The Digest. 06.22.09.

Sin Título (Untitled), 1971 an oil-on-canvas work by the Arequipa-born Bill Caro at the Lima Art Museum (MALI) exhibit at the Fundación Wiese gallery in downtown Lima. (Photo by C-M.)

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• “The cool new brand that enables you to make real contemporary pieces of art from the comfort of your own home.” Sublime. (Rebel:Art.)
• MoMA’s fourth and fifth floors are vagina-deficient. The Saltz-Master is on the case.
• Plus: the Saltz-Master on the Venice Biennale: “Impersonal, administratively adept, highly professionalized, formally generic, mildly gregarious, aesthetically familiar, totally knowing, cookie-cutter.”
• ¡Art Industry Smackdown, Motherfucker Edition! Geoff Dyer versus Peter Schjeldahl over Schjeldahl’s comments about Dyer’s book. I have no way of knowing if that’s really a Schjeldahl comment at the bottom of the post, but who cares. It’s juicy!  (Anaba.)
• Oh, do they want those Elgin Marbles back. Photo Essay: The new Acropolis Museum. More on the museum here. (A.J.)
• Here’s hoping this British TV program arrives Stateside: Today’s Nude.
• Michelangelo’s supposed first painting. So totally demonic.
• In the O.C.: High drama over some plein-air paintings sold all-too-secretly by OCMA.
• The Art Industrial Average is Low: NYC’s art galleries brace for a very quiet summer; Chicago Art Institute lays off 3% of its staff; Gugg lays off 25. Plus: Collectors score deals at Basel. (A.J., A.O., AFC.)
• Geek Out! The St. Louis Art Museum to convert one of its galleries into a public paintings conservation lab. So rad.
• My Papa’s Waltz: In honor of Father’s Day (belatedly), Another Bouncing Ball mashes up a poem by Theodore Roethke with images by Charles LeDray. The result: pure awesomeness.
• Antony Gormley’s terracotta army. Whoa. More here. (A.O.)
• Robert Indiana’s giant EAT sign to be lit up in Maine after 44 year hiatus.
• Michael Kamber on how to be a conflict photographer. An incredible story accompanied by an even more incredible photo essay.
• Oh the possibilities: Tin Eye, a search engine (still in early beta stages) that lets you find images using other images.
• A Daily Dose of Architecture takes a tour of NYC High Line. And took lots of pictures!
• What would Sarah Palin think? A competition for the design of a road connecting Russia to Alaska via the Bering Strait…sponsored by Sun Myung Moon. With relentlessly cheesy propaganda video — touting it as a road to world peace — to boot!
• Wanted: Buyer for leaky fixer-upper. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House is for sale in L.A.
• The New York Times Magazine on building a better prison. (architecture.mnp.)
• Your moment of Louis Vuitton, Mexicali style.