The Digest. 10.15.08.

Because I’m feeling sporty this week: Ring of Honor, by Seattle artist John Schuh. See it large. (Image courtesy of Schuh.)

• When product placement fails. Miserably. (Via Steve Lambert.)
• Today is Election Day. In Canada.
• The Walker Center has some rad politically-inspired buttons. Oh, to be in Minneapolis. Sort of related: Hitchens endorses Obama. 
• Stuff to do in London during Frieze. Besides buy, buy, buy. Related: ArtInfo wonders what’s happened to all those satellite fairs.
• Forget the Tate’s Turbine Hall, says Jonathan Jones at the Guardian. If you want real inspiration, go see Richard Serra at Gagosian.
• What a K-Hole: Victoria Miro gallery in London is turned into a gay nightclub. 
• **Sublime Art Story of the Week:** Pieter Hugo photograph causes racial kerfuffle at Hollywood talent agency.
• L.A.’s Chinatown galleries are in flux.
• Curators as models. For reals.
• CultureGrrl reports on the estrogen-fest going on in American museums. Just don’t call the phenomenon “girly,” she says. Well, what about grrly?
• TEXTile, 2006 by Jean Shin. (Via NotCot.)
• Strangely, the whole thing works: Photos of Jeff Koons at Versailles. (Via Marshall Astor.)
• The National Art Museum of China is to get a big-ass new building next to the Bird’s Nest.
• The Day in Neon: Robert Irwin’s Light and Space III at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. (I took the hint from Richard McCoy’s Twitter.)
• Take a poll to decide whether Olafur Eliasson’s Waterfalls “sucked big time” or were “the best thing ever.” (Via Hrag Vartanian.)
• Monsters from 19th century Japanese newsprints.
• Today’s Graff: The latest from Blu.
• Chicago’s Humanities Festival to examine 100 years of Chicago’s urban plan and global cities of the future in two separate panels on Nov. 2nd.
• The pendulum continues to swing against starchitecture. (Via A.J.)
• A house within a house within…: House N by Sou Fujimoto Architects in Oita, Japan.
• Your moment of Bang Bang. (Thank you, Yvonne!)