The Digest. 07.27.09

The Toquepala open-pit copper mine in southern Peru. (Image courtesy of NASA.)

• The Charles Bukowski Hollywood Tour.
• Architect David Adjaye is fighting insolvency. (@artnetdotcom.)
• The Art Industrial Average is in the Pooper: How L.A.’s art galleries are weathering the economic sinkhole (by expanding); Seattle’s Henry hunkers down.
• Plus: Art collectors are selling. But vewy vewy quietly.
• Virginia Museum to get a trove of Expressionist art, including pieces by Kirchner and Kandinsky. (Arts Journal.)
• The V&A and Royal College of Art in London to close their joint conservation training program. (Arts Journal.)
• In sort of related news: Rock Center’s Deco murals get a spring cleaning.
• Gina Lollobrigida gets her own photo retrospective at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome.
• MoMA’s cooking up an exhibit of art related to the Bauhaus. More on Bauhaus-a-palooza here.
• Rent-an-artist: The world of art escorts. (Bloggy.)
• A gallery of vintage magazine graphic design. Who knew that Sunset looked vaguely cool in the 1930s.
• Human bodies glow.
• Today’s Graff: Ignoto in Brazil.
• Moscow’s historic architecture is being destroyed at a faster rate than any other city in Europe, says a report.
• The day in government border architecture.
• Some rad photos of Studio Gang’s craggy Aqua Tower in Chicago.
• The raddest looking barn.
• Your moment of panda bread.