The Wrong Gallery, that locked glass door in NYC's Chelsea District with the blunt notice: "Fuck Off We're Closed," is finally opening at the Tate Modern. Guardian View full entry
Google Zeitgeist's data reveals that the most popular natural disaster for 2005 was the Tsunami, followed by Hurricane Rita and with poor old Katrina being the third most interesting. The Sumatra earthquake barely registered... View full entry
X is next to C on the keyboard, but it is an appropriate letter for the current NYC transit strike, bringing an entire city to a near-grinding halt. Check it out in Flickr: Link, Link and Link View full entry
"On King Kong, the Empire State and the dynamism of the city" - a short history of King Kong via Manhattan modernism, Italian futurism and the rise of the iconic skyline, complete with links to extensive film images, at the excellent Things Magazine. View full entry
Mountains of post-Katrina toxic waste - "an unprecedented onslaught of debris" - now urgently demand a clean-up: but is anyone willing to commit? NYT. View full entry
A Minnesota prison uses a three-foot hedge to keep prisoners in... Is that a good idea? Some wonder. NYT. View full entry
"From a distance, it looks like an Army base camp, or perhaps the old set from the television series "M*A*S*H." But here, a little more than a stone's throw from the Gulf of Mexico, on a muddy gravel lot that used to be a Little League field, a makeshift village has emerged for some of the many... View full entry
In what is being hailed as the largest media facade in the world (at least by Rhizome), the new SPOTS installation for Berlin's Potsdamer Platz will cover 11 stories of a glass building with 1800 flourescent lights controlled by a central computer, featuring the work of artists Rafael... View full entry
Did it really have to come to this? Cute polar bears drowning? More and more on global warming. via View full entry
A new online database of 16,000 people of note includes just two dozen architects. Only 4 are alive - Bill McDonough, Frank Gehry, Thom Mayne and Robert Venturi. View full entry
In Dubai, "the ruling al-Maktoum family have long had a vision to develop this once-sleepy trading port, previously famous for pearl-diving and gold smuggling." And now the instant city is abustle: BBC. Previously. And previously. View full entry
The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize goes to Anne Winters, who "finds the perfect terrain for her subject, actual and symbolic, in the city of New York, with its surface grid of streets, the vertical compendium of its buildings and its underlying net of cables, pipes and tunnels." The Nation View full entry
"The shattered remains of a 5500-year-old citadel that stood on the modern-day border between Syria and Iraq provide some of the oldest evidence for organised and bloody warfare." The citadel apparently crumbled "beneath a crushing hail of bullet-shaped projectiles." New Scientist. View full entry
For all you digital modeling-animation lovers! In keeping with the Museum's long tradition of presenting animation, this is the most extensive gallery exhibition that MoMA has ever devoted to the genre. Featuring over 500 works of original art on loan for the first time from Pixar Animation... View full entry
The economics of online role-playing games, where the currency of land values, outsourced farming labor, and hunting and mining rights prove no less real than the currency of conventional bank accounts. economist | via View full entry