The Digest. 12.14.07.

Graffiti detail. Photo by Royal Antidote.

• But will they have drive-thrus? Imagine an art world where it’s all Gagosians and Guggenheims. It’s actually not that far off.
• From the Department of Artistic Appropriation: More on Richard Prince and his Marlboro Man knock-offs.
• Billionaires beware: the Smithsonian is gonna have to raise private funds to fix what ails it.
• The day in Kiki Smith tattoos.
• In unrelated news: I love that Maev Kennedy over at the Guardian art blog is holding a pint in her author headshot. Party on, sister!
• Graff of the Day: Seher in Mexico.
• What to do with all those empty CD cases? Why, make a chandelier!
• Picturepalooza: More images from Art Basel and its various offspring can be found here, here and here. Plus: additional pix of the Primary Flight street art installation.
• Banksy? Or Not Banksy? The English city of Evesham debates.
• Gettin’ drippy: Krink has a new line of colored inks.
• The light fantastic: laser tagging continues to get its 15 minutes.
• Only in the dead-tree edition: National Geographic Traveler has a good round-up of Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian houses that you can stay in, in its Jan/Feb issue. The story isn’t online, but you can read a blog post about one of the houses here.
• Cool-looking architecture book: Natural Architecture by Alessandro Rocca.
• Even more architecture news nobody cares about: Robert A.M. Stern appointed to third term as Yale’s architecture dean (Via ArtForum) and Renzo Piano won an award.
• Andy Warhol’s guide to manners.
• Blingier (and more useful) than Damien Hirst’s diamond skull: A 24K gold vibrator. (Via Complex.)
• More must-have merch: a cozy for your 40.
• In NYC: Lucian Freud at MoMA (see the photo essay) and William Steig, Shrek’s creator, at the Jewish Museum.
• In S.F: Fecal Face reports that a commissioned Barry McGee piece from the train stop at Judah and Sunset has been stolen. (There’s no way to link to just this item on their site, so look for the story that says “Twist Thief” in the middle column.)
• Your moment of sheep.