If you do only one thing today, watch Marie Lorenz’s video, Capsize, over at WNYC.org. It’s opening as part of a solo exhibit tonight at Jack Hanley in NYC. Fucking amazing.

• “Don’t you ready made me you motherfucker.”
• Getty Museum chief decides to bolt; get’s a year’s pay. I need to get an arrangement like this. More in the NYT, LAT and MAN.
• The Frick gets a facelift. And it looks like pretty tight.
• The Whitney to get a foodie restaurant of its very own. I beg you: please make a dessert in the shape of the museum’s Breuer building.
• The Day in Unusual Juxtapositions: The end of an era for a George W. Bush-facilitated artists’ colony in Seattle.
• The pictures of war you’re not supposed to see: Conscientious rounds-up a couple of highly interesting posts on war photography.
• Jailhouse cookware. Insane.
• Now that we’re done making lists about 2009, we can concentrate on 2010: Future-of-art round-ups from Flavorpill and Paddy Johnson at the L Magazine.
• That is Priceless, old paintings with new captions. Nice. (Marshall Astor.)
• Alec Soth’s birthday in Vegas. Badass. (Eyeteeth.)
• The last days of Ernest J. Bellocq. (Toxico Cultura.)
• The Heinz Co. Tracing Book: Possible inspiration for Andy Warhol?
• Lady GaGa: Creative Director. Plus: GaGa, the new Hirst.
• Chanel samurai armor.
• Balloon dresses.
• Victorian infographics. (ackackack.)
• Snow flakes. (Eyebeam reBlog.)
• Today’s Street Art: Blu in Buenos Aires.
• G.M.L. — Graffiti Markup Language.
• Oh, naughty.

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• Permanent marker drawings of VHS tapes.
• Interpol now has a website database of stolen art. But you need to file an application before viewing its contents. (IIC.)
• The Art Industrial Average is: Flaccid. In related news: Art as investment. Seriously.
• The L.A. Times‘ Christopher Knight gives the blow-by-blow on the possibly fake Frida Kahlo archive – which, unlike most people, he’s actually seen.
• Exvotos.
• Your art in Times Square.
• Really enjoying Jen Bekman’s Tumblr.
• Want to do a DIY show using fallow real estate? Winkleman has a few tips.
• New York City’s cement trees.
• A round-up of fire look-out towers.
• A 3-D section of a termite mound, built to human scale, at London’s International Arts Pestival, celebrating “insects in art.” Like, totally gnarly.
• An interview with Robert Frank’s elevator girl. (Toxico Cultura.)
• Magnum photographer Martin Parr in talks to leave his collection of historic and contemporary British photos to the Tate and V&A.
• The art of street art photography.
• Today’s Street Art: Blu in Milan. (World’s Best.)
• A wonderful story by Christopher Hawthorne on the Prince, architecture and the federal stimulus program – and how they all come together.
• Slideshow: A gallery of Peter Zumthor’s buildings, as shot by Helene Binet.
• Now those are some nicely framed views: A house in Otake by Suppose Design Office. Don’t miss this pic.
• Your moment of Trixie Friganza. (Gracias, Bloggy.)

There is something about the crunch of boots on gravel that I find indescribably appealing. It’s something I associate with being a kid, when, every evening, I’d hear the sound of my dad’s pick-up pulling up outside our house, followed by the percussion of his boots all the way up our gravel driveway — and I knew that it was time to eat. (I was born hungry.) Which is why I was so excited to run into Sadegh Tirafkan‘s video piece, Persepolis Part II in the Ancient Iran galleries at the L.A. County Museum of Art. 

The piece consists of two monitors, each with video of Tirafkan walking silently through the ruins of Persepolis, the ancient Persian capital. The video is rather dreamlike: the two images of the artist continually walk deliberately towards each other, but never meet. And all that is audible is the scraping sound of his feet on dry rock. It transforms the gallery, which is filled with lifeless shards of ancient pottery, into something more dynamic (if nostalgic).

If you happen to be popping into the museum to check out Art of Two Germanys, a detour to the Ahmanson building to check this out is totally worthwhile. The installation will be up through March.

In other news: I’ve got a lot going on workwise, so I’m cutting The Digest back to four days a week, Monday through Thursday. Thanks for reading, xox, C.

• Amazing photo essay: A gallery of Olan Mills family portraits (via WBE). And after you’re done with that, check this out.
• New York ComicCon starts tomorrow: Stan Lee will get a legends award. Plus: a story about who owns the characters in comics.
• BLDGBLOG has an interesting post about the sounds of cities.
• Book painting by Mike Stilkey.
• Hot crap on a nugget! James Frey—of I-made-up-most-of-my- memoir-and-got-a-new-one-torn-on-Oprah fame—is part owner of a new NYC gallery.
• Old Yosemite slides. (Via Coudal.)
• The Daily Show on how U.S. gummint leaders worked out, to the last detail, torture interrogation techniques for high-value targets.
• A report on the Glasgow International art show, which will soon likely morph into a biennial.
• Art Cologne starts today.
• Tate exhibits multi-million dollar painting—The Sleep of Arthur in Avalon by Edward Burne-Jones—that it could have bought years ago for £1,000.
• Photos from Camilo Cruz’s show at the Constant Gallery in L.A.
• Photo Essay: The most expensive restoration of stained glass in the U.S., now underway at St. Thomas in NYC.
• Sotheby’s stock needs Viagra.
• The NYT’s blog The Moment discovers the great big Internets by making the following sweeping declaration: “The Web is not just for pornography anymore.” Thank god they cleared that up or I’d be spending the morning watching free outtakes of Butt Bangers VIII…
• The frying pan sculpture at the Culinary Institute of America in San Antonio.
• Photo Essay: The work of Magnum photographer Burt Glinn, who passed away last week. (Dear Slate Online Producers: Any chance you could get rid of the flashing ads for the purpose of photo essays? The bouncing M&Ms make it damn near impossible to appreciate Glinn’s austere images…)
• When commercials imitate cheap horror movies. (The jingle’s catchy though…) (Via NotCot.)
• In related news: Bento lunches as album covers.
• Graff of the Day: Raisin in Nantes, France.
• Graffiti Research Lab in Time.
• “The Audacity of Pope.”
• Your moment of Pee and Poo.

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Cassie by Korin Faught, from her solo show at Corey Helford. Photos by Vidalia.

We here at C-Monster.net appreciate nothing more than beautiful paintings devoted to moody brunettes. Giving us a resplendent eyeful is painter Korin Faught, who had her first solo show at the Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City, Calif. this past weekend. Dear Korin: Please call us whenever you need fresh models. We may not be this luscious, but we are definitely brunette. The show runs until April 19th.

More money shots after the jump.

Constellation, by Korin Faught.

Birdcage.

Mia.

Opening night at Corey Helford for Faught’s solo show, Twenty-two.

Adelle Twice.

Struggle.

Mask.

Sleeping.

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