Sorry we were MIA for most of last week — we were arrested and tried for converting to Christianity. Whew! What a wacky couple of days! Thankfully, that’s all over with — it turned out to be all a crazy misunderstanding. We’ll post early this afternoon.

Dropped the ball this week on a couple days’ worth of posts, for which we are dreadfully ashamed. That’s just what happens when we hyperventilate, pass out, and hit our heads on the coffee table because we’re so excited about the Grammys.

Ok, that’s a lie. No one’s excited about the Grammys. But we’ll be back on the ball next week.

ADD finally returns from its long, somewhat boozy, indigestive winter’s nap on Tuesday, January 3. Check back tomorrow for our first post of 2006.

You will notice, starting today, that we’ve changed the design of Art Digest Daily. The new format allows for some more flexibility in the size and shape of image we can display for your viewing pleasure, and being a blog about art, it seems like actually seeing the stuff might be, you know, important. We hope you like it, but it’s not really up to you, is it?

But that brings us to the other exciting new development we’re implementing today, which is that commenting is now open on all our new posts. You are now welcome, and encouraged, to add your two or more cents at the end of each post, whether you agree or disagree with us, whether you want to write “neato” for the hell of it or compose a 4,000-word essay on the Freudian-Jungian juxtapositions in post-Futurist imagery of the Luxumbourgian interwar years. Write it in for your fellow readers to enjoy. Naturally, any hateful or defamatory language will be swiftly expunged, but other than that, go to town.

Thanks for reading, and keep on doing it. Tell your friends, and email The Editors at add /at/ artdigestdaily /dot/ com.

–ADD

Today is the feast day of St. Adomnan, which we mark around here by spending all day face down in a whole rhubarb pie.

We won’t leave you totally in the lurch, however; take a look at the following articles, provided without the usual pithy, totally unfounded opinion.

• The Financial Times, just like everyone else, says Asian art is hot. In this case, however, they have a dollar figure to prove it.
• The People’s Daily online reports the results of the second Beijing biennale, which no one outside the Chinese state media seems to have noticed.
• Professional supreme boob Antonin Scalia spars with Stephen Sondheim in bizarre debate over gov’t funding of the arts.

See you Monday, as per usual.

In this, the deepest depth of summer, we’ve decided to take a vacation and are away for the rest of the week. We’ll have a margarita for you.

-ADD

Ok, so someone was tipping cows at the server farm last night. Different, exotic technical difficulties persist today. We throw up our hands, and promise to post twice—twice!—tomorrow.

It’s not here yet, but it will be—the web’s best and most up-to-the-minute source of news about art for people who need to know. Every hour of every weekday, Art Digest Daily will tell you what you need to know about art, artists, galleries, museums, publications, movements, and trends. Blogging—an ugly word for a beautiful thing.

Stay tuned. We’ll be testing the site and getting things ready for the next few weeks.