Jonathan Harris distills the Web’s infinite avalanche of thoughts, facts, and feelings into exquisitely framed portraits of humanity. Metropolis View full entry
Poet and public radio host Garrison Keillor pens an ode to that much maligned city. Salon"...It is more than ever a city of immigrants, the Europeans diminishing, the Rodriguezes and Jimenezes and Marquezes burgeoning. (Check out the phone book.) Immigrant culture isn't so pretty -- you rent a... View full entry
SANTIAGO, Chile - A glacial lake in Chile's southern Andes has disappeared suddenly and scientists want to know why. Canadian Press View full entry
Retro-futurism is all the rage these days: antique computers, 8-bit game art, classic cases for modern gear, anything to make the onslaught of new technology less disposable. The yearning for timelessness in a constantly renewing tech culture has led to a spike in interest in the steam-powered... View full entry
“The altar stone at Stonehenge, installed around 2,600 BC, is a six ton slab of sandstone brought by means unknown from Wales to Salisbury plain. The central monument in Banksy's latest installation, a replica of the ancient monument built on the site of the forthcoming Glastonbury... View full entry
A financial services firm in Japan has begun offering lower mortgage interest rates to "intelligent" customers. BBC View full entry
The current gravitational pull of Europe’s art fairs is undeniable. However, there are other events closer to home that are no less attractive for their accessibility, both financial and conceptual. Affordable Art Fair NYC | Renegade Craft Fair NYC | Biennale de Montréal 2007 View full entry
“Her exhibition consists of the responses of 107 women to a private email Calle had received from a lover, telling her that their affair was over. The email ended with the phrase that provides the title of the show, Take Care of Yourself. The women read the email, analysed it, danced and... View full entry
In landscape drawing, lines are usually representations of the contours of the observed world: a horizon, a mountain ridge, a tendril. But a line that the artist Eve S. Mosher began drawing last month is striving for a different kind of effect. NYT View full entry
Some articles of interest: Real World vs Gaming World Identities, a slideshow. | The lives of the Chinese digital gold miner video. | A boat house in France. | Pimping Vehicles + Commercial Culture = Donk Cars | Does ethnic and racial diversity foster social isolation? | NYT Magazine View full entry
Global Cities is a new exhibition at Tate Modern organized in association with the Venice Biennale. The 10 global cities featured in Tate Modern's new show of the same name, among them Cairo, Shanghai, Istanbul, Mexico City and London, represent something different: they are, mostly... View full entry
In the age of total biennale mobilization across the world, it's nice to see an inaugural event with a worthwhile premise, so how about an exhibit titled Destroy Athens. Sounds promising... +++full press release+++ DESTROY ATHENS Destroy Athens, curated by Xenia Kalpaktsoglou, Poka-Yio and... View full entry
The eyes of an anxious world have been trained on Tulsa, Okla., today, in hopes of learning once and for all who won the brand-new 1957 Plymouth Belvedere coupe that has been buried under the courthouse lawn for 50 years — not to mention whether the dang thing will turn over. NYT View full entry
Want your mug off Street View? Google wants your ID, sworn statement, and a urine sample. Wired Blog | previously 1 | 2 View full entry
After the artists, dealers, critics and hedge-fund guys jetted off last weekend to shop in Basel and check out Documenta in Germany, it became easier to tell whether the 52nd version of the Venice Biennale was as much of a bore as it seemed. It’s not. It’s subtle and sober. And, well... View full entry