The rumours that haunt the endless tunnels beneath the capital are as pungent as the air that fills them. In the latest of his Night Haunts journals, Sukhdev Sandhu braves the real London underground. Telegraph View full entry
The latest high-end garages are bigger than your first apartment -- and a lot fancier. Think security, climate control, pool tables and even valets. Here's how you'll know that you have too much money: when you buy a condominium for your car. View full entry
What if the world cared about sustainability as much as soccer? Grist View full entry
Herzog & de Meuron's Artist's Choice exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art is perverse, cerebral and probably the most elaborate one-liner you're likely to encounter this summer. Nothing less should be expected from an effort titled "Perception Restrained," which jams artworks into... View full entry
If only the Whitney would use its future Renzo Piano addition for its biennials and retrospectives and leave the Breuer building exclusively to more full house shows...Bloomberg l NYT View full entry
THE McCARREN PARK POOL in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, is surely one of the last places in New York you would expect to see a concert. NY Times View full entry
The crisis is deepening in Gaza as Israeli armed forces take up multi fronted offense on Hamas, Palestinian beach front and civilian infrastructures,in order to rescue the captured soldier. yahoo,aljazeera,bbc,nyt View full entry
The power of the gaze to condition behavior is widely known. From Bentham to Eisenstein to GWB the watching eye has played a significant role in shaping our culture and behaviors. A new study has shown that even photocopied images of eyes have the power to make subjects behave more... View full entry
Efforts to more accurately track ocean life has led to increased interest in a global initiative called the Ocean Tracking Network and the POST. | cbc View full entry
Artificial earth surfaces, interactive building skins, and responsive infrastructures - including a system that treats inhabitants as "erotic prey" - it's the delightfully weird, machinic world of Toronto-based Philip Beesley Architect. Read more: Earth Surface Machine. View full entry
Should a curator be expected to adhere to standards of objectivity? "Berkeley's MATRIX curator Chris Gilbert resigned when the museum's administration demanded that he remove from the wall text of his exhibition cycle Now-Time Venezuela: Media Along the Path of the Bolivarian Process language in... View full entry
Corporate raider Lakshmi Mittal powers into a merger with French steel firm Arcelor. After initially striking a deal with SeverStal, a Russian group, Arcelor caves to Mittal's higher, unsolicited offer. SeverStal may sue. Mittal celebrates. BBC View full entry
The Basel Art Fair is not a very good place to look at art, but it is the best place in the world to understand the ever-more intimate relationship between art and money. Telegraph l related? View full entry
Parkour , or the practice of urban aerial acrobatics, has reached new heights and is about to go big screen with the upcoming Bond, James Bond, flick. | beeb (prev) View full entry
World's top 200 collectors for several years running: "Our collection has clearly evolved," Mr. Rachofsky says. "Initially it was more random, but it's moved into two broad strains of contemporary thought - one responding to the sublime minimalism of the house, things that deal with the essence... View full entry