The Digest. 03.16.09.

Photograph by Lee Gumienny at the Red and Black Cafe in Portland, Ore. Part of Slate’s photographic project Shoot the Recession. Submit your own pix to their Flickr group here. (Image courtesy of Lee Gumienny.)

• I heart Roland Hedley’s Twitter.
• The great thing about a recession: tire fires.
• The Saltz-master, not a fan of Lisa Yuskavage.
• ‘Cuz too much formaldehyde is never enough: Ukrainian steel billionaire to host largest Damien Hirst show ever in Kiev.
• In: Old Masters. Out: Contemporary. More here.
• The Getty Trust is doing some serious budget slashing after investment losses of almost $1.5 billion. (Modern Art Notes.)
• OCMA closing its satellite video lounge at South Coast Plaza, the mall where a young C-Mon once toiled. (Arts Journal.)
• Today’s Gallery News: Yvon Lambert to shut down London space, while Mary Boone is suing an Ohio collector for not buying a piece she said she was gonna buy. That tactic should draw in the customers. (Second item.)
• Plus: the Chinese art market bottoms out.
• Oh, yes! Ways of Seeing (Episode 1) is on Vimeo. (Fimoculous.)
• Mel Chin profiled by Studio 360 for his New Orleans piece, Fundred Dollar Bills. (Scroll all the way to the bottom, on the left.) Learn how to make your own Fundred here.
• Check out the red ribbon line-up in Justin Kemp’s Pseudo Event, part of 7 x 7, an online exhibited hosted by whyandwherefore.com. I’d link directly to the piece, but I can’t. (Grrr.) Hit this link, and then click number six, Rhizome. It’s the first piece in the line-up.
• The last 51 years of art history as represented by 51 seconds of Battlestar Galactica. (reBlog.)
• The Psycho Bath Mat.
• Graff of the Day: The Seventh Letter Crew in L.A.
• The graffiti box.
• Photo Essay: Detroit’s Beautiful, Horrible Decline. (Skyline.)
• Sears Tower to be renamed the Willis Tower.
• Paul Goldberger on the architecture of New York City’s ball parks. And Christopher Hawthorne on the L.A. Dodgers’ new spring training complex in Arizona.
• Your moment of atrocious defense videos. (Conscientious via @hragv.)