You can't make this stuff up: The Globe reports that Shepard Fairey, whose iconic posters are plastered everywhere these days, was arrested while about to enter the ICA, which is hosting an exhibit of his work. Those pesky outstanding warrants reared their ugly heads, although police were unable/unwilling to tell the paper just what they were for.

Ginny Delany, 27, a graduate student from Cambridge, said, "It makes him even more of a hero to me."

Greg Cook reports an ICA tour guide bumped into the pedestal used to display Joe Zane's glass sculpture "Tulip Head," sending the $7,000 work crashing to the floor and shattering it into a zillion pieces. With photos of the original work and the replacement vase the artist was able to make.

Geoff Edgers provides the photographic proof that the architect of the new ICA lost out on some award because the winner has a bigger cantilever.

Just doesn't measure up:

Jerry reaches out and touches - a giant parrot.

Mike Mennonno reviews the "Super Vision" exhibit at the new ICA:

... "Super Vision" is an excellent example of bad, bossy curating. ...

Also, it reminds him to urge all men over 50 to get a yearly rectal exam.

Evan, however, loves the new museum (and has the photos to prove it):

... The exhibits were amazing...I definitely cannot wait to go back to see the place during a less crowded time.

Dec. 10 for the new museum, Geoff Edgers reports.

Joel Brown notes the construction delays mean the opening conflicts with a big contemporary-art show in Miami: I'm kind of surprised no one has been sued yet.

OK, call us nuts, but we had dinner at Anthony's Pier 4 tonight. I know, I know, nobody eats there anymore, at least not anybody who lives inside 128 (and indeed, our waitress seemed a bit surprised when she asked us where we were from and we said "here!" and, yes, we were surrounded by parents bringing their kids to school and Japanese businessmen and, based on the White Sox cap one of them was wearing, people from the Midwest). But it was good - good food and good service (although we didn't order any wine; the people next to us ordered wine to go with their calamari, the wine didn't come, the waitress said she couldn't bring it and when they asked if she could send over the wine steward, the guy took his time and then slowly walked over and said "can I help you?" as if the people were disturbing him somehow and as if the restaurant weren't mostly empty).

In any case, there are some great views from the restaurant and its pier. The Deer Island sewage treatment plant (above), normally gray, gray and more gray, turned a nice orangish shade for a couple of minutes at sunset. And the new ICA is quite dramatic at night:

Big Red and Shiny raises the question in a survey of Boston-area art galleries:

... It remains to be seen what impact the new ICA building on the waterfront will have as developers scramble to create new gallery-friendly spaces in the area, and whether or not we will see the sort of exodus that took place a few years ago among Newbury Street galleries as SoWa grew. ...