Tate modern will mount the artists' first really major retrospective. The exhibition will include more than 200 pictures from the past 35 years, the most extensive survey of their work so far mounted. The Independent View full entry
Five years after the 11 September attacks, how has America changed? Click through these graphs to explore long-term trends in selected aspects of life.bbc View full entry
'Guerrilla artist' replaces hundreds of the heiress's albums in shops with his doctored versions. A spokesman for Virgin Megastores said "I have to take my hat off - it's a very good stunt" BBC | Independent View full entry
Lockheed Martin won a multibillion-dollar contract from NASA on Thursday to build the nation's next spaceship for human flight, a craft called Orion that is to replace the space shuttle and eventually carry astronauts to the moon and beyond. NYT | graphic View full entry
California leads the nation by putting a cap on greenhouse-gas emissions under a landmark bill that marks a clear break with the federal government and which backers hope will become a national model. Terminator gains new enemies. ap news View full entry
After three years as the editor in chief of Dwell, a shelter magazine based in San Francisco, Karrie Jacobs had had enough. Homesick for New York and frustrated with the editorial direction of the magazine she had helped to launch, she decided it was time to make a new life for herself. For Ms... View full entry
What would this look like, or, what exactly would this mean, or evidence about the structures of geopolitics? Well, some people at Princeton University and the University of Washington have collaborated to create the Mapping Globalization Project: a series of maps, narratives, and data analysis... View full entry
A joint display of work by Matta and Gordon Matta-Clark invites viewers to look for a link between father and son. Can it be found in Surrealism? Asks, Christopher Knight, Times Art Critic. la times View full entry
Iraq has seen another invasion, Reality TV. Are these shows preying on a desperate population with sensationalized notions of acheiving some version of the American Dream? A breakdown | prev: 1 & 2 View full entry
Universal Music, the world's largest music company, is backing a start-up that will allow consumers to download songs for free. It will rely on advertising for its revenues, offering a different business model from that of Apple Computer's popular iTunes music store. Financial Times View full entry
A slide show of before/after photos taken around New Orleans. I'm a sucker for site-specific before/afters, and this set is well done. MSN View full entry
On Toni Schlesinger's Spooky Real-Estate Writing. DISCUSSED: Greenwich Village, Paranoid Pimps, Long Island City, Boswell's Method Of Documentation,Spina Bifida, Harlems of the Mind, A Wassily Chair in Miniature, Snakes, Moby-Dick, Winnicott, The East Village, Ectoplasm, Neil Gaiman, Fort Greene... View full entry
PECHA KUCHA New York Wednesday, September 20, 2006 Doors open 7:00 PM, presentations at 8:30 PM... Speakers (keep posted for updates): Eric Bunge + Mimi Hoang, nArchitects Mark Dytham, Klein Dytham Architecture Christian Jankowski Andrew Klemmer, Paratusgroup Sarah Oppenheimer Marc Simmons, front... View full entry
Ballardian gives us a fantastic - and lengthy - interview with British novelist, essayist and notorious psychogeographer Iain Sinclair. J.G. Ballard, London's outer topographies, IKEA catalogs, suburban space, the Barbican, Rem Koolhaas, car wrecks, and Margaret Thatcher all make an appearance... View full entry
Google and Ebay announced a ground-breaking partnership on Monday that links the fortunes of the online giants at a time when their strategies had threatened to put them increasingly on a collision course. FT View full entry