The Digest. 10.13.09.

Drunk Mickey in Bilbao. (Photo by Fragil.)

Update: And congrats to Chris Albert for winning the great C-Mon cheese giveaway!

• Cave painting, New York style.
• Lehman Bros. is having an art garage sale! (Grazie, WALR.)
• The Whitney moves ahead on a High Line museum.
• New Leonardo portrait may have been discovered. The giveaway? A fingerprint. (IIC.)
• Interesting fact: France is the biggest McDonald’s market in the world outside of the U.S.
• Speaking of which: the Louvre new director is trying to loosen the place up. (With McFlurries?)
• Miami dealers busy as bees for the impending Basel Frazzle.
• Kandinsky, visual rhyme.
• Slide show: the Gagosian store.
• A pop-up art shop in Istanbul.
• The collapse of New York’s real estate market: good for artists.
• Mitch Epstein, capturing the American thirst for energy. And getting detained in the process.
• NYPD allegedly refers to hipsters as “marshmallows” because they’re white and soft. (World’s Best Ever.)
• Luscious color: The photographs of Anthony Earl Smith.
• I want, I need, I have to have…a Cremaster sweatshirt.
• Today’s Graff: 3ttman in Mallorca, Spain.
• The Harvey Pekar webcombic. (Hustler of Culture.)
• A building that looks like a bar code.
• Your moment of the Daily Show on CNN’s coverage of the health care debate. A spectacular dismemberment. [For some reason, the permalink on this has an error in it, so it's not working. (Thanks, Viacom.) I'm linking to the main site. It's the first video up this morning, called CNN Leaves It There.]