The Digest. 1.10.08.

Chamundi Temple. Photo by Luna Park.

• Harkening back to the days of Monica Lewinsky: New York Mag describes Julian Schnabel as the “portly painter.”
• Art Criticism of the Day: Charlie Finch on Julian Schnabel: “To own a work by Schnabel is not really owning a work of art. It is more like having a souvenir from the circus.”
• The First Artworld Smackdown™ of 2008! Art to Go versus Art Fag City, on the subject of the 10 Worst Websites. Let’s get ready to rumbbbblllllllle!
• Cartier’s visual arts foundation in Paris is hot, hot, hot.
• Also hot: Adopting African babies.
• Pimp My Ride: with LED rims.
• The show will go on: European works from Russia will head to London’s Royal Academy after all. (Via Arts Journal.)
• Museum director musical chairs: Sylvia Wolf, of the Whitney, to take over Seattle’s Henry; Dorothy Kosinski, of the Dallas Museum, to take over Washington’s Phillips, and Manuel Borja Villel, of MACBA, to head up the Reina Sofía in Madrid.
• A portal to New Orleans grows in Brooklyn. (Via Luna Park.)
  
• Tired of dressing like a white person? A handy guide to chola style.
• More Elvis: Jack White edition.
• New book: Walton Ford’s Pancha Tantra.
• Photo of the Day: Andre the Giant Tossing Mr. Fuji by Ted Pushinsky.
• Take an MP3 player, add a Taser. What does it add up to? A fine opportunity to electrocute myself while searching for Welcome to the Jungle.
• The day in geek porn: Babes with Books. (Via the World’s Best Ever.)
• Spooky.
• In NYC: Emery Blagdon at Cavin-Morris Gallery, through Saturday, and Andy Warhol at the Woodward Gallery.
• In Myrtle Beach: Republican sand heads by Team Sandtastic.
• In Hong Kong: Zaha Hadid’s design for the new Polytechnic University building.
• Your moment of lovin’, all gross-like.