The Digest. 09.09.09.

Find an absolutely wonderful set of photos of Lima’s surroundings, by Carlos Jimenez Cahua over here. (Image courtesy of Jimenez Cahua. Thanks Big Papi G for the heads up!)

• Artists and their studios. And as @giovannigf points out, with no sign of studio assistants anywhere.
• Austrian family wants Vermeer it sold to Hitler back. (Arts Journal.)
• “CultureGrrl is Not ‘The Future of Arts Journalism.”‘ Don’t worry, Lee, arts journalism isn’t the future of arts journalism! (@TylerGreenDC.)
• Charlie Finch=Glenn Beck, says ArtVent.
• Is Cartrain’s stealing a bunch of Damien Hirst’s pencils from a museum installation the equivalent of Tony Shafrazi defacing Picasso’s Guernica? Or is it just Dumb & Dumber: Part IV?
• Macy’s and its windows to get artsy fartsy this month as part of the Crossing the Line Festival.
• The Met is rearranging deck chairs. (Arts Journal.)
• The Colombians are getting back at us for all that bad foreign policy.
• Calling all performance artists.
• Trying to restore the world’s oldest computer.
• Trippy: A video head.
• Looks like an interesting book: Warhol TV.
• A photo preview of Saatchi’s photography show.
• There’s no such thing as too many pictures of penguins.
• In related oceanic themes…Today’s Street Art: SR-X in Cologne.
• Photo essay: village life, by Stefan Hobmaier.
• The Annual Carbuncle Cup: Britain’s Worst Buildings! Liverpool Ferry Terminal by L.A.’s Hamilton Architects takes the top spot: “Looking like a karaoke version of a Zaha Hadid project, it takes the form of a skew-whiff cross-section that has been extruded like a stick of rock.” (L.A.T.)
• Brad Pitt + Architecture + Gerbils. Seriously.
• Your moment of a cat, a dog and a pile of hamburgers.