The Digest. 09.23.08.

A painting by David Choe, in Manhattan. Plus: Images of the artist painting at Upper Playground’s new NYC outlet. (Photo by mikeion.)

• Kitty wigs. (Via Weary Gunfighter.)
• Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty is far from “saved,” reports Modern Art Notes. Plus, a report on the Salt Lake environment, which apparently is just loaded with mercury.
• Dallas parents freaked out by PBS’s Art21 profiles of Kara Walker and Sally Mann. The docs are used as a middle school teaching supplement.
• The Liverpool Biennial is kind of a mishmash, says the Guardian‘s Adrian Searle.
• Anish Kapoor’s house. Looks expensive.
• Van Gogh’s color palettes. (Via Kottke.)
• An audio slideshow about Creative Time’s Democracy in America project. Story here.
• In case you have an extra $35 million laying around: Edvard Munch’s vampire painting, Love and Pain, will go up for sale at Sotheby’s in November.
• Sit on Hercules’s face. And tell him that you love him.
• San Francisco: Putting that garbage to good use by turning it into art.
• New photos shed light on Robert Capa’s Death of a Loyalist Militiamen. The photo may have been taken during a training exercise that attracted the enemy’s attention. There is no doubt that the militiaman, however, died. (Via ArtInfo.)
• Chris Rock discusses Bill Clinton’s appearance on Letterman.
• The new Rubik’s Cube.
• Graff of the Day: AEC in Kiev. More here. And because all art seems to be on a poo kick right now.
• An interview with Blek le Rat, the guy to whom Banksy owes, well, everything. (Via NotCot.)
• The Bilbao Effect, v. 2.0. More images here (via A.J.).
• “Airport architects.” Designers who, “just like that, pushing their trolleys, they arrive, sign, pose, shake a couple of hands, and leave.” Or so says architect Andrew Todd. (Via Unbeige.)
• Photos from the Chilean pavilion at the Venice architecture biennale: The theme is I Was There, and for the project, Mauricio Pezo and Sofía Von Ellrichshausen created a display featuring miniature, tourist tchotchke-style reproductions of well-known buildings in Chile. The most revealing aspect of the exhibit is that most of Chile’s well-known buildings appear to be churches (though I can’t seem to find the miniaturized reproduction of Gustave Eiffel’s church in Arica).
• They should do this in every parking lot in America: install solar energy “trees.” Especially in Miami, where your car will go from zero to broiling in 0.6 seconds.
• Your moment of art industry politics.