The Digest. 07.27.09
The Toquepala open-pit copper mine in southern Peru. (Image courtesy of NASA.)
- The Charles Bukowski Hollywood Tour.
- Architect David Adjaye is fighting insolvency. (@artnetdotcom.)
- The Art Industrial Average is in the Pooper: How L.A.’s art galleries are weathering the economic sinkhole (by expanding); Seattle’s Henry hunkers down.
- Plus: Art collectors are selling. But vewy vewy quietly.
- Virginia Museum to get a trove of Expressionist art, including pieces by Kirchner and Kandinsky. (Arts Journal.)
- The V&A and Royal College of Art in London to close their joint conservation training program. (Arts Journal.)
- In sort of related news: Rock Center’s Deco murals get a spring cleaning.
- Gina Lollobrigida gets her own photo retrospective at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome.
- MoMA’s cooking up an exhibit of art related to the Bauhaus. More on Bauhaus-a-palooza here.
- Rent-an-artist: The world of art escorts. (Bloggy.)
- A gallery of vintage magazine graphic design. Who knew that Sunset looked vaguely cool in the 1930s.
- Human bodies glow.
- Today’s Graff: Ignoto in Brazil.
- Moscow’s historic architecture is being destroyed at a faster rate than any other city in Europe, says a report.
- The day in government border architecture.
- Some rad photos of Studio Gang’s craggy Aqua Tower in Chicago.
- The raddest looking barn.
- Your moment of panda bread.