The Digest. 12.18.07.

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 20^th.
• 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.)