The NY Times addresses Katrina's architectural destruction. Read View full entry
With his picture on rock band posters, baseball caps and women's lingerie, Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara is firmly entrenched in the capitalist consumer society that he died fighting to overturn. But as well as being one of the world's most reproduced, the image has become one of its most... View full entry
Pollution, vandalism and natural decay have run up a maintenance bill for Italy's cultural heritage that the state says is too big for it to handle, so the art-laden country is calling on citizens to help fill the breach. reuters View full entry
"Each week at the ICA, for one week only, a curator is presenting a selection of works that capture, if such a thing is possible, London as it is now: in flux, polyglot, a world of little worlds," highlighting, in the process, "the roles taken by art and artists in the redevelopment of the city... View full entry
Throughout Canada FutureShop is caging strangers for 5 days in urban display shipping containers. What is this the London Zoo? View full entry
No, not his manner: "Most potential buyers would be put off by the red-tinged blooms of dry rot, not to mention the overwhelming gothic style of the architecture and rows of haunting, crumbling statues of long-dead kings." But not Damien Hirst, shark-corpse king of Young British Art, who has... View full entry
A state of emergency has been declared in four states in the wake of Monday's class IV hurricane: Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and parts of Florida. According to FEMA, as of early August 29, approximately 52,000 people were in 240 shelters throughout the Gulf Coast area, with the majority in... View full entry
The city library in Malmö will let curious visitors check out living people for a 45-minute chat in a project meant to tear down prejudices about different religions, nationalities, or professions. The project, called Living Library, was introduced at Denmark's Roskilde Festival in... View full entry
...La Esquina, which is sort of like Studio 54 with chipotle instead of cocaine. "I'm already in love with this place." NYTimes View full entry
The Multiple-Channel Screen, aka the SuperFan. wsj View full entry
Storm Devastates Gulf Coast and a Shrinking La. Coastline Contributes To Flooding Two months ago, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) told an audience of congressional staffers and scientific experts the federal government needs to spend billions of dollars over the next two decades to restore her state's... View full entry
The real estate boom literally left Earth on Friday when - quietly, strangely - the BBC released some pointers about how to set up a moon base: first, look for "sites with a good supply of ilmenite... to extract oxygen, hydrogen and helium"; then "use lunar rocks as building supplies" because... View full entry
Fear descends onto the new Chicago area residents with the news that gang members are now clad in white T-shirts instead of stereo-typical red and blue Colors. SunTimes View full entry
Hundreds of thousands of New Orleans residents have fled as Hurricane Katrina, strengthening to the deadliest level, closes in on the city. Those unable to leave through infirmity or lack of transport queued around the block to get into refuges - including the 77,000-seater Superdome stadium... View full entry
Teddy Cruz talks about using art to reclaim the pubic domain and inSite in this article, "It's not about public spaces as we know it (but about) informational and social networks, and how they can affect public domain. It's a stage for many things to occur." Also, getting ready to kick off next... View full entry