The Digest. 01.20.10.

My mom and her boyfriend, by LaToya Ruby Frazier. (Image courtesy of CultureHall.)

• Finches play avant garde rock. Effing amazing.
• A work of art that places itself on e-Bay every seven days. (Hat tip, @russelltrombone.)
• Can collectors have their art and lend it too? Covered in this NPR report: Don Fischer/SFMOMA, Eli Broad/LACMA and Dakis Joannou/New Museum. Excellent piece.
• St. Peter’s painted-over privates causing all manner of scandale at the Vatican.
• Ben Davis at ArtNet does a most excellent job of rounding up illicit photos of Tino Sehgal pieces — and wonderfully deconstructing Sehgal’s no-photo policy. Best line: “Sehgal is into light bondage; a whiff of brainy sadism runs through his oeuvre.”
• Deitch gets a big ol’ profile in the LAT. Interesting fact: he hasn’t driven a car in 40 years. My prediction: he’ll be doing the Tokyo Drift within a year.
• A replica Ferus Gallery.
• A super groovy Yayoi Kusama 1967 video round-up. Am now afflicted with strange urge to put leaves on a naked guy.
• The Getty is on Flickr.
• Art in a Box.
• The Mona Lisa in coffee. Plus: In the same post, Regina Hackett does an art industry smackdown on Tyler Green. Juicy.
• “Rebel Artist’s Tragic Ending.”
• ¡Graffiti World Smackdown! Robbo vs. Banksy, the Sequel.
• Today’s Street Art: Hello Kitty Chemical Factory.
• A robot tagger.
• Frank Gehry withdraws from Museum of Tolerance project.
• This house in Estonia kinda brings to mind Tara Donovan’s toothpick cube as described by the LAT’s Christopher Knight.
• The Oscar Meyer Wiener Mobile dog bed. Oh yes.