The Digest. 12.17.08.

Grasp. (Photo by Moshiano.)

• The New York Public Library is on Flickr. And they have some truly rad images.
• You’ve got 24 more hours to sign up for the C-Mon Holiday Giveaway Spectacular!
• MOCA MESS-a-palooza: LACMA offers the museum a merger. Cue the stories: NYT (which reports that Strick is negotiating the terms of his resignation), Culture Monster, Bloomberg and the official press release. More about the mess on KCRW, where various government officials voice their opposition to a LACMA merger. 
• Related: the LAT’s Christopher Knight invests in Vija Celmins Night Sky brownies at the MOCA bake sale. Next time: please include notes on texture and flavor. (On a related note: my initial peevishness with the name aside, I gotta say that the Culture Monster blog has been killing it on this story. Nice work, you guys.)
• Photo Essay: Vik Muniz talks about his Artist’s Choice show at MOMA.
• From the Department of Second Acts: Tate Britain to restage a William Blake show that was panned 200 years ago.
• Just awesome: Mondrian’s Paris studio.
• NYC’s 31 Grand is closing.
• Save the Date: Art Blogger Think Tank on Jan. 18, in Brooklyn.
• Nude models on strike. In the nude!
• The Bubble Machine. A cool way to find exhibits in NYC. (MoMA’s Twitter.)
• The art of money. (ackackack.)
• Creepy Santa photos. Sorta related: Artists reinvent Santa.
• Plus: Nothing says Christmas cheer like a grenade ornament. Only €16. (NotCot.)
• Today’s Street Art: Gualicho in Buenos Aires.
• Wooden K-Swiss.
• Frank Lloyd Wright’s leaky Unity Temple receives a $200,000 grant for repairs.
• Please let the Bush regime end. Now. Seriously, was tax money spent on this? (Ana Marie Cox’s Twitter.)
• Speaking of tax money… here’s a piece of White House furniture I’d like to know the fate of: the Grizzly Bear Chair. (Mercy, Mlle. Connasse.)
• Your moment of Muppet chickens meet 2001: A Space Odyssey.