Will Gompertz relates how Joseph Beuys convinced him of the power of conceptual art.Guardian View full entry
Our friends at Odopod, the architects-turned-interactive-designers profiled in our Working Out of the Box feature, have just launched their new website and it's hot! View full entry
Miru Kim is a photographer and filmmaker with a love of the new and unknown. In her best-known body of work, the Naked City Spleen series, she investigates left-behind industrial spaces, infiltrates them with her camera, and then photographs herself in the space, nude. TED Talks View full entry
Bolivia is unearthing a dark part of its past. The left-wing government of Evo Morales has recently discovered what his government calls "the horror chambers" - torture cells found by chance when contractors uncovered blocked off hallways in the basement of the Ministry of the Interior.BBC News View full entry
1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion. 2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done. 3. There is no editing stage. Want to know how Bre gets so much stuff done? Read the other ten points of the manifesto and a hat-tip to sevensixfive View full entry
An exploration of radical abstraction infused with political purpose led Russian artists in the years following Bolshevik revolution the into design, film and architecture. The resulting work is full of emotional energy. Telegraph View full entry
Some media executives are growing concerned that the increasingly popular curators of the Web that are taking large pieces of the original work — a practice sometimes called scraping — are shaving away potential readers and profiting from the content. NYT View full entry
Christian Faur creates pictures using thousands of crayons as wax pixels.Telegraph View full entry
In light of the scale of Israel's twenty-two-day attack on Gaza in December 2008-January 2009 - which killed 1,300 people and damaged or destroyed about 15% of all its buildings, writes Eyal Weizman -- The emerging landscape of "lawfare" allows military operations to remake international... View full entry
Among them, "I", "we", "who", "two", "three" and "five" | BBC View full entry
The tide of gentrification that transformed economically depressed enclaves is receding, leaving some communities high and dry. NYT View full entry
A small exhibition of architecture zines from the 90s and 00s will open at the Pinkcomma gallery in Boston this Friday, March 6th. Be there for the opening and catch the panel discussion with 'necter Quilian Riano and others from 7-8pm. View full entry
From intelligent transportation systems to smart bridges, technology that could make infrastructure safer and more efficient is ready just in time for a flood of government spending.BusinessWeek View full entry
Duncan Kennedy visits the "indoor slum" previously featured here. The building contains a cardboard city where over 600 migrants live in conditions described by international aid agency, Doctors without Borders as "hell on earth".BBC Video View full entry
But not without controversies. For example:Two Qing dynasty bronze animal heads, a rabbit and a rat, originally looted from an imperial palace in China but purchased legally! China has demanded their return, but Mr. Bergé, the 'fehnished' YSL's surviving partner said: “They are my... View full entry