The new issue of Artkrush focuses on design – including design blogs such as Design Observer, gravestmor, and the twice-Webby-winning we make money not art. Artkrush. View full entry
Images of Quinze & Milan apotheosis to their first year in partnership with JAGA. 150 Km of timber, 25 people, 3 weeks of work, the "final Burn" at burning man 2006. Go to Flickr. more photos on Dezeen via Dezain. View full entry
All Things Considered, May 1, 2007 · Listener Sarah Schmelling rides the Washington, D.C. Metro system and enjoys the soothing sounds of dying escalators. View full entry
Casts of the body of artist Antony Gormley are appearing on rooftops around the South Bank as part of Event Horizon, an installation to coincide with an exhibition at The Hayward. Read 1 & 2 View full entry
Artist Olafur Eliasson has been selected as the 2007 Joan Miró Prize recipient. He was selected for his outstanding contribution to current art practices. ArtDaily l related View full entry
Christopher Hitchens mounts a caustic tryptich at Slate to coincide with the “We'd be better off without religion” debate held in London this week. Careful to distinguish himself from the likes of Dawkins and Dennett he crafts a potent thesis for secularism. “Our belief is not a... View full entry
Standing 3-stories high and made of cedar and pine, with life-sized animals and "a 50-seat theatre showing a segment of the Disney film Fantasia", Dutch "creationist Johan Huibers built the ark as testament to his literal belief in the Bible." BBC. View full entry
A new artist facility in the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn boasting access to wood/metal fabrication shops, photo studios, digital media labs and equipment. $30 a month for membership...not a bad option if you don't have access to a shop space in NYC. 3rd Ward View full entry
"The flight, which lasted more than an hour took a series of dramatic dives, allowing the professor to experience 25-second spurts of weightlessness." View full entry
In a green vision extravaganza on Earth Day in New York, Mayor Michael Bloomberg laid out a blindingly ambitious 25-year plan to turn New York into America's urban green giant by 2030. Listen: On Point View full entry
An iconic Banksy Pulp Fiction mural has been painted over as London Transport draws the line ... BBC View full entry
It seems that most of the media attention has been focused on Cho Seung-Hui and his actions at Virginia Tech. However in India, Minal Panchal is being remembered as a bright and outgoing architecture student who was following in her late fathers' footsteps.Rizvi College of Architecture officials... View full entry
Trish Hall, The Times's Living Editor, answers reader questions. The second question from the top is particularly interesting and wide. nyt View full entry
Ornette Coleman has won the Pulitzer Prize for music with his recording 'Sound Grammar'. This is the first time a recording has won the music Pulitzer, and a first for purely improvised music. Read & listen @ npr View full entry
Denmark tops the bill in a European happiness survey – but Britain is gloomier than most of its EU peers. Univ. of Cambridge News Service View full entry