
New Orleans lights. Photo by Trois Têtes.
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Starting with this clown. Photo by jasonmontague.
- The Celebrity Industrial Complex.
- Any art that utilizes images of Mickey Mouse or Marilyn Monroe. It’s been done. To death. Please stop.
- Douchebags.
- The use of the term “eco” as a ploy to sell people more shit.
- Starchitects.
- Visual art that requires an essay-length text on methodology to make the piece on display seem interesting.
- The phrase “design-conscious,” especially when referring to children. (They shit their pants. Does anyone think they really care about mid-century Modern?)
- Classist museum policies that allow women with Samsonite-sized handbags to breeze in, but force me to stand in Soviet-era lines to check in a backpack.
- The notion that Rudy Giuliani is a viable presidential candidate.
- The Art Bubble.
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Photo of the WPIX Yule Log by Michael Golrick.
I’m taking some time off so that I may engage in some unrepentant consumerism in honor of the Birth of the Saviour. The daily Digest will return next year (though there may be miscellaneous sporadic posts before then). See y’all in ‘08!
xox, C-Monster.

At the Pulse Art Fair. Photo by celso_nyc.
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No digest today. I’m busy. Photo by Brian Wallace.
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Sever, in the Wynwood District.
The best part of Art Basel: leaving the facelifts at the convention center to see what was going on in the outside world.
Lots more pix after the jump.
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The Day in Involuntary Collaborations: Augor and Revok redo a Murakami billboard in L.A. (See it LARGE.) The piece lasted for about two days. (Thanks to StreetRes for catching this on Flickr.) Photo by Ribbon Controller.
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Photos from the opening reception of Infinity’s Going Out of Business Sale at the Garage Gallery in Brooklyn. The show runs through Dec. 22nd, 2007.
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Jen Stark at the Spinello Gallery, in Miami. Photo by C-Monster.
- I Want, I Need, I Have to Have: An L. Ron Hubbard doll.
- Only in the dead tree edition: A Q&A with Os Gemeos in Bomb’s Winter ‘08 issue, in which the twins manage to avoid answering just about every single question. The photos, however, are awesome.
- Iraq’s National Museum now admitting small groups of visitors.
- Bring on the Dancing Dwarfs: The Met scores Arbus archives.
- L.A.’s Norton Simon Museum begins to loosen its death grip on its art.
- Visual Nuggets: NASA Edition. (Via Fecal Face.)
- Newsflash: Charlie Finch is grousing that the visual arts community doesn’t play a role in presidential politics. (And that’s probably for the best, given the pathetic state of national politics.) (Via Winkleman.)
- Modernism ain’t all that, says a new architectural book. (Via Arts Journal.)
- Art Lawsuit of the Week: The story behind those contested Picassos.
- In related news: Classical antiquities, once in the hands of the Getty and the Met, go on display in their new home, Rome.
- How the Art Institute of Chicago ended up with a bogus Gaugin. Plus: Looking Around meditates on the recent industry of fakes.
- When the toilet eats your coke.
- A bit of Open Air, a doc about street art, featuring Espo, Skewville, Tiki J, Faile, Dan Witz and Michael de Feo.
- Necessary merch for the impending apocalypse: the world’s smallest home.
- In a related story: Blinged-out shipping containers you can live in.
- A profile of the man inside the meat suit: Zhang Huan. (Worthwhile for the good photo essay.) If you’re in NYC, don’t miss his show at the Asia Society, on display through January 20th.
- Yay. Now let’s ban them here.
- In Bethlehem: Ron English on the Wall. (More shots here.)
- Your moment of Jean-Claude: splits edition. (Via Fecal Face.)
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