The Digest. 11.06.08.

Salón Bicentenario at the Bibilioteca Nacional in Santiago, by A+F Arquitectos, at the Chilean Architecture Biennial. (Image courtesy of Plataforma Arquitectura.)

• The art industrial average, not so hot: Sotheby’s sales fail to meet initial estimates. Christie’s sales are also in the pooper. More here and here.
• AFC has a thoughtful post about the politics of representation and art, in which artist Nayland Blake discusses the American obsession with ethnic and cultural silos.
• Photographer Zoe Strauss does election night.
• The six most insane people to run for President. (ackackack.)
• Photo Essay: Paintings from photographs.
• Move mountains, fill rivers, fuck with nature as much as you can: A 2009 New Mexico-based organization is looking for land art proposals in the vicinity of Albuquerque.
• From the Department of Missed Opportunities: Tate coulda had a bunch of Rothkos, but they dropped the ball.
• Whoa! Crazy looking Maya Lin sculptures at the DeYoung.
• The University of Iowa to restore its Stephen Holl, flood-damaged art building. (MAN)
• Get dressed up like a pill and ride around downtown L.A. this weekend.
• LACMA trying to get a subway stop in front of its museum. Because then maybe people will visit.
• Penn, of Penn and Teller, talking about his extensive collection of Tony Fitzpatrick etchings. And the work of Kara Walker. Highly educational. (Anaba.)
• Gabriel Orozco talks about his abstract painted sculptures: Samurai Tree.
• Photo Essay: The Frieze Art Fair. (Juxtapoz.)
• Today’s Graff: Amsah & Vero in France.
• A curvy bench by Gehry Partners in Tokyo.
• Coop Himmelb(l)au’s L.A. High School #9. I saw this during the day, when it looked bubbly. At night, however, it seems to turn into a prison guard tower.
• Looks like a pile of logs: the Final Wooden House by Sou Fujimoto in Kumamoto.
• Your moment of Second Semester of Spanish, Spanish Love Song. (Thank you, Sean!)