The Digest. 01.27.10.

Siddartha, by Doze Green, at Jonathan LeVine in NYC. (Photo by C-M.)

• LACMA’s Reading Room now offers out-of-print catalogues, online.
• Whoa! Super congrats to Art Fag City and Animal New York for making it onto the  Village Voice’s best Gotham bloggas list!
• Hyperallergic has an excellent round-up of what’s going down with Haiti’s cultural institutions in the wake of the earthquake.
• How to fix a ripped Picasso. More on the possible repair job in the NYT. Plus: Ed Winkleman proposes his own hilarious solution to the problem. (Arts Journal.)
• Eli Broad’s museum might end up in downtown L.A. But then again it might not. An aside: Seriously dude, the last thing that town needs is another giant institution that everyone has to sit in traffic to get to. I seriously think that anyone cooking up culture in LA should take a long hard look at the realities of their city’s landscape and think about devising a new model. How ’bout little Eli Broad mini-museum franchises all over the southland? It’d make way more sense.
• Radiovisual – a contemporary art podcast. Damn good. What I learned: Thurston Moore has great teeth. (Art Fag City.)
• ArtForum miscellany.
• Movie made by chimps to air on the BBC. I smell biennial!!! (Eyeteeth.)
• Seriously stonerrific: The Super K Sonic Booooum. I want one in my house.
• How to draw Girlie Cartoons.
• Annie Sprinkle will be hosting an erotic cake contest at The Lab in S.F. for Valentine’s Day. Cannot wait to see the photos.
• Retouching before Photoshop.
• Shepard Fairey facing criminal investigation in AP case.
• Today’s Graff: Tosco in Lisbon.
• A super trippy video on augmented reality. Love the ’70s Farrah poster.
• Architecture porn: 16 Miles has luscious photos of the Santiago Calatrava railway station in Liège.
• Junkitechture.
• Guns and roses.