The Digest. 01.25.10.

All This And More, by Marc Johns. (Image courtesy of Marc Johns.)

• No kicking penguins.
• Hoping, praying, hoping that the art industrial average is rising out of the pooper. (@russelltrombone)
• Woman at the Met falls on a Picasso – tears him a new one. (@hyperallergic.)
• Ed Belbruno, astrophysicist/painter. I love his website.
• Art21 has been doing some fascinating segments on the people who fabricate art. This week: the guy who makes Paul McCarthy’s kinky animatronic sculptures.
• Bauhaus tapestries.
• The sculptural possibilities of urinals (beyond your everyday ready-made). (@russelltrombone)
• The stray dogs of Moscow. (BLDGBLOG.)
• Tweets as classic books. (Art Fag City.)
• Help Studio 360 redesign Valentine’s.
• A little 1970 manga: Desert Eyeball, by Maki Sasaki.
• Banksy’s Park City, Utah pieces have been getting the buff.
• Today’s Street Art: The wire sculptures of Spenser Little in San Diego. More here.
• La Puerta: A stop-motion animation by Limow and Sam3.
• Unemployed architects improvise new gigs.
• Brooklyn-based SO-IL will be doing the install — called Pole Dance — at P.S. 1 this summer. See trippy-weird schematic video here.
• In Chicago: a cast iron decoration by Louis Sullivan gets a freshening up.
• New building by the Dark Lord Foster opens in Racine.
• McDonald’s new burgers in Japan: the Big American. Be sure to watch the video.