Dutch architect Jan Sonkie has made a name for himself in Malawi with his football shaped house (soccer for you septics). Although it doesn't compete with the Barier Design World Cup: Netherlands 0 - Japan 1 View full entry
SPANTOV, Romania (Reuters) - Thousands of Romanians have fled low-lying areas of the Danube basin in the last 24 hours as the river overwhelmed flood defenses to swamp towns, villages and farmland, officials said on Wednesday. View full entry
Mafoloko D interviews Isoje Chou on the AsylumNYC event. Chou is participating with a suitcase: "I am performing. Y'see, the whole concept has this lingering texture of exploitation and a kind of fascist rigidity with little room, literarily, for the participant to reinterpret it; in fact, it is... View full entry
"Karl Marx's birthplace is a stately three-story house that has been a fixture of [Trier, Germany] since it was built in 1727. What is changing are the large groups that visit almost every day from China, one of the few countries in the world still under the control of something calling itself a... View full entry
True public space, like true democracy, can be disruptive, even unruly. The public square is not a mall or a theme park, insulated and isolated from reality. It's serendipitous, not controlled; open to all, not restricted to the privileged few. Here, the have-nots can confront the haves and the... View full entry
A fresh surge of subway graffiti is inflicting the New York City transit system with expressive damage. The tagging implement of choice is glass etching acid, which dissolves the word or symbol into surfaces of glass. NYT View full entry
The father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, began considering the structure of the mind through drawing. A new exhibition at the New York Academy of Medicine illustrates the evolution of Freud's drawings from the actual to the abstract. NYT View full entry
Christie's is said to have guaranteed the Judd Foundation around $20 million for the sales. "This exhibition is the most beautiful survey of Judd's work ever seen in New York" says Roberta Smith.NYT View full entry
Following the outrage over the Muhammad caricatures published in Western newspapers, Israeli artists staged a contest. They were looking for the best anti-Semitic cartoons. The results are in.Jewish Caricature Contest. Also, The First Information Center of Iranian Cartoonists OnThe Web, and... View full entry
With 'immigration' coming to a head, AsylumNYC -- a timely artist-in-residence program for foreign artists -- is moving forward with 10 finalists selected out of 200 entrants from 43 countries, and an exhibit opening this Monday. But, for the final "contestants" who have been chosen, "on Monday... View full entry
Charging up public space - starts this weekend, looks fantastic. | Esp: Urban Gardening & Exterior Decorating (UGED) & Public Projects. View full entry
If we accept the old adage that you are what you eat, then Michael Pollan has some unsettling news: we are mostly processed corn that walks. That's one of his conclusions in his new book, "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals." Another is that America has a national eating... View full entry
The survey went to thousands of people who'd called a number on highway billboards announcing that Ladera Ranch, a new planned community in Orange County, Calif., was coming soon. It asked predictable marketing questions, such as whether people wanted ballfields or trails. Then came a section... View full entry
Frm eyebeam reblog: Chris Ware has published the last of his 29-page comic series Building Stories for the New York Times Magazine's Funny Pages. Read | 62 Mgb Zip download of the comics View full entry
The Pulitzer prizes, represents the pinnacle of journalistic excellence. This year, it was dominated by the Katrina disaster and the Iraq situation. Check out the images of the winners in the following categories, awarded this year (2006)...BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY Staff of Dallas Morning News... View full entry