The Digest.02.10.10.

All About That, by Gabriel Shaffer, at the Berenberg Gallery booth at the Outsider Art Fair in NYC last week. (Image courtesy of Shaffer.)

• Art museum toilets. (@QueensMuseum.)
• The Art Industrial Average is Flaccid: Downturn in college art faculty hiring. (Arts Journal.)
• Glad to see they’re doing something useful: Art school grads getting into tattooing. (@giovannigf.)
• On that unenforceable Tino Sehgal image ban.
• Jerry Saltz is making little girls cry. Sorta related: Tyler Green says John Yau deserves a closer read in the whole Saltz/Yau smackdown.
• Winter Olympians as photographed by Ryan McGinley. ‘Cuz even Olympians can be moody in an early millennium kind of way. (World’s Best Ever.)
• Richard Lacayo on Patti Smith’s prose.
• Vincent Van Gogh letters go digital.
• Bernard-Henri Lévy is the “laughing stock of the Left Bank” for quoting a fictional philosopher in a rant about Kant. This makes me chuckle as much as that trite-awful travelogue he wrote about the U.S. a few years back. (Seriously, Sharon Stone as a source of cultural insight? I Kant stop laughing. LOL.) (@hragv.)
• In L.A.: Dan Savage and Bek at the Hammer tonight.
• “There is no culture here, only trash.” — Philip K. Dick on California.
• A river of mud.
• Skating Uganda. It’s worth watching the video. (@SamSifton.)
• The Photos of Chris Mottalini: Last “portraits” of Paul Rudolph structures before they are demolished. If you live in Auburn, Al. this looks like a show to see.
• Psychology Today analyzes why those hipsters in Unhappy Hipsters are so unhappy — and blames it on modernism.
• RIP Waffle House architect Clifford Nahser.
• A hotel that looks like a honeycomb.
• Burj Khalifa observation deck has been shut down after trapping tourists at the top.
• Audio Slideshow: On the life and work of Eero Saarinen.
• Godzilla pussycat.