"Chess," Bobby Fischer once said, "is life." It was the chess master's tragedy that the messy, tawdry details of his life often overshadowed the sublime genius of his game.Game of the Century*, animated play. +Hypermodernism in chessimage via visir.is* "The Game of the Century usually refers to a... View full entry
The waterfalls, including one that will fall from the famed Brooklyn Bridge, are the brainchild of Danish artist Olafur Eliasson. Installation will cost $15 million, funded by private donations to New York's Public Art Fund. Reuters View full entry
Internationally acclaimed conceptual artist Michael Asher creates a major sculptural installation for SMMoA, Santa Monica Museum of Art. Before the opening, Benjamin Buchloh will talk about 'Strategies of Voiding the Void' as it relates to Asher's work. SMMoA I highly recommend it for... View full entry
Art critic Edward Goldman asks the question and has a suggestion via Schaulager, a Herzog & de Meuron designed museum in Basel, Switzerland. KCRW/Art Talk / related / before +More LACMA giver sightings. View full entry
Big Wheel / Singapore Flyer / London Eye / Berlin Wheel / Chinese Wheel but no wheel come close to the wild thing... View full entry
After the red colored Fontana di Trevi (last october), the same author dropped 500,000 multi-colored balls in one of the most beautiful places in Rome. What is the meaning? Are the balls (that seem garbage) a polemic reaction to the real garbage in Naples? The performance cost 20,000 € (paid... View full entry
“Hell at the Library, Eros in Secret,” which opened at the National Library in Paris last month, offers a peek at its secret archive of erotic art, putting on display more than 350 sexually explicit literary works, manuscripts, engravings, lithographs, photographs, film clips, even... View full entry
StudioEXIT ----- Contracts: 15 Portraits A new exhibit at East 3rd Gallery this Friday, January 18th, 2008 from 7-11pm. The show will feature 15 new paintings by Sharif Khan & Patryk Ilendo, and is curated by Nicholas Waissbluth. This will be the first solo exhibit for studioEXIT in... View full entry
“BRING YOUR ARCHITECT and tell your architect to bring his contractor, plumber, demolition team, and hazmat squad to help carve your dream home from this former Superfund site, listed in the National Register of Condemned Properties. Sequestered in the up-and-coming neighborhood of NoHaSoCa... View full entry
Today's sober look back at the current decade will surely be tomorrow's dewy-eyed retro-fest: expect a reunion of the Darkness in 2010, with endless reruns of Life on Mars taking things into the realms of inter-referential lunacy. As the world carries on spiralling who-knows-where at speed, in... View full entry
The waves of the web can be dangerously turbulent--is there a perfect storm ahead for Gawker Media... NYT View full entry
New genetic evidence supports the theory that Christopher Columbus brought syphilis to Europe from the New World... Reuters View full entry
1.6 Ghz : 80G HD : LED backlit display : Multi-touch trackpad : 13.3" widescreen display : MacBook Air is 0.16" to 0.76" thick. (photos in full post) "It fits inside a envelope" - Steve Jobs View full entry
That sameness is the banana’s paradox. After 15,000 years of human cultivation, the banana is too perfect, lacking the genetic diversity that is key to species health. What can ail one banana can ail all. popular science View full entry
High costs, poor schools, and the prospect of ever more punitive taxes are driving wealthy expats away - and it's Britain's loss. Telegraph View full entry