Artnet has a nice weekend update from New York. I also agree, Brice Marden's work seems to have been made to fill museums rather than inhabit them like Ellsworth Kelly's paintings do. Marden makes the kind of stuff you fall in like with.

Portland Architecture chimes in on Randy Gragg's interesting POVIC article last Friday. I agree a museum is the right thing to do but what kind of museum?

Regina Hackett wrote about the crisis of confidence in newspaper art writing. Don't get me started but I see a huge difference between most journalists and effective cultural discussion. In Portland a lot of people don't bother to read visual arts coverage in some printed publications anymore and Portlanders L O V E to read! Note to Portland editors, PORT's readership is going through the roof and Regina Hackett herself is consistently read by most serious Seattlites (and more than a few Portlanders). I love how she is publishing letters on her blog too.