The Digest. 07.01.08.

Self-portrait, by Paul Gaugin. (Image courtesy of lyceo_hispanico.)

• Interested in copying the chola prom look? Here’s a handy video with homegirl make-up tips. Perfect for the summer season. (Thanks, Vidalia, for the hook-up.)
• But do they come with a squishy caramel center? Paul McCarthy’s chocolate Santa butt plugs now on sale in New York! (I know what I’m eating as soon as I get back…)
• That’s a whole lotta frijoles: Triptych by Francis Bacon sells for almost $35 million at auction and Jeff Koons balloon dog goes for $23 million. More here.
• But they looked real: Ten of the Brooklyn Museum’s 30 Coptic sculptures are modern fakes.
• The Italian branch of the International Council of Museums has decried the practice of museums renting out their collections for money.
• Art Criticism of the Day: “Against all expectations, the first J.M.W. Turner survey to reach New York in 40 years has landed with a thud.”
• AFC reports that Jerry Saltz is gettin’ bloggy with it.
• John McEnroe on Andy Warhol: “He was this weird guy who was always at parties taking pictures. I was amazed when I was told that he was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.”
• I Heart Capitalism: Once-free tickets to visit Olafur Eliasson’s waterfall sculptures in NYC are being scalped on Craig’s List.
• Britain’s Tank Magazine is doing an open call for filmmakers for a competition in which directors will be asked to interpret the myth of the Three Graces. The deadline is August 25^th. (Good luck navigating the impenetrable film competition website.)
• How to respond to a rejection letter. (Via Reluctant Habits.)
• Movie studios trolling Flickr for free pictures to use as props in their movies. Otherwise, some producer might have to take a $100 pay cut.
• Pictures from PhotoEspaña, worth it for the pix by Florian Maier-Aiche.
• The photographs of Paul Outerbridge. (Via NotCot.)
• Graff of the Day: Webs, WKCR and AEC in the Ukraine. Many more here.
• Freestyling: Black Thought and ?uestlove, with Espo.
• Bring in the wrecking ball to make way for the McMansions: Westportnow.com has a handy interactive map that shows teardowns of vintage homes in that corner of Connecticut. (Via NYT.)
• In advance of the opening of his pavilion at the Serpentine Gallery, Frank Gehry says that England doesn’t love him: “I don’t think England likes me. The critics don’t, that’s for sure. I reckon I’ve got a couple of years in me, but I don’t count on making a career in England.”
• “Douchebag neck.” (Via Marshall Astor.)
• Your moment of hip-hop meets classical. (Thank you, Royce!)