Richard Serra talks about his humongous retrospective at MoMA, Richard Serra Sculpture Forty Years on the Lopate Show on WNYC. Previous View full entry
52nd Biennale coverage including Vanessa Beecroft’s “Sudan Performance”. You might remember her from Ward’s “Terminal 5” art show staged at Saarinen’s TWA terminal a while back that ended in shame and recrimination due to partying-while-drunk antics... View full entry
Lampton - “There is a hope, and even some evidence—such as the recent Beijing policy decision to reduce the scope of the death penalty—that steady engagement, globalization, and the logic of change in China itself will gradually produce more humane governance domestically and... View full entry
The unexamined life, said Socrates, is not worth living. For a new generation of Americans and more, the unexposed life is not worth living. Digital diaries, online posts, life loggers and bloggers and Facebook and bed cams are increasingly making the very idea of a "private life" sound antique... View full entry
In an advance that could transform the advertising industry, xuuk's eyebox2 registers people's visual response (or lack thereof) to digital signage. Wired View full entry
The builder of a new car park in northern Rome partially walled up the ancient Aqua Virgo aqueduct after damaging its structure, plugging the flow of water to the fountain. BBC View full entry
“The idea is to make a collective intervention into the acoustic ecology of the city. To make use of that most basic human sound – humming – to beautify the sonic landscape of the town we all inhabit.” Sound artist Kathy Kennedyturbulence | Kennedy’s site View full entry
“We're not trying to do this for a hyper-well-educated, politically astute demographic because they can figure it out for themselves. We're trying to do this for the huge disenfranchised group of young people from say Oklahoma or Kansas City who don't know and aren't really interested in... View full entry
“From the beginning, the programme set itself a double goal, both to safeguard threatened documentary heritage and to bring documents that symbolize the history of humanity to the attention of a wider public. But the people backing the programme quickly came up against a contradiction: the... View full entry
Ubu Web has a good two part mp3 interview/discussion with the late Jacques Derrida from 2002, where he discusses his secret life of prayer, to the Judeo-Christian heritage of deconstruction, to sacrifice, belief, faith, secularization, atheism, finitude, and beyond. View full entry
Douglas Tompkins, who founded the North Face and Esprit clothing lines, hopes to do in Argentina what he did in Chile, buy and create broad stretches of land protected from agribusiness or industrial development. Critics weave many conspiracy theories. Sci-Tech View full entry
A memorial to gay people persecuted and murdered by the Nazis will be complete later this year in Berlin. The new memorial being situated right next to Eisenman's memorial field of steles, will contextualize itself into the field as another gray concrete stele, but with a window that shows two... View full entry
For years, Johnny Five lived not on the streets but below them, in the dark underworld beneath an abandoned train station in the Bronx. Then in December 2006, he was offered an apartment. The article and video explore the difficulties Johnny faced as he tried (and eventually failed) to move... View full entry
“…his underlying themes remained constant - fear and oppression and how people cope with or transcend it, meagre circumstances and how they can both warp and ennoble, the stifling drawn-out torture of political monocultures, and the abiding desire of human beings to possess their own... View full entry
“Western music in one’s car, but keeping a tape of sermons from the Koran in one’s glove compartment in the event of komiteh searches—are not, as Varzi emphasizes, conscious transgres-sions. Rather, they are the ways in which young men and women in Iran have managed to... View full entry