Michael Heizer has spent the past 32 years constructing "City" — one of the biggest sculptures any modern artist has ever built, one and a quarter miles long and more that a quarter of a mile wide. Will it survive though? | nyt View full entry
A short Text of the Manuel Castells talk at the World Social Forum in Porto Allegre "Innovation, Liberty and Power in the Era of Information." It's in Spanish, so if you can't read it...babelfish | via. View full entry
The Erotic Museum is conducting an ongoing research project intent on recording the full breadth of natural and altered human physiology. By creating a massive image database of everyday people of every race. View full entry
The Museum of Bad Album Covers allows you to admire and vote for the 'baddest' album design covers you ever/never seen. View full entry
The New Bush Agenda: A Debate on Social Security with Paul Krugman vs. the American Enterprise Institute. DemNow View full entry
Ayn Rand's influence and legacy of 'American rugged individualism' continues to grow 100 years after her birth on February 2, 1905. l Cato l NYT l View full entry
Village Voice adds a list of items that the new MOMA might consider from their new base of operations. View full entry
If you only need a big vehicle for occasional trips to the lumber yard, for moving, or showing your parents around town, then why not CarShare? A non-profit organization that reduces the environmental impact of owning a car by allowing you to rent them hourly. View full entry
Kunst-Werke Berlin (Institute for Contemporary Art) after several years of discussion with berliners and the city authorities, finally opened 3 days ago, an exhibition about the RAF a.k.a. the Baader-Meinhof group. The deadliest terrorist organisation in recent German history. Another couple of... View full entry
Own and SUV? Still feel like helping clean up the environment? TerraPass has come up with part of the solution. Paying for a yearly TerraPass helps fund the cleanup of CO2 emissions. View full entry
While less "vitriolic" than the Guardian story; today's NYTimes Op-Ed piece lets us know that Phillip Johnson's past is not a dead issue. View full entry
Javier responds to Andrew Saint's obituary to Philip Johnson in the form of a new view - Philip Johnson; a Response to Andrew Saint. View full entry
Lucelia Artist Award Nominees for 2005 are announced. The 15 artists nominated for the award this year are Doug Aitken, Matthew Barney, Andrea Fraser, Tom Friedman, Ellen Gallagher, Roni Horn, Byron Kim, Maya Lin, Jennifer Pastor, William Pope.L, Fabian Marcaccio, James Siena, Catherine Sullivan... View full entry
This exhibition in Beirut sounds really cool. Geopolitically-charged, ironic and self-mocking, Lebanese designers have come up with some clever objects to keep design in its place. Daily Star View full entry
"What should we make of this memorial? It seems a token, its minimalist lyricism chiming too easily with the chic architecture of the new Mitte, between the Reichstag and Potsdamer Platz." - Jonathan Jones on Eisenman's memorial, but used as a counterpoint to the work of Joseph Beuys, which is... View full entry