The Digest. 09.21.09.

Boba Fett is alive and well. And making a living as an itinerant accordionist in New York City. (Photo by C-M.)

• What happens when you die? Radiolab explores. (Set aside an hour for this. It’s well worth it.)
• Passport photos of famous people.
• Awesome slideshow: Kandinsky’s heirs. (Modern Art Notes.)
• Analyze This: The lines of master engravers.
• How do you clean a Viking treasure? With porcupine quills and cactus spines, of course. (IIC.)
• A painting series for our time: Conrad Bakker’s Untitled Project: e-Bay/Depression Glass.
• Art magazines, the ’50s versus today.
• Partying hearty with Takashi Murakami. Just don’t call it partying.
• Yoko Ono on her first memory: “My earliest memory is slipping out of my mother’s thighs and looking at surgical instruments on a table in an operating theatre.” Plus, she thinks Beatles Rock Band is “the second revolution.”
• Anthony Gormley’s Fourth Plinth: Jonathan Jones at the Guardian doesn’t like it. At all.
• A fantasy library grows at New York’s Hispanic Society.
• Photo Essay: Nature at its best.
• Today’s Street Art: Chris and Veng of Robots Will Kill do Wild Things.
• RIP: Lignes Rouges dead of a heart attack at 27.
• SoHo’s I Am the Best Artist totally buffed! So wrong…
• Thom Mayne unveils design for new museum of nature and science in Dallas. Pictures here. (Arts Journal.)
• There goes the neighborhood: Santiago Calatrava just bought a 35-acre pad in Connecticut.
• A concrete house that vaguely resembles a demented container ship, in Rosario, Argentina.
• I want, I need, I have to have…pill pillows and psychedelic wallpaper.
• Your moment of Nike C-Monster.