The Financial Times analyzes this years four (Simon Starling, Darren Almond, Gillian Carnegie, and Jim Lambie) artists elevated to be awarded this years Turner Prize. l previous l View full entry
Bugsy Segel merged with Robert McNamara to create the industrial military gambling complex - a GI Bill to gamble away. NYT View full entry
A nice profile in BusinessWeek of Architecture for Humanity's "new model of humanitarian aid: working from the bottom up, leveraging the power of the community -- both local and global -- and aiming to spur local economies." (prev) View full entry
Japanese civil and construction engineers will establish a nonprofit organization next month to provide aid to developing countries hit by natural disasters. The goal "is to put skilled assets in place as soon as possible after a disaster to assess ground damage and damage to buildings, and... View full entry
Starting October 20th, an art exhibition will open in three galleries in Buffalo entitled, "The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art". The massive show is a sort of history of avant-garde art in China and will feature Forty-seven artists represented by about 83 works, some never seen before... View full entry
Nicolai Ourousoff takes a drive through New Orleans and shows how it was already on it's way to creating a "picture-postcard vision of its past" before the hurricanes struck. He warns that urban revitalization there does not have to be a black-and-white struggle between strict historical... View full entry
Questions of form and function were debated by architects as part of a rebuilding forum in Biloxi this week in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. NY Times View full entry
China's second manned spacecraft Shenzhou VI returned home on Monday after orbiting the Earth for five days. Reuters View full entry
Paul Preissner gives a view of the Sustainable Waterfronts symposium in Chicago orbiting around the recent events in NO. Archined View full entry
Wind turbines east of San Francisco Bay offer sustainable energy, but the positioning of the farm on an important bird-migration route has pitted one environmentalist versus another. Wired View full entry
The Hell of the Beautiful brings together 64 international artists whose work literally, formally, and conceptually reflect on Neo-Baroque as a aesthetic category in contemporary culture. See for yo'self at Blogs Ya. Seems like this show's not-too-distant cousin was Greg Lynn's Intricacy project. View full entry
On the emerging new legal frontier of "space law" and cosmic commercialization, one man is trying to claim ownership of the asteroid Eros on the grounds that he is entitled to "make a claim for anything that is not owned." After he tried charging NASA parking/storage and late fee's for a probe... View full entry
"The rise of the supersized house is akin to the rise of the SUV. There are plenty of people who profess to loathe them, yet still they keep selling, at many tiers of the market. In fact, gargantuan homes are simply the full expression of a trend dating back 50 years. Like our waistlines and our... View full entry
Italy will observe a massive strike and lockout today in protest of massive cuts to the arts ordered by Silvio Berlusconi's government. Guardian View full entry
Frieze asks this fundamental question in an ongoing series, surveying 33 artists, collectors, critics, curators, educators, and gallerists. Part 1, Part 2, and Into What? View full entry