I swear, this is the last you’ll hear from me today. Sorry for hogging the screen this morning, there’s just a bunch of good stuff out there.

1. I found out Friday there’s a webcam on the construction at the Olympic Sculpture Park on the Elliott Bay waterfront. It’s only slightly more interesting than watching paint dry, but at least you can get a look-see. (There used to be a webcam on the SAM building expansion, but that’s down now that the work is restricted mostly to interiors, and the museum wants to keep those a surprise until the 2007 opening.) The last I heard, the sculpture park was set to open in October. A museum spokeswoman this morning told me a firm date for the opening will be announced this week.

2. The great new blogger CultureGrrl (Lee Rosenbaum of the New York Times, Art in America, etc fame) has her own anecdotes about the Iraqi-born star architect Zaha Hadid, about whom Nicolai Ouroussoff raved in his review of her Guggenheim retrospective this weekend.

I went into Ouroussoff’s piece an admirer of Hadid’s architecture (from afar: her first American building, a contemporary arts center in Cincinnati, opened in 2003, and I haven’t been there yet, let alone to her other far-flung creations), but I did not know she was a full-fledged painter with an affinity for Russian constructivism:

(Guggenheim press contact this morning says the show, Hadid’s first US retrospective, isn’t traveling.)

3. Jim Demetre points out this morning on Artdish that Seattle sculptor Cris Bruch has a new show up at Elizabeth Leach in Portland. Bruch’s work is always worth traveling for. The last show of his I saw was in April in Tacoma, where a series of trashcan lids punched with holes that spelled messages in cursive were lit from beneath and glowed in a take on the illuminated manuscript (and, according to the press release, a return to his socially invested work of the 1980s). This new piece is called Longest Shortest Distance:

Until now, Bruch hasn’t had gallery representation in Seattle, but that will change this fall, when he shows at the eagerly anticipated space The Lawrimore Project.

Which leads us to …

4. Scott Lawrimore, formerly of Greg Kucera Gallery, has been working for months renovating his own space in a building south of downtown that once housed a sign-painting company. The space is highly psychological—Lawrimore asked me not to spoil the opening by saying much more—and designed by the Seattle artist-architect team Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo, aka Lead Pencil Studio (of last year’s Minus Space exhibition at the Henry). Now for the news: Opening night of the Lawrimore Project’s first show, by performance trio SuttonBeresCuller, is June 22. The three artists will actually be spending the opening closing themselves in a box where they’ll spend the entirety of their show making what they’ll show at the closing party a few weeks later.

If Lawrimore can “get things cleaned up around here,” then he’ll open the space to the public before then, on the night of Friday the 16th through Sunday the 18th. The architectural design is worth its own spotlight.