The Digest. 12.08.08.

Ben Godward at the Laundromat Gallery in Brooklyn. (Photo by Yvonne Connasse.)

• Mass jumping at MoMA tonight!!! Beginning at 6:30 p.m. (MoMA’s Twitter.)
• The MOCA Mess: Roberta Smith says everyone needs to step to the plate, including rich artists (“you know who you are,” she writes) and not-so-rich folks, who might be able to donate $100 or $1,000. Plus: L.A.T. columnist Tim Rutten calls for a house cleaning. (Modern Art Notes.)
• Francis Bacon’s dying wish.
• Art21’s blog is exploring the topic of controversy in contemporary art this month. (The video at the bottom of this piece, in which students discuss the work of Kara Walker, is fascinating.) There are other posts, too: on self-consciousness and controversy, and willful controversy (which addresses the Turner Prize and the YBAs).
• Relational aesthetics, Flickr edition.
• Video: Takashi Murakami on money, success and art.
• Jeff Koons, thespian.
• I’m curious to see how this experiment fares: The Brooklyn Museum is creating a subscription-only Twitter art feed called 1stfans. Cost: $20. The incentive: 1stfans who turn out for the museum’s First Saturday event on Jan. 3 can get a free Swoon print, just B.Y.O paper. (Hrag Vartanian.) Related: Museums and Twitter.
• National Academy sells paintings to pay the light bill. More here.
• At the Basel Frazzle: An informal Herald survey reveals that sales mostly dropped or were flat. Sort of related: At CIFO Art Space, the art was in the interrogation. And a report on the fair’s largest piece, which in case you’re wondering, was a bell. Plus: because what Miami needs is another private museum, this time from real estate developer Craig Robins.
• The Moment talks to Dorothy Vogel.
• Nirvana baby now a Shepard Fairey intern.
• Today’s Graff: Roa in Pasadena.
• WYSE and NEKST seriously redo a WK Interact mural in Miami. 
• Street art as puzzle: El Autotono. (Ekosystem.)
• Christopher Hawthorne on L.A. Live, the city’s latest crap-ass megadevelopment project: “…their architecture is fundamentally not really architecture at all but an extensive series of armatures on which the developer and its tenants can hang logos, video screens and a sophisticated range of lighting effects.”
• David Chipperfield addition for the St. Louis Museum of Art is on hold due to the economic downturn.
• Felt architecture.
• The Skyline looks at how design and infrastructure upgrades will intersect under the incoming Obama administration. My personal plea to Obama: Please start with the nation’s airports. They are an embarrassment.
• Stormtroopers at the beach. (Coudal.)
• Your moment of New York, I love you, but you’re freaking me out.