Winner of the Canadian Centre for Architecture 2006-2007 James Stirling Memorial Lectures on the City prize, Eyal Weizman, has written the principal essay in Log 7. His 8,000 word essay addresses the Israeli military's appropriation of architectural theory, particularly its use of Deleuze and... View full entry
Anyone up for pro-bono little CAD work? We are looking for someone to reproduce a scanned hand drawn plan of Southanikuppam, India into AutoCAD. It is in relation to a post-tsunami community center we are building. If you are interested let me know via email and I can send you the image files. View full entry
From a Campbell's Soup can to a dissected lamb split and submerged in formaldehyde, postwar and contemporary images straight out of the art history books rose to ever-higher price levels in more than two and a half hours of tireless bidding at Christie's last night. But the most memorable part of... View full entry
You may be familiar with the history of NYC's Sixth Borough and the true origin of Central Park from Extremely Loud. But it was first told a couple years ago by Safran Foer in this form for the NYTimes. Once upon a time, New York City had a Sixth Borough. You won't read about it in any of the... View full entry
Design Within Reach is hosting an open bar party for BKLYN designs on Saturday night. RSVP to [email protected] by May 12, 2006. View full entry
Wish Lockhart a happy one for his archi-stepchild of curbed. Congrats to all the snipers. View full entry
Maya Lin works with a vocabulary of form culled from her study of landscape. By altering scale and materials, she creates works that connect the ideal and the real. The exhibition is on view through September 3, 2006 @ the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, Washington. arcspace View full entry
As art with high production values has become increasingly common, the role of the artist has evolved into something closer to that of a film director who supervises a large crew of specialists to realize his or her vision. But there's a difference: in filmmaking, each individual ”&rdquo... View full entry
With essays on art, abattoirs and body parts, the controversial periodical Documents was conceived by Georges Bataille as an alternative to surrealism. Guardian View full entry
The Pentagon is now paying for a 13 minute film to be screened on United airways flights to help enlist new recruits. Your tax dollars at work, coming to a cinema near you? View full entry
'Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art' brings together 13 artists and artists' groups to address the concept of 'sustainability', a term incorporating environmentalism, social justice, economics and design aesthetics but not usually associated with art. With this broadening, according to... View full entry
Lawrence Lessig , cyberspace theorist & founder of the creative commons license, gave a 20m lecture on copyrights and our "remix culture" @ the public library last month. A webcast, in all its powerpoint clickerness, is circulating & def. worth a listen. But this is just the preface to... View full entry
Royal de Luxe an extraordinary European street theatre company is perfoming in the centre of London this weekend. Photos from Flickr. A video of the AMAZING elephant here in Londonist View full entry
Busted! What is Jaime de la Vega, the deputy mayor in charge of transportation and mass transit policy, doing to help Los Angeles reduce greenhouse gases? Answer | Via View full entry
Affordable public housing is a pillar of the German welfare state, and the prospect of vast pieces of it falling into the hands of pinstriped financiers from New York or London has unsettled many people here. In Dresden, 45,000 of them signed a petition opposing the sale. "When a new owner is... View full entry