The Digest. 03.10.10.

Bunny Bread. (Photo by Alex Gaidouk.)

• Chile, nine days later. (Coudal.)
• An unofficial ad campaign for the New Museum highlights the institution’s ethical challenges.
• Speaking of which, the NuMu has a forum about art museums, private collectors and the public going down this Saturday…that costs $10 per person to attend.
• “You must ask him to get down. I know better than anyone what that is like, and even I can’t take it!” Marina Abramovic to a New Museum curator, on Pawel Althamer’s sculpture, Schedule of the Crucifix — after a performer’s legs began to turn blue while hanging on a makeshift cross in the galleries. (@ARTnewsmag.)
• Jerry Saltz seems to love anything as long as he’s featured in it. (@TylerGreenDC.)
• Obligatory Whitney Biennial round-up: Christian Viveros-Faune is ambivalent — likening parts of the show to Tylenol PM and others to the bitchslap of a new beginning, Paddy Johnson is a like, and Kriston Capps is of a mixed view. (Modern Art Notes.)
• Tino Sehgal, a kid’s take. (Art Fag City.)
• Yosi Sergeant talks about the out-of-touch NEA.
• Elisabeth Eaves on the gaps in Patti Smith’s memoir.
• This looks super-cool: Felix González-Torres pieces grace billboards in Texas. (Modern Art Notes.)
• Annie Liebovitz’s new creditors. (@russelltrombone.)
• L.A.’s Brody art collection worth big bucks.
• Ansel Adams’ photographs of Japanese internment camps.
• Jörg Colberg describes the art fairs as a place “where your soul is not only crushed, it’s actually slowly and steadily ground into a fine powder.” Yup, sounds about right.
• A visual summary of The Big Lebowski.
• Nice online piece from the Guggenheim for their Contemplating the Void exhibit, which examines the architectural/installation possibilities of the museum’s atrium. Can someone please scrape up some budget to let Arne Quinze build a stilthouse in the rotunda? Also digging the proposals by Andy Goldsworthy, Mass Studies, Martha Rosler and Amanda Levete’s rotunda reflection.
• Today’s Street Art: Jan Vormann’s Lego fixes in New York City. (@russelltrombone.)
• Extinction outpaces evolution.