Opening tonight, 7pm, espeis archetype gallery, Williamsburg, NYC. View full entry
Cologne-based art collective Lichtfaktor has transformed a simple street science into a lucrative new genre of illuminative art. Via Wired Additionally, a video they created for Sky Movies entitled "Star Wars v Star Trek" Via YouTube View full entry
Edward Goldman reviews three art events including Gordon Matta-Clark exhibition at MOCA and Takashi Murakami at Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles with a nod to completed Barry McGee exhibition at Disney Hall, via his much loved Art Talk radio program. KCRW View full entry
Ah that voice..."C'mon feel the noise!" Kevin DuBrow RIP. NYT View full entry
The most recent edition of Vague Terrain contains some interviews that may be of interest to Archinecters. McKenzie Wark discusses gamer theory & his upcoming text on the Situationist International and installation artists Thomson & Craighhead talk dataspace. View full entry
Holland Cotter examines the buzz surrounding the newly "resurrected" Detroit Institute of Arts. "In short, this story of a vulnerable institution in a spirited but depressed town is one of modest triumphs mingled with failures. And it is a very American story, about the shameful way we treat our... View full entry
Unphotographable is a minimalist blog I just discovered. It is by photographer Michael David Murphy and photograph-less pictures always starting with 'This is a picture I did not take'. Enjoy. View full entry
65 countries celebrate Buy Nothing Day. Of course, consumerist media don't like it. Kalle Lasn of Adbusters Magazine explains why. CNN lady can't stand buying nothing. She keeps saying, c'mon c'mon... View full entry
thanks to the folks at terrachoice for illuminating our sinful ways: *Sin of the Hidden Trade-Off *Sin of No Proof *Sin of Vagueness *Sin of Irrelevance *Sin of Fibbing *Sin of The Lesser of Two Evils Now I feel so dirty... View full entry
New York based, urban sabateur and obsessive documentarian of movement, WK Interact, presents himself this winter at Espeis Archetype Gallery. Witness the climbers, salary-men, bikers and thieves who are obsessively drawn through a series of interior and exterior installations. Opening in... View full entry
"The business interests of America’s megachurches are as varied as basketball schools, aviation subsidiaries, investment partnerships and even a limousine service." NYT View full entry
The Italian government on Tuesday released the first images of a deep cavern, the lupercal, where some archaeologists believe that ancient Romans honored Romulus and Remus — the legendary founders of Rome. NYT View full entry
First smoking, then Fois Gra now chickens? When will it end? Chicken Ban View full entry
Human skin cells can be reprogrammed to behave almost exactly like embryonic stem cells, a discovery that provides a road map for creating personalized biological repair kits without ethical strings attached, scientists reported today. la times / CellPress View full entry
Creative class types have been documenting the evidence that geography still matters. People around the world may have access to the same tools of information technology, but you're still at a disadvantage if you live in, say, rural Alabama. Cities, they argue, continue to exert a special... View full entry