The Digest. 01.06.10.

Vapor Cloud, by Mitch Dobrowner, from the upcoming exhibit Tropospheres, opening Saturday in Los Angeles. (Image courtesy of Kopeikin Gallery.)

• James Franco’s bad boy artist character from General Hospital to show at Deitch. The mind reels. (@artnetdotcom.)
• RIP Kenneth Noland, color field artist. NYT obit here.
• The art market blue period: the WSJ does an art industrial average year-in-review. (Newshour Art Beat.)
• Tragic: Velveteria, the velvet painting museum in Oregon to close. (Thanks to Jeff Weinstein for the heads up!)
• Artist planning to spend 24 hours at Best Buy without buying anything. (Art Fag City.)
• The Whitney Museum is looking for NYC teenagers. Sadly, it’s not for a performance art piece. (@artnetdotcom.)
• Guardians of the art world. Pairs well with men who sit and wait. (@MuseumModernArt.)
• Michael de Broin’s Dead Star.
• Fragmented cities: the photographs of Alejandro Cartagena. See Cartagena’s website here.
• To quote Tyler Green: ” Let me see if I get this right: In Canada, it is possible to get government funding for a bronze sculpture of a nude hockey player to be installed in Vancouver at the ‘gay meeting place’ for the Oympics. If that isn’t enough to make us all move to British Columbia, what is?” Oh, Canada!
• Now this is a name for a show: “The Visible Vagina.” Which takes me to the quote of the day: “I’ve got vaginas coming out of my wazoo.”
• Absolutely gorgeous frackin’ photo essay of a winter visit to the Spiral Jetty.
• The coming flood. (Arts Journal.)
• Put on your drool catcher: 7 decades of cookies, courtesy of Gourmet. (Cherries in Winter.)
• 3rd Ward Moviehouse in Brooklyn is looking for your three-minute romantic movies. Deadline: Feb. 7.
• Steve Almond at The Rumpus takes down the Katie Roiphe hetero-white-males-don’t-write- about-sex-because-they’ve-been-castrated-by-feminism essay. Nice.
• Tom Waits reads Bukowski.
• Interesting Q&A with Teddy Cruz, an architect obsessed with the informal architecture of the Tijuana/San Diego border zone: “The most inventive, progressive, experimental projects have not happened in China or the Emirates (where architecture is so often treated as an object or icon), but within the context of infrastructure, in Latin America.”
• Architect David Chipperfield knighted. (architecture.mnp.)
• A quarry turned into a performance space.
• That’s a lot of slut.