The Digest. 01.23.08.

View from the terrace at the New Museum of Contemporary Art: Verbs and Esen. See it large.

• Take Mad Money’s Jim Cramer, add a dash of Richard Simmons, season with Bob Ross. What do you get? This.
• Chelsea Art Museum faces foreclosure.
• Olafur Eliasson in one and two parts. Also: pix of a different piece here, and a video interview.
• From the Department of Don’t Hold Back: Canada’s plans for a national portrait gallery are “a national embarrassment that makes us look like peasants on the international scene,” says one expert there. (Via Arts Journal.)
• Video: Os Gemeos do a Scottish castle.
• Newsflash: You can find art on the Internets.
• Visual Nuggets: The most ethereal photographs of break dancers, by Denis Darzacq. (Via WBE.)
• Photo Essay: The BMW Welt building, designed by Wolf Prix of Coop Himmelb(l)au. (The Black-Eyed Peas called. And they want their punctuation back.)
• This is what classical music types do for fun. (More here.)
• The Guardian weighs in on the Christian Viveros-Faune mess. (Also, getting on my last nerve: All of these stories bemoan the fact that critics are forced into other lines of work because, newsflash, they don’t make much money writing. Suck it up, people: Nobody becomes a writer to get rich. If cash is your object, become an entertainment lawyer.)
• R.I.P. Heath Ledger.
• In related news: I think the NYT has more people on the Ledger story than they do in the entire Middle East. Check out the list of bylines at the bottom of this article.
• Adventures in Intercultural Relations: Mitt Romney tries to talk to black people. Update: It gets even better. There’s video.
• The Internet, in perspective.
• Your moment of dancing, all jumpin’ jive-like.