The Digest. 10.20.08.

Patroclus, 1780, by Jacques-Louis David. (Image courtesy of lyceo hispanico.)

• Curiouser and curiouser: my doppelgangers at the L.A. Times have linked to C-Mon — without mentioning my nom de blog.
• I heart Hopey.
• NYC’s chashama is having a benefit masquerade party next week, on Tuesday, October 28th. Get your costume and pick up some tickets to help support subsidized studio and gallery spaces for emerging artists in New York!
• Art sells at Frieze. But the fair wasn’t the buy-a-thon of previous years. More here and here.
• Museums brace for lean days. Except for the Harvard Art Museum, which just gotta wad cash and 31 major works of art, including three Picassos.
• Whitewashed David Alfaro Siqueiros mural on Olvera Street in L.A. may be restored and unveiled by 2010.
• How contemporary Colombian artists have covered the issue of violence.
• Because the world needs more artspeak: The Serpentine asks artists to pen manifestos. (Via A.J.)
• When narcissists meet, Vanessa Beecroft/Kanye West edition.
• Breasts in art.
• A park as beating heart. Literally.
• UBS’s financial woes is gonna mean a much quieter Art Basel. (Via AFC.)
• Mel Chin’s Safehouse.
• Today’s Graff: a truck by Revok in San Francisco.
• Santiago Calatrava stops work on Chicago Spire until somebody shows him the money.
• The architecture industry, like the rest of the economy, in the toilet.
• Princess Zaha’s giant clam arrives in Central Park.
• Dubai, swimming in its own shit. Literally.
• The Day in Horizontal Lines: David Chipperfield’s America’s Cup Building in Valencia, Spain.
• Frank Lloyd Wright House in California is up for sale. For only $2.7 million!
• Your moment of Amy Poehler rapping about Sarah Palin.