The Digest. 01.22.08.

Artillery. Taji, Iraq. Photo by Luodanli.

• I’m Glad It’s Not Just Me: Gerard Richter thinks “everyone is crazy.”
• Nobuo Takahashi’s animated landscapes.
• Indispensable Architectural Lesson: The Slog teaches us the true meaning of Brick House.
• Another Reason To Never Trust Anyone Affiliated with an Organized Religion: All those Chinese antiquities at the Royal Ontario Museum may have been acquired by a priest with sticky fingers. (Via Arts Journal.)
• I’m Sure Putin Will Be Delighted to Write a Check: French Heirs of Russian collectors, whose works of art were confiscated by the Soviets, want to be compensated.
• Keeping the art conservators employed: More than half of the pillars in Berlin’s Holocaust memorial are cracked.
• Boston Newsflash: Here’s what happens when you help the DEA: You get deported.
• Video of the Day: Walking by Blu. (Via Fecal Face.)
• Sculptural street installations by Truth, in Poland. (More here.)
• Visual Nuggets: The book art of Will Ashford. (Via ackackack.)
• You too can be the proud owner of a Neckface van. (Via Smokkelaar.)
• Rock pillows.
• Sort-of New Book: Born in the Bronx: A Visual Record of the Early Days of Hip-Hop.
• Sublime Political Photo of the Day. (Via PDN Pulse.)
• The Day in Apocalypse Merch: Dutch architects devise houses that float on water.
• Your moment of beaver.