An exhibition emerges from a two-year seminar-laboratory on globalization taught by Allan Sekula at the Cal-Arts."No idea of globalization is worth its salt unless it tastes of the sea and seaports. Why is the Port of Los Angeles considering promoting an international art biennial like other... View full entry
Food prices are causing misery and strife around the world. Radical solutions are needed. Pictures of hunger usually show passive eyes and swollen bellies. The harvest fails because of war or strife; the onset of crisis is sudden and localised. Its burden falls on those already at the margin... View full entry
Following the recent news of artist Guillermo Vargas' "installation" of a starving dog, a German artist, Gregor Schneider, is now publicly seeking a volunteer to die while on display. CBC View full entry
Three wonderful, previously unexhibited works by the celebrated Pop artist Jeff Koons are currently being displayed on the Cantor Roof Garden at the Met. Each of these sculptures is a greatly enlarged, glossily lacquered, stainless-steel representation of something small...They are mischievously... View full entry
What a relief. Near the end of a decade crammed with junk-art collectibles geared to junk-bond budgets, and a museum season of ragbag sculptures and wallpapered words, we get bare walls and open space in the Olafur Eliasson survey at the Museum of Modern Art and P.S. 1. Light and color, with a... View full entry
Drive 100 miles, fueled by only 4oz of water? Sounds too good to be true... View full entry
restrictive covenants are being chipped away from suburbia as more folks realize that reducing their carbon footprint means breaking the law. In an Ontario suburb, the ban on hanging clothes out to dry is being challenged in court... Like the solar access recently fought over in CA and the right... View full entry
The New York Times' David Leonhardt discusses the relationship between happiness and money. Recent findings by two young economists from the University of Pennsylvania indicate happiness may be more influenced by income than previously proposed by Richard Easterlin's famous study in the 70's... View full entry
Edward N. Lorenz, a meteorologist who tried to predict the weather with computers but instead gave rise to the modern field of chaos theory, died Wednesday at his home in Cambridge, Mass. He was 90. NYT View full entry
A Flickr protest spawned a sugary snackfest Wednesday as dozens of people turned out to enjoy free doughnuts handed out by the popular photo-sharing site. Wired View full entry
Fireballs of pine needles and steel, airplane crashes, 41 hour delays and other stories of the Secret Lives of Elevators in the New Yorker | via View full entry
When a designer like Philippe Starck predicts an end to designers, he must be kidding. Right? View full entry
Après congestion pricing, traffic types fixate on Paris. NY Mag View full entry
Philip M. Parker , who is a chaired professor of management science, has developed computer algorithms that collect publicly available information on a subject — broad or obscure — and, aided by his 60 to 70 computers and six or seven programmers, he turns the results into books in a... View full entry
"I never dreamed about being president. When I was growing up, I wanted to be Willie Mays." - #43#43 by el jeffe this week... browse this until we overcome the technical difficulties! home run indeed. thanks el jeffe! Filed under 'art' View full entry