An installation view of As He Remembered It, 2011, by Stephen Prina, at LACMA. On view through August 4. (Courtesy of Galerie Gisela Capitain and Petzel Gallery, New York.)

• Must-read interview: Jaron Lanier on how the internet has destroyed the middle class.
• Putting a visit to Noah Purifoy’s desert installations at the top of my SoCal bucket list.
• From the Department of I Heart the Art Market: “It is hard to imagine a business more custom-made for money laundering, with million-dollar sales conducted in secrecy and with virtually no oversight.”
• A proposal to redo LACMA — this time by Peter Zumthor. More here.
• As someone who grew up going to LACMA (not to mention the Tar Pits), I have a deep nostalgia for the Pereira buildings — design warts and all. But I suppose their memory will always be preserved in Ed Ruscha’s Los Angeles County Museum on Fire.
• Speaking of which, it sounds like MoMA is gonna think deeply about razing the Folk Art Museum before it razes it.
• Countdown on the Hirshhorn bubble: Will the museum’s puffy turquoise pavilion really happen?
• The first known painting of Southern California.
• Flashback: Peter Plagens’ cranky-pants L.A. rant published in Artforum in 1972 is all kinds of epic. (Mercy, Christopher Hawthorne.)
• Critical Theory Heads: The Pacific Northwest College of Art is looking for critical essays about stuff only 10 people care about. Winner takes home the Hannah Arendt prize and 5Gs. You’ve got ‘til the end of the month
• Plus: Create a work of virtual public sculpture. And make money. (If you win.)