The Digest. 01.26.09.

Aarhus Town Hall in Aarhus, Denmark, designed by Arne Jacobsen, with Erik Møller, 1937-42. See the bird’s eye view here. (Photo by Seier + Seier.)

• The Day in Corporate Malfeasance: Merill Lynch CEO spent $1.2 million on a swanky office re-do as he was preparing to lay off employees. Here’s the full shopping list. (Thanks, Big Papi G.)
• Photo Essay: Neil Pardington’s The Clinic. (Conscientious.)
• Calling all filmmakers! Moviehouse at Third Ward in Brooklyn is looking for your two-minute films. Deadline is Feb. 2. (Read the blog’s sidebar, on the right, for submission details.)
• Chelsea gallery deathwatch.
• Seattle Art Museum being left in the hole by JP Morgan (which took over Washington Mutual), as the bank pulls out of a lease arrangement with the museum.
• Rirkrit Tiravanija is hosting a ping-pong match at Nyehaus in NYC, on Wednesday.
• The Salvador Dalí Quiz.
• A Q&A with Michael Frank of the Museum of Bad Art.
• How can museums cope with hard times? Pull some great works out of the attic, says Jerry Saltz.
• Photos from Art L.A. in one and two parts.
• 10 Porn Stars Who Twitter.
• The Obameter. (ackackack.)
• Today’s Graff: Gualicho in San Jose, Costa Rica.
• Goodbye starchitecture, hello infrastructure.
• Frank Lloyd Wright’s La Miniatura, in Pasadena, is for sale. Plus: the mystery of a non-stolen Wright chair from SC Johnson Wax that somehow ended up on e-Bay. (The Skyline.)
• Princess Zaha now designing faucets. I anxiously await the Hadid Bidet.
• Photo Essay: Wallpaper rounds up residential architecture in Australia.
• Paper robots. Awesome. (NotCot.)
• Your moment of cha-cha cam. Still not sure what this is about. (the_glendon.)