The Digest. 01.09.09.

Sant Gregori Papa (1495) by Pedro Berruguete at the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya in Barcelona. (Photo by C-M.)

• The Online Gallery of Juror Art. (ackackack.)
• Greg.org has a helpful analysis of the lawsuit against Richard Prince.
• The Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy is looking for short films for its outdoor film series, held during the summer.
• Photographer Glen E. Friedman will be signing his books at Subliminal Projects in LA tomorrow. (The gallery has copies of his books on hand as well.) Plus: Grey Gardens is screening at LACMA this Sunday. (Marshall Astor.)
• GM is seriously cutting back on arts sponsorship in Detroit. More here.
• Chicago art podcast site Bad At Sports has entered a bit of a rough patch financially. Help ‘em out with a donation. (See the blue button on their header.)
• Despite all the gloom and doom, there is good news out there: Mustaches are back. And they’re not all ironic.
• The state of arts journalism in Seattle. Sounds like it’s the state of arts journalism in other places as well.
• It’s easier than ever to add bacon to your website.
• The photographs of Zoe Strauss and Eudora Welty.
• Impressionist portraits, updated.
• Some stonerrific geometric patterns, courtesy of Joanne Mattera.
• Today’s Graff: Freska in Oakland.
• Going Postal, a new book of postal label art from Martha Cooper.
• “What embassy architecture really shouldn’t be, is like the new US embassy in Baghdad.”
• Hold the Starchitecture! Jean Nouvel’s L.A. project suspended.
• Wallpaper highlights the year in bad design. And Yale’s School of Architecture, designed by Paul Rudolph, is on the list.
• Your grandmother’s couch, on steroids.
• Google Earth’s ancestor. Also known as “maps.”
• Your moment of Cab Calloway, Sesame style.