• L.A.: Daniel Joseph Martinez, I want to go to Detroit; Cheerleaders CHEER, at LaxArt. Through March 3.
• Detroit: Joshua White and Gary Panter’s Light Show, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. Opens Friday.
• Miami: Mary Ellen Mark: An American Odyssey, 1963-1999, at the Margulies Collection at the Warehouse. Through April 28, in the Wynwood District.
• Savannah: Leo Villareal, at the Jepson Center, one of the Telfair Museums. Through June 3.
• NY: We Are Cinema: 50 Years of the Filmmakers Co-op, at Microscope. Starts this Saturday at 5pm, in Bushwick.
• NY: Martin Bromirski, Rachel LaBine and Elizabeth Riley, at Storefront Bushwick. Opens Friday at 6pm.
• NYC: F*ck Art, street art meets sex, at the Museum of Sex. Opens today, in Manhattan.
• Plus: see my latest New York recommends over at Gallerina…

I know these are porcelain and that they’re hand-painted and that there’s four million of them (more on that here), but this install bears an uncanny resemblance to Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s silver-candy piece, Untitled (Placebo), from 1991 — which is currently on view at MoMA. And which can be touched and eaten.

• The New York Times has a story on Mexican narchitecture. And I’m supremely jealous I didn’t write it. Be sure to check out the splendiferous slideshow, complete with bullet hole façades and zebra-stripe furnishings.
• Speaking of which: The house where Pablo Escobar was gunned down is for sale.
• Bacteria as conservation tool.
• KCET Departures has just launched a highly intriguing online series about the laws (starting with the Laws of the Indies) that have shaped L.A.’s landscape. The second essay is on how helicopter landing pad laws have resulted in the city’s boxy architecture.
• It’s a bummer that Robert Smithson never got to build the land art pieces at DFW airport described in this essay. Would make landing in Dallas infinitely cooler. (See a design schematic here.)
• Late on this, but still important: Jeff Weinstein reminds us that Helen Frankenthaler helped gut the NEA.
• UNAM is putting the materials from their libraries and collections online. This is very cool.
• Set aside 11 minutes for this: An animation of a talk by psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist about the divided brain (with Andy Warhol/Banksy reference towards the end). Wow.
• It all rests on transformation: Some discussions about the Patrick Cariou versus Richard Prince copyright case (in which Prince was sued by another artist for copyright infringement). The NYT has an overview. Hyperallergic also has an explainer. Anyone else think that both sets of works are not at all interesting?
• Sort of related: Copying stuff is now a religion in Sweden.
• SPIN Magazine now reviewing albums on Twitter.
• Plus: Why authors Tweet.
• Maria Bustillos, on what makes a great critic.
• Which led me to this interesting Financial Times essay on literary criticism gone soft.
• Tumblrs to Follow: Preservationist Ryan Gosling and Museum Ryan Gosling. (San Suzie.)
• Today’s Graff: Would love to have Djalouz redo my bathroom.
• 10 pieces of trash-talking ancient graffiti.
• The story of Chinese food take-out containers.
• Ugly Renaissance Babies. (@rcembalest.)

I am belatedly uploading some of my pictures from my recent jaunt to California, where I got to poke around some of the Pacific Standard Time exhibits. I saw some true gems — among them the California light and space show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, which is a total perceptual mindfuck (not to mention, totally bud-worthy). Many of the pieces were all about the experience — namely, the tricks your eyes play on you — so taking pictures was often pointless, hence the limited number of images here.

If you go, be sure to spend some quality time inside Eric Orr’s Zero Mass (at the La Jolla location), a pitch black room that requires at least six minutes for your eyes to adjust — but once they do, good lord almighty! It’s like waking up from a weird dream in which everything emerges from a fog. Other highlights that will make you say Duuuuuude are Bruce Nauman’s Green Light Corridor, which will have you seeing magenta (also at La Jolla) and Robert Irwin’s Square the Room (at the downtown branch), in which a scrim and some white paint are used to create an absolutely mind-boggling optical illusion. While downtown, do not miss the paintings by Mary Corse, which contain subtle reflective surfaces that seem to change with every move you make in front of the canvas.

If you live in Cali, this exhibit is one of the PST must-sees. And yes, it is worth dealing with the parking lot otherwise known as the 5.

Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface is on view at both branches of MCASD (in La Jolla and downtown) through January 22.

This photo is not blurry. This sculpture – titled May 5, 1971 – by Peter Alexander was fabricated to look as if the pillars are blurring into the wall.

This is a show where you spend a lot of time looking at your hands. Above, James Turrell’s Stuck Blue, from 1970.

Playing with transparency and reflection: ST14, 1978, by Larry Bell.

More trippy lightness: Another piece from Wheeler, from 1965.

My slideshow of the Maurizio Cattelan exhibit at the Guggenheim is now online at WNYC.