Yesterday, the House Appropriations Committee voted to drastically cut funding to the CPB. Democracy Now hosts a roundtable discussion. Updated: letter from KCRW after the jump View full entry
Pitt and allies join forces to fight global aids and poverty with the ONE Campaign. Is this part of the ownership society or the war on terror? View full entry
Adrian Searle (the guardian) writes a great review of the Venice Art Biennale 2005. There is a photo gallery here> and another article about Gilbert and George in the British Pavilion over here> View full entry
Chernobyl - NYT | Previous View full entry
Matthew Barney's latest work, featuring Barney (of course) and Bjork "together tell[ing] a tale of tea ceremonies, vaseline, a shinto marriage and of course the old classic whale-shapeshifting ending." Bjork is now pitching in with scoring the film. Drawing Restraint 9 premiers July 1 in... View full entry
Andrew Marr talks to Anish Kapoor and Deyan Sudjic. bbc | via no2self View full entry
Apparently it is more than success that prompted Serota to expand the Tate. Developers are scooping up any available site in Southbank like hot cakes. | nytimes | prev View full entry
a table made by Carlo Mollino in 1949 achieved a staggering $3,824,000, against a presale estimate of $150,000-200,000. The table was bought by a private collector after a protracted auction battle with another determined bidder in the saleroom at Christie's Rockefeller. Read View full entry
Nantes, France (pics): they do these birthdays with gusto. frm Hippoblog View full entry
"The installation is one of the great works of the past half-century, the culmination of a remarkable fruition in Mr. Serra's career." NYT View full entry
Richest Are Leaving Even the Rich Far Behind... The average income for the top 0.1 percent was $3 million in 2002, the latest year for which averages are available. That number is two and a half times the $1.2 million, adjusted for inflation, that group reported in 1980. No other income group... View full entry
Call for papers: Architecture, Anime and Alternate Landscapes, Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, April 2006: "In the decades since Osama Tezuka's Astro Boy (1963), Japanese anime artists and studios have produced a remarkable array of futuristic worlds, surreal spaces, and... View full entry
MIT's Tsunami Rehab Effort | NGO's get humanitarian awards for work in Africa | UN maps world wide hunger | North Korean famine forces millions of city dwellers in to country to farm | Mobile army requires solar soldiers | SPY ROCKS | RFID Passport plan ripped | Refugees in Somalia cause rents to... View full entry
The new issue of Tech Review, a "must-read"> Lawrence Lessig defends the free software movement on the basis of the importance of remixing to cultural creation; Richard A. Epstein begs to differ; and Lessig gets the last word in. Also, stunning images of your interiors, and...'who's... View full entry
Built using Processing, Jesse Kriss offers a History of Sampling. Go learn yrself. (via) View full entry