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Here’s to good times: Old Crow in S.F. (Photo by RFullerRD.)

• Hot shit on a shingle! C-Monster.net got a plug in today’s NY Times on the topic of Gallerie Pulaski!! My quest for world domination continues…
• Espo (a.k.a. Steve Powers) wants to waterboard 50 lawyers. Why stop at 50?
• Trippy trees by Anelia Lazaroff.
• In the wake of Cheech Marin’s Chicano Visions: LACMA should abandon one-collector shows because it shows no curatorial spine, says the L.A. Times. (I can’t help but opine on this: I agree that the Chicano Visions show is weak in many ways. But I think it’s a show that is still worth seeing—though the museum sure coulda done a better job hanging the thing, and Knight is right, it coulda used some serious context. But seeing as the museum is showcasing art from a single collector on the three giganto floors at BCAM, the small corner that Marin gets (next to the kid’s activity center) doesn’t seem like much in comparison. Moreover, BCAM shows the same globalized stable of artists that you see in contemporary institutions everywhere: Warhol, Koons, Hirst, Sherman, Holzer, blah blah blah blah blah. Is Chicano Visions comprehensive? No. But I’ll venture to say that Marin’s show does more to further knowledge of art in L.A. than BCAM does. The exhibit presents artists—Gronk, Frank Romero, Carlos Almaraz, Patssi Valdez, Los Four, and many others—who are an integral part of the city’s fabric. And not just the piece of it that lies west of the 405.) Stay tuned for a report on my LACMA visit later this afternoon…
• A Renaissance-era sculpture by Andrea della Robbia fell off its perch at the Met and shattered.
• Former Met director Thomas Hoving to contribute to ArtNet.
• BYU’s art collection: Not very well managed. (Via MAN.)
• Very Vegas: Peter Greenaway does a light show on Da Vinci’s Last Supper (includes video). More here.
• Photo Essay: Tamir Sher’s Mars-inspired shots of Tel Aviv.
• A video profile on Mika Rottenberg, the sculptor and video artist who created that bizarre goat-shed video installation at the Whitney Biennial that was totally Matthew Barney meets Big Love.
• There’s douche-y-ness afoot at Pace Wildenstein.
• This explains everything about the art industry: Your imagination affects your visual perception. (Via Eyebeam.)
• Graff of the Day: Run and Dem in Livorno, Italy.
• From the Department of Making-an-Ass-of-Myself: A clip from a documentary series called Wet Heat (not what you’re thinking), in which I yammer on about getting therapized by Bert Rodriguez at the Whitney. Far more worthy of everyone’s time: the interview with Vito Acconci.
• Santiago Calatrava’s roof at the PATH terminal in downtown Manhattan will remain closed due to budget constraints. Previously, the roof was to open and close.
• Photos of architecture from the London Festival of Architecture. (Follow the link to the photo essay.)
• Eero Saarinen building at the University of Chicago is restored. (Could someone at the Trib’s website have thought to include a picture with this story???)
• Great photos of Zaha Hadid’s Zaragoza bridge pavilion.
• Designer glasses make you artistic.
• Your moment of Sam Cooke singing with Muhammad Ali.