The Digest. 09.08.09.

Laundromat. (Photo by Vidalia.)

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• Permanent marker drawings of VHS tapes.
• Interpol now has a website database of stolen art. But you need to file an application before viewing its contents. (IIC.)
• The Art Industrial Average is: Flaccid. In related news: Art as investment. Seriously.
• The L.A. Times‘ Christopher Knight gives the blow-by-blow on the possibly fake Frida Kahlo archive – which, unlike most people, he’s actually seen.
• Exvotos.
• Your art in Times Square.
• Really enjoying Jen Bekman’s Tumblr.
• Want to do a DIY show using fallow real estate? Winkleman has a few tips.
• New York City’s cement trees.
• A round-up of fire look-out towers.
• A 3-D section of a termite mound, built to human scale, at London’s International Arts Pestival, celebrating “insects in art.” Like, totally gnarly.
• An interview with Robert Frank’s elevator girl. (Toxico Cultura.)
• Magnum photographer Martin Parr in talks to leave his collection of historic and contemporary British photos to the Tate and V&A.
• The art of street art photography.
• Today’s Street Art: Blu in Milan. (World’s Best.)
• A wonderful story by Christopher Hawthorne on the Prince, architecture and the federal stimulus program – and how they all come together.
• Slideshow: A gallery of Peter Zumthor’s buildings, as shot by Helene Binet.
• Now those are some nicely framed views: A house in Otake by Suppose Design Office. Don’t miss this pic.
• Your moment of Trixie Friganza. (Gracias, Bloggy.)