poster Boys.”
• Architecture of snow and ice.
• What to do with the Bird’s Nest now that the Olympics are over? Why, turn it into a shopping mall, of course!
• Staircase porn, at the Public Records Office in Liestal, Switzerland.
• 1960s illustrations: Aluminum: How It’s Made and How it’s Used. (marcjohns.)
• Your moment of Caterpillar wheelies.