The Digest. 07.08.09.

Tita3 in Peru. (Photo by enteserhumano.)

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• The Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies. (ackackack.)
• ArtNews’s Top 200 Collectors.
• Dang, do I love me some lawsuit: Brooklyn’s River Café suing over salt water damage suffered from Olafur Eliasson’s waterfalls. (@kenwheaton.)
• The Art Industrial Average Continues Its Downward Slide: The market sinks at London auctions.
• After all the brouhaha about wanting it back, the Euphronios krater isn’t exactly attracting awe-struck crowds in Italy.
• One word: Plastics. They don’t live as long as we thought they did. (Arts Journal.)
• Sarah Jessica Parker talks to ArtNet for “literally three minutes” about her new art reality show. (Animal.)
• The Guardian crowdsources coverage of Gormley’s Fourth Plinth project. Plus: Rupert Christiansen at the Telegraph reports that the installation has already become a bore. (Best of 3.)
• Speaking of crowds: LACMA is dealing with Michael Jackson mourners intent on getting as close as they can to Koons’ sculpture of Jackson with Bubbles.
• The week in art world conflict: Philip Smith was left out of the Met’s Pictures Generation show and the Saltz-Master isn’t gonna take it anymore. Plus: Greg.org takes on the wall text.
• Photographs of Cuba by Ernesto Bazan.
• In other news: Alberto Gonzales finally found a job.
• Today’s Street Art: Amose in Tokyo.
• In time for Christmas? Zaha Hadid’s Chicago pavilion – which was supposed to open in June – still not open.
• Design schemes for NOLA homes from Brad Pitt’s architectural foundation.
• Frank Lloyd Wright’s various designs for the Guggenheim.
• Priceless: An open letter to Dwell Magazine.
• Your moment of Have You Heard of Hip-Hop?