Contemporary Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is making his public art debut with an installation of Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads right outside Central Park, across from the Plaza Hotel at Grand Army Plaza 5th Avenue and 60th Street.Contemporary Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is making his public art debut... View full entry
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Cameron Sinclair, of Architecture for Humanity, is featured on CNN about the planned reconstruction efforts in Japan. Watch View full entry
8.9. It is a big one. Tsunami happening! Watch it Live on Al Jazeera and USTREAM We hope our friends are safe. 8.9. It is a big one. Tsunami happening! Watch it Live on Al Jazeera and USTREAM We hope our friends are safe. View full entry
Last summer the Palm Springs Art Museum commissioned Plasmatic to create a video art piece to accompany their exhibit "Steel and Shade: The Architecture of Donald Wexler." They shot the video on location at three of Wexler's Palm Springs Houses. Plasmatic View full entry
Lovedog bites the Pragmatic Utopia: "AMBIGUITY" and"HEDONISTIC SUSTAINABILITY" with white on black slogan slides as presented. Superficial review of Steven Holl and Bjarke Ingels lectures in Los Angeles. "AMBIGUITY" by Steven HollDate and place:3/2/2011, SCI Arc, Los AngelesMain Material:Lecture... View full entry
Street art mecca Five Pointz is to be torn down and replaced with a $350m luxury highrise and mall. via huffpo View full entry
Our friend Guy Horton recently interviewed French street artist JR following his TED prize win. JR's wish is for people to participate in a global art project in which individuals paste large portraits of themselves in public, on buildings, wherever possible. Our friend Guy Horton recently... View full entry
A survey of 30 years of the peripatetic American artist and philosopher of social space opens at Eastside Projects in Birmingham, UK. Dan Graham at Regen Projects, Los Angeles. Photo, Orhan Ayyuce A survey of 30 years of the peripatetic American artist and philosopher of social space opens at... View full entry
In what amounts to a very scandalous situation involving public funds, Peter Noever, the all powerful director of MAK, a premier Austrian art organization based in Vienna, recently resigned from his post. The imminent legal investigation speculated to rock Austria's cultural establishment and send... View full entry
Apparently job-seekers attending a job fair in Sacramento were told that their chances of getting a job were much lower if they were currently unemployed. Apparently job-seekers attending a job fair in Sacramento were told that their chances of getting a job were much lower if they were currently... View full entry
As I'm sure most of you are aware, there was a devastating earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand yesterday. Latest reports estimate the death toll could reach 400. Architecture for Humanity's local NZ branch has issued an appeal, offering ways that you can help out. Christchurch is a town that... View full entry
"America why are your libraries full of tears? America when will you send your eggs to India? I’m sick of your insane demands. When can I go into the supermarket and buy what I need with my good looks?"youtube Music by Tom Waits America BY ALLEN GINSBERG America I’ve given you all and... View full entry
Check out LIES at the Art Center Wind Tunnel Gallery!This special evening of readings features an eclectic group of designers, artists and writers for whom writing or other narrative forms operate in a critical dialogue with visual practice. This event is part of MADE UP: Design's Fictions, an... View full entry
Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich orders plans for St Petersburg project, a mixed use palace of culture. The £250m project will be overseen by his girlfriend, Dasha Zhukova. Famous architects from the UK, France, the Netherlands, the US and Russia are invited to draw up plans. She will choose... View full entry