The Digest. 03.19.10.

Surfer Blood at the Brooklyn Bowl. (Photo by timnyc.)

• Baby dictators.
• Art Industry Kerfuffle: Jeffrey Deitch’s big art garage sale will extend into his tenure as director of MoCA.
• The New Times reports on the proposed Herzog & De Meuron-designed Miami Art Museum originally slated to open in 2011: “It’ll never happen.” (Get a short overview of the story on the weekly’s Riptide 2.0 blog.)
• The PS 1 lights-out-performance-art controversy that just won’t go away.
• Marina Abramovic at MoMA appears to be inspiring all kinds of weirdness. (Thanks peoplemovr, for the heads up.)
• The Seattle Art Museum will now allow photography. Yes. (@ARTnewsmag.)
• The New York Observer describes William Powhida as a “genial weiner.” (I smell T-shirt.) Not as genial: Powhida’s “catastrofuck” blog rant: “I’m not here to make paintings that make you feel better about your existence on earth. Go to church.” Somewhat related: There’s a shout-out to UFO 907 on the lower right hand corner of the Miami Basel Hooverville drawing.
• Art dealer Lawrence Salander pleads guilty to a $120 million art fraud.
• Plus: museums, blah blah blah, museums…the NYT special museums section.
• Slideshow: The darkness of Otto Dix.
• Cinema for house plants.
• The shopping cart, reconsidered.
• Photos: Expo, 1970 — Osaka.
• Yann Gross’s photos of Ugandan skateboarders.
• New term: Digital Folklore.
• Street signs in shadow.
• Today’s Graff: A blue dog by Laguna in Morocco. Lovely piece.
• On the architectural equivalent of ambulance chasing. (@ARTnewsmag.)
• Construction kicks off on La Zaha’s Broad Art Museum in Michigan.
• Photos from the first freestyle alligator wrestling championships. Reminds me of my heady days as a ‘gator wrestler. (Don’t laugh. Girl’s gotta make a living…)