Morning reading etc., on toast

A reminder, the New England Americana Festival starts tonight. Tonight's headliner is Kingsley Flood. ... I was surprised to see Sebastian Smee's piece on the Whitney Biennial on page one of the Globe, until I started reading. He's hating on it. ... Greg Cook reports on yet another museum with money troubles, this time the Center for Maine Contemporary Art. Who knew. ... I also caught up kinda belatedly with Cook's Phoenix piece on photography of the Combat Zone. (Slide show here.) WBUR has a page on the same exhibit, complete with audio from the photographers and a lively comments section.