The Digest. 05.11.09.

Pumpkins, by Yayoi Kusama at Gagosian Gallery, through June 27. (Photo by C-M.)

• Trekkies Bash New Star Trek film as ‘Fun, Watchable.’ (architecture.mnp.)
• The beauty of rotting fruit and a taxidermied crow. (NotCot.)
• SFMOMA’s rooftop sculpture garden opens. Related to the opening, an interview with Ellsworth Kelly. KQED has a photo essay, including a tasty shot of the garden café’s Thiebaud-inspired cakes. (MAN.)
• In Miami, a new MOCA show is all about relational aesthetics. Or getting patrons to do crazy shit with their homes.
• National Gallery to receive emergency funding for repairs on its I.M. Pei-designed building. (Arts Journal.)
• The Saltz-master on the Met’s Pictures Generation show: “…it was a crackling time, and appropriation is too nice a word for how potent this style still is: Stealing and ransacking convey the atmosphere much better.”
• Art dealing: Now it’s all about old school.
• A Leonardo codex prepares to go public.
• When things alight.
• The art of Penguin science fiction. My favorite. Reminds me of the Cadillac Ranch in Texas. (Coudal.)
• Robots that make art out of shouting. (Arts Journal.)
• The Bat Segundo Show interviews Atom Egoyan. Interesting fact: he’s into airports.
• Highlights from the U.S. Pole Dancing Championships. Fascinating.
• Word on the street.
• Today’s Street Art: 0331c in Russia.
• An undulating brick wall built by a robot.
• Nicolai Ourosoff takes on Calatrava’s transit hub at the World Trade Center site: “The result is a monument to the creative ego that celebrates Mr. Calatrava’s engineering prowess but little else.” Yowza.
• As it undergoes as makeover by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Lincoln Center turns 50. More here.
• For those who delight in the bashing of anything built after 1700: Prince Charles is giving a talk at the Royal Institute of British Architects tomorrow.
• Your moment of subway announcements. (@sashafrerejones.)