The Digest. 01.08.10.

Tastes Like Gold, by the Seventh Letter Crew in Los Angeles. (Photo by Vidalia.)

If you do only one thing today, watch Marie Lorenz’s video, Capsize, over at WNYC.org. It’s opening as part of a solo exhibit tonight at Jack Hanley in NYC. Fucking amazing.

• “Don’t you ready made me you motherfucker.”
• Getty Museum chief decides to bolt; get’s a year’s pay. I need to get an arrangement like this. More in the NYT, LAT and MAN.
• The Frick gets a facelift. And it looks like pretty tight.
• The Whitney to get a foodie restaurant of its very own. I beg you: please make a dessert in the shape of the museum’s Breuer building.
• The Day in Unusual Juxtapositions: The end of an era for a George W. Bush-facilitated artists’ colony in Seattle.
• The pictures of war you’re not supposed to see: Conscientious rounds-up a couple of highly interesting posts on war photography.
• Jailhouse cookware. Insane.
• Now that we’re done making lists about 2009, we can concentrate on 2010: Future-of-art round-ups from Flavorpill and Paddy Johnson at the L Magazine.
• That is Priceless, old paintings with new captions. Nice. (Marshall Astor.)
• Alec Soth’s birthday in Vegas. Badass. (Eyeteeth.)
• The last days of Ernest J. Bellocq. (Toxico Cultura.)
• The Heinz Co. Tracing Book: Possible inspiration for Andy Warhol?
• Lady GaGa: Creative Director. Plus: GaGa, the new Hirst.
• Chanel samurai armor.
• Balloon dresses.
• Victorian infographics. (ackackack.)
• Snow flakes. (Eyebeam reBlog.)
• Today’s Street Art: Blu in Buenos Aires.
• G.M.L. — Graffiti Markup Language.
• Oh, naughty.