All-day reads

Painting pays. A New York Observer real estate note on "chic British painter" Cecily Brown, who'll be exhibiting at the MFA next month. ... MassDevelopment coughs up $30 million for the Children's Museum expansion. ... My favorite of Sarah's reasons to enjoy the Aerosmith show: The fact that they didn't play the execrable ``I Don't Want to Miss a Thing." ... Sorry for the low post rate this week. My employer is about to launch a site that I'll tell you about later and we've been a leeetle busy. And I've been prepping for my panel at the Beantown Jazz Fest. But I'll get to all your cards and letters as soon as I can. ... LATE ADDITION: I just got to this excellent Alex Beam column about Leonard Bernstein in Boston, and how he ended up not taking over the BSO. ...  And Geoff has all kinds of cool things on The Exhibitionist, including a new MIT Media Lab.