Portland Architecture has weighed in on the Hybrid Bridge model for the Willamette we gave you a peek at last weekend. It seems like the consensus is the Trimet process hasn't taken design seriously enough, even though that bridge over the Willamette is likely to become a major symbol for the city. I can say PORT has gotten image requests for the seemingly out of the running wave design and none for the other options.

If you want some cultural blood sport, Tyler Green's play by play over deacessioning between Christopher Knight and Donn Zaretsky. My feelings about this are that museum deacessioning should only occur if it if the work is unrelated or secondary to the Museum's primary focus and or the museum already has significant holdings of that artist rendering the work a second class citizen. Deacessioning should be rare and done to support the museum's mission... which is not the case with The Rose, which is just a money grab.... pure and simple.

Richard Speer reviews Matt King's Science Diet at Fourteen30 with panache. It is one of the best shows in Portland right now.

And filed under "why repeat the effort": C-Monster has a great list of links to check out today.