Visualize the Money: US gov spending comparisons (i.e. defense v. arts). Inspired by Parade... View full entry
CSMonitor describes the new Rockies landscape that is emerging from “an unprecedented invasion of oil-patch "roughnecks" creating a round-the-clock beehive of drilling rig crews, pipe layers, roadbuilders, and truck fleets.” View full entry
What's it going to be this week? Google Ride Finder. Crazy things like this must be the reason why the Google founders can only manage to make a salary of a whopping $1 (one dollar) each. View full entry
There are revolutionaries, and there are breakdancin grannies named Auntie Cool changing the face of the aged in China. | bbc View full entry
Tomorrow sunday 10th. Takahashi's installation in the Serpentine Gallery (London) will be dismantled and the artist is inviting members of the public to attend and take away for free some of the stuff that make up the work. View full entry
"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" on Comedy Central won a Peabody Award for its presidential election coverage for the second time. NYT View full entry
Dyske's White Paper has an intriguing view on the origin of ideas and the conservation of intent within the context of art and the institution of the museum. View full entry
John King, from the SF Chronicle, discusses the rising popularity of architecture and architects in main stream culture. Read View full entry
Fabien Cousteau, the grandson of famous oceanographer and filmmaker Jacques Cousteau has developed a shark sub.... Wired View full entry
Not only has Google nailed the Mapping game but their new Satellite feature is on fire. Click and drag the satellite image, zoom on the left: Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, San Francisco View full entry
The London Photographer's gallery annual prize is back, with a new name (Deutsche Börse Photography Prize) and bigger bag (£30,000 for the winner). This year's nominees are french photographer Luc Delahaye, the american Stephen Shore, JH... View full entry
The new tour takes visitors from a "baroque abbey in St Gallen to such impressive modern buildings as the marble chapel in canton Ticino by renowned architect Mario Botta, the Lucerne Culture and Congress Centre by Jean Nouvel and the Beyeler Foundation by Renzo Piano." From Swiss Info. View full entry
Frank Gehry will be guest starring on the Simpsons tonight. You still have time to catch it if you're on the left coast...Marge brings it to the attention of the Springfield Cultural Advisory Board and then asks architect Frank Gehry to design and build a new Springfield cultural center. He sees... View full entry
Jean-Michel Basquiat: a new retrospective; an ever-inflating market share. Marta predicts miles and miles of new merchandise. | The New Yorker: "Young Fun" View full entry
Damien Hirst is back in NYC (Gagosian) with his love it or hate it cocktail of death, celebrity, sex and technology, heavily spiked with comic self-promotion. | nytimes View full entry