After Reichstag and the Central Park it's time for the The Arkansas River. Christo and Jeanne Claude are busy again.homepage View full entry
The siberian winter has frozen most part of Europe.pics View full entry
The roof of a trade hall hosting at least 500 people in the southern Polish city of Katowice has collapsed, killing at least 20 people, police say. BBC View full entry
How would you describe the real estate "bubble"? "Is it 'cooling' or 'melting down?' Will there be a 'pause?' A 'soft landing?' A 'slow leak?' Are you a 'bubble' believer or of the 'frothy' faith?" NYT. View full entry
A bona fide (pun intended) California architect with a capital A and some Governator-issued credentials is the latest member of the Archinect editorial crew. Welcome Orhan Ayyuce. If you recognize his mug shot, you are a discussion groupie. I'll leave that one for the Archinect trivia game. Orhan... View full entry
Mark Sladen writes of his (chilly) visit to Finland's Ars Fennica event at Kiasma Helsinki. | artforum View full entry
WM$NA visits RMFA, Brussels, and flickrs the Panamarenko retrospective. More at pixagogo. Panamarenko became famous for the making of all sorts of individual transport fantasies that capture a mix of retro cold-war invention and escapist dreams. View full entry
A French "artist" who attacked Duchamp's celebrated porcelain urinal with a hammer has been ordered to pay a fine of 214,000 euros. BBC l previous View full entry
Immigration and Integration Minister Rita Verdonk is one of the most controversial figures in the Dutch Government. Along with the language tests, her most recent proposal is that everyone in the Netherlands speak Dutch when they're in public. The move has left the youth-wing of her own party the... View full entry
"Join Kenny G and DJ Monica on between 5 and 6pm for an hour of red-hot real estate porn as they welcome guest Lockhart Steele, proprietor of New York City's hottest real estate blog curbed.com. Venturing into topics never-before heard on WFMU's airwaves, Steele will be slinging the same sort of... View full entry
Turns out, nitrogen may be even worse for the climate than carbon dioxide - and it's not going away: "the consequences are likely to be even worse than 'just' global warming. Human health, biodiversity, ozone levels and global climate are already being affected. And if we thought the carbon... View full entry
Richard Dorment is mesmerised by the fluorescent light sculptures of Dan Flavin. Another raving review as the Retrospective makes its way through London. telegraph | search: 'Flavin' for numerous previous articles. View full entry
The US Diplomatic Mission to Cuba has installed a 1.5M information ticker that streams news and messages across its windows. Reuters View full entry
Rescue efforts have been underway to save over 200 workers trapped under a collapsed building they were constructing in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. BBC View full entry
The UNStudio + Imaginary Forces 8 ton installation at the Philadelphia ICA gets Artblogged and flickred. View full entry