Gripped by 8/8/08 fever? Us neither, but architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron are. The duo's design was chosen for Beijing's new Olympic Stadium, which is profiled tonight on National Geographic's Man Made. Of note: The superstructure can seat 91,000, and it looks like an enormous bird's nest made of twiglike beams. The architects say their inspirations include "a big pot" and "the Eiffel Tower." (Uh, sure.) Tune in—once August rolls around, you'll be too sick of the Games to care.
9 p.m., the National Geographic Channel

The Criterion Collection has announced plans to roll out editions of its films on Blu-ray come October. The initial movies on offer in the new format are indisputably Criterion-ish: Truffaut's The Four Hundred Blows, Godard's Contempt, and Roeg's Walkabout, among others. Also available? Wes Anderson's Bottle Rocket. We wonder if this new version will finally help us find the humor in Owen Wilson's performance—or if we'll have to wait for the Criterion Blu-ray Armageddon instead.

Zhang Huan took a break from performance art when he moved back to Shanghai from New York, but, judging from Blessings, which bows tonight, he's still interested in spectacle. (The artist garnered acclaim when he strapped on a Hulk suit hewn from steaks at the Whitney Biennial in 2002.) Giant No. 3 (pictured) is at PaceWildenstein's 25th Street location, a 15-foot Fome-Cor and cowhide sculpture Huan calls "irregular and chaotic." Meanwhile, over at the 22nd Street gallery, Huan takes on Mao's Great Leap Forward with Canal Building, an ash painting that sits atop a six-foot-tall slab of compressed temple incense flanked by a viewing bridge. Banned by the Shanghai Art Museum in February, the work depicts canal workers from a sixties-era propaganda photo. "I don't treat the burnt incense as a medium," says Huan. "It's a collection of souls, wishes, hopes, and dreams. For me it's very important to present something that combines the audience with minimalism, maximalism, sculpture, and performance." It's not a steak suit, but it's certainly a lot to digest.
Through July 25 at PaceWildenstein, 534 W. 25th St. and 545 W. 22nd St., New York, NY, (212) 929-7000 or (212) 989-4258, pacewildenstein.com

Now available: the only 1,470-piece, $8,600 Craftsman toolkit your dad will ever need.

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Received wisdom: Every time a journal is founded, a liberal arts student gets his wings. But among the prolific store of new magazines, we're actually looking forward to the debut of Dossier, founded by Katherine Krause and photographer Skye Parrott (who has shot for Details, GQ Style and Tokion). The debut issue features the usual roundup of art, culture and music—from heavy hitters like Francesco Clemente, Zac Posen, and Mark Ronson—but we're most excited about the journal's dedication to the world of food. Alice Waters, godmother of all things organic, is interviewed here, and Mario Batali contributes several haikus and a recipe. For the lower-minded, don't worry: It looks like there are plenty of arty nudes, too.
Dossier launches this month; for more information, go to dossierjournal.com

Klipsch's luxe new floor speakers are equal parts sound system and high-minded furniture, all finished in a zebrawood veneer. They come in three hues—natural, merlot, and espresso—to meld a state-of-the-art listening experience with an aesthetic that references a seventies rec room. In other words, Master of Reality has rarely sounded so expensive.
$20,000 per pair, available in June at klipsch.com

We wish all invitations were this informative.

Premiering tonight: Deathbowl to Downtown, a new documentary chronicling the rise of New York's skate scene. Narrated by—who else?—Chloë Sevigny, the film traces the movement to its roots in the seventies, following the sport as it intersected with the city's punk and hip-hop communities. Minor Threat and the Beastie Boys provide the soundtrack. "Skate culture comes from New York," says Rick Charnoski, one of the film's codirectors. "A bunch of misfits appropriated this thing from California, made it better, and sold it back to the West Coast." (Yes, we know: Them's fightin' words.) Deathbowl won't open to the public until fall, but those interested can quell their jones this weekend with an associated show of photographs at the Etnies Showroom in Manhattan. The Moving Image, curated by Ivory Serra, presents works by the likes of Martha Cooper, Patrick O'Dell, and Mike O'Meally (pictured), all of which place the emphasis squarely on attitude. Below, a preview of the film.

The Moving Image: A Photographic History of Skateboarding in New York City, May 10-11, at Etnies Showroom, 29 Grand St., New York, NY, (212) 604-9988, deathbowltodowntown.com

Our favorite aspect of last night's opening party for Rogan Gregory's new NYC store? Location-appropriate forties of Olde English emblazoned with the company's irrefutable slogan. And yes, they were cold.
Rogan, 330 Bowery, New York, NY, (646) 827-7567, rogannyc.com

Tom Sachs continually provokes controversy, as one might expect from an artist given to transforming Prada boxes into miniature death camps. He further cements his antagonist reputation today with a dozen outsize bronzes on view at Manhattan's Lever House. Weighing 18,000 pounds, his 21-foot-tall Hello Kitty replica (pictured) dominates the courtyard, while the lobby will host a pair of bronzed skateboard ramps, a bronzed dumpster, and three Donald Judd-esque battery sculptures (Duralast, Die Hard, and Trojan). "I always try to avoid the themes of art," says Sachs, who is also unveiling Animals, an exhibit of smaller-scale works, tomorrow at Sperone Westwater. "I imagine if you came into this world and you didn't know what a skateboard ramp was but you knew what a Donald Judd was it'd all make sense." Somehow it all does.
Tom Sachs: Bronze Collection, through Sept. 6 at Lever House, 390 Park Ave., New York NY, (212) 888-2700, leverhouse.com; Animals, through June 21 at Sperone Westwater Gallery, 415 W. 13th St., New York, NY, (212) 999-7337, speronewestwater.com