The Digest. 11.30.09.

Calzado de Luyano, by Jan Koster; part of a series on Havana. (Image courtesy of Jan Koster.)

• Porn Font. (Thank you, Fab.)
• And now, for the Basel Frazzle: The Boyd Level PDF guide to the Frazzle — everything you need on the Miami fairs in a handy two-page PDF. Niiiiice. (Thanks for the heads up, Joanne Mattera.)
• The big question hovering over Miami’s big art bazaar: Is anyone gonna take home any of the merch? The city of Miami sure hopes so. More here. Plus: The Herald‘s go-Basel-go coverage can be found here.
• Sculptor Mark Handforth on Miami: “It’s easy for our homegrown artists to get a little drowned out by the Basel hoopla…but there are people in this town who only understand money. So if you want the city government to take art and culture seriously, there’s nothing like 200 private jets at the airport to wake them up.“
• Newsflash: Artists poorer than ever.
• Guggenheim Bilbao director sentenced to 32 months in prison for theft. (Arts Journal.)
• Shaquille O’Neal, curator. Seriously.
• Google is documenting the Iraq National Museum’s collection. (Eyeteeth.)
• OMG!!! I so want to be in a Paul McCarthy video. Wearing a George Bush mask and running around in my choneys while sawing my head open.
• “Tracey Emin pontificates on her famousness.”
• Art dealer archipelagos.
• The Day in Art Merch: A Raymond Pettibon T-Shirt.
• Medieval mountains of food, all artsy-like.
• R.I.P. Looking Around. You will be missed.
• Today’s Street Art: Lace and concertina wire in NYC. Awesome.
• The impact of the Bauhaus (not the band). Video here.
• Speaking of which: A Mies couch you can eat.
• Toyo Ito’s Berkeley museum is being called off because of $$$ problems.
• A slideshow of Herzog & De Meuron’s proposed Miami Art Museum.
• The Burj Dubai: Whoa. Video of the vertigo-inducing views from the spire: Double whoa. An article on Dubai’s collapsing economy: Daaaaang. (AFC.)
• Egypt’s “Garbage City.”