Edward Winkleman has some great advice for anyone that wants to achieve anything. If any project is truly worthwhile it's worth letting it develop on its own time table, rather than merely calibrating for the moment.

Zaha Hadid's pavilion in Millennium Park (Chicago) looks great.

Kenneth Johnson at the NYT's looks at what happens when a museum tries to reflect assumed sociological content in its collection instead of being cutting edge. It's sometimes a problem in our part of the country when institutions hedge on so callled Northwest Art (usually with some overwhelming nod to craft and nature). I'd counter that it's much broader than that (especially in Portland, Seattle and Vancouver BC) it's just easier to perpetuate the stereotype on an institutional and critical level than to challenge it.