Traveling from Japan to London, UC Santa Cruz art professor Dee Hibbert-Jones is capturing the emotions and memories of the inhabitants of international cities and putting them on display. "This creates an 'emotional mapping' of the city, allowing the listener to inhabit other travelers'... View full entry
It's not easy being a modernist in a town known for traditional architecture. For Stan Allen, an architect, and his wife, Polly Apfelbaum, an artist, finding a contemporary house in history-laden Princeton, N.J., was a process fraught with disappointment. NYT View full entry
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A video report painting a picture of the logistics surrounding homes that are foreclosed. They focus on the Inland Empire. Includes: House cleaners who, rather than sending things to charity, send the belongings in abandoned McMansions to the dump. Guys who go around cleaning out pools which have... View full entry
Michael Craig-Martin realized a "portrait of Zaha Hadid" which is in permanent change. The portrait is on display at the National Portrait Gallery, London... Another example that some STARchitects had become part of POP culture? El Pais: Spanish | English View full entry
In 1999, writer Orhan Pamuk bought a three story building in Istanbul to interact as a museum with his new novel, "Museum of Innocence," a first of this kind of hybrid application... He hired an architect, Ihsan Bilgin, before he started the novel to transform the building into a museum where the... View full entry
There's a "skating rink" of water ice a little more than 2 inches below the red soil. That surface soil itself seems so dry remains a mystery. SFC View full entry
Wired profiles the work of veterinarian Olivier Bertrand and Dutch conservationist Joep van de Vlasakker who hope to restore ancient European ecosystems through a process called rewilding. link The idea we learn is that...Ten thousand years ago, Europe belonged to megafauna: mammoths, bison... View full entry
Against a backdrop of reeling financial markets and nervous investors, Sotheby’s and the British artist Damien Hirst forged ahead with “Beautiful Inside My Head Forever,” a highly publicized auction of 223 works, all by Mr. Hirst and all made within the last two years. In a... View full entry
Columnist Marc Cooper writes to his daughter, "Yes, the labor union you work for represents nearly 2 million service workers — about three times the population of Alaska. But, alas, as Governor Palin pointed out, you have no real responsibilities. By helping janitors, security guards... View full entry
Santa Monica architects Hadrian Predock and John Frane attempt to encompass Southern California's entire Inland Empire using 750 fishing lines. Currently on show at the Pomona College Museum of Art. LA Times View full entry
New Yorkers, don't miss this: Starting September 11th, over one hundred local and international artists will transform New York City streets into a laboratory for exploring the urban environment at the Conflux Festival. Did someone say psychogeography? Yep. View full entry
America has invaded the gilded chambers and sculptured gardens of the Château de Versailles in the form of a much-debated exhibition by the American superstar artist Jeff Koons. NYT | SlideshowVersailles in recent years has displayed only a few select works of contemporary artists. The... View full entry
When the 9/11 attacks took place, I thought of this photograph. I’d taken it many years before — on my first visit to New York, in 1961, in fact — but I looked for it anyway. It reminded me of Lower Manhattan, the twin towers, and then, of course, of their absence. An Op-Ed by... View full entry
Commissioned by Art Angel and the Jerwood Foundation, Seizure by Roger Hiorns consists of a seductive cave of cobalt blue crystals. Created by turning a "bedsit" into a watertight tank and then filling it with 90,000 litres of copper sulphate solution, the result is an amazing geological like... View full entry