The Digest. 01.29.10.

Os Gemeos at Galleria Patricia Mocida in Milan. See more flix at Fecal Face. (Photo by *fab*.)

• The Six Most Statistically Full-of-Shit Professions: Art Critics come in at Number Four. (Hat tip to @russelltrombone.)
• RIP J.D. Salinger.
• This violates my unspoken rule of never ever linking to the Huffington Post, but I had to share it because of its radioactive levels of ridiculosity: Duke Riley writes to Hugo Chavez.
• The Art Nerds Are Trash Talkin’!! Museums betting paintings for the Super Bowl. Bring. It. On.
• The Getty gets a trove of Manuel Alvarez Bravo photos.
• Speaking of which…Flashback: J. Paul Getty, Playboy columnist. (@KnightLAT.)
• “But is it rubbish?” Brit artists trash their art.
• Rendering Fear: a round-up of al-Qaeda graphic design. Seems to me like a number of these pieces owe a debt to Hollywood movie posters.
• Snow sculptures of comics and cartoon characters.
• Incisive Reportage: We went to the vagina show and what did we see? Vaginas. (The rug, it brought the room together.)
• El Bulli to shut down for a coupla years. (My El Bulli dinner report from 2008 here.)
• And because I’m on a food kick: My guide to Lima eats in Budget Travel.
• Ziggy and the Spiders do the dining car.
• Steam tunnel music.
• Today’s Graff: Faif gets skaterrific in Spain.
• Poster Boy got popped.
• Unhappy hipsters.