Damien Hirst's The Four Evangelists series of paintings will find their own sacred space in the most sacred of cities to Catholicism. Guardian View full entry
Google adds video search engine to the mix of their alogorithmic arsenal. View full entry
60 years ago today soldiers from the Soviet Union liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp l January 27th, 1945 l l NYT l Jpost l Haaretz l Independent l Reuters l View full entry
The famed Gramercy Park Hotel will close its doors on Monday, as a year long renovation begins at the hand of Ian Schrager. Olivia Barry informs us, "Monday will be the auction of all the fabulous furniture including Charlotte Periand chairs, and some of those kitschy trompe l'oeil end tables... View full entry
Mill 's new "insect" TV ads for Nextel are some of the smartest I've seen in a long time. I think you'll all appreciate this one in particular. View full entry
My friend Todd Benson in Brazil writes this piece for the NYTimes about the internal politics and symbolic friction that is burdening the leftist movement at the World Social Forum gearing up to begin in Porto Alegre this Wednesday. January 25, 2005 Antiglobalization Gathering in Brazil Sees... View full entry
While Palestinians in East Jerusalem lose land to the Absentee Property Law, a few prominent artists like Mona Hatoum, Mahmoud Darwish and architect Suad Amiry, are promoting an alternative image of the Arab world helping to expose the realities of a Life Under Occupation. But some skeptics are... View full entry
Ubuweb continues its far-reaching archive of sound by hosting the realunch of the mind-blowing 365 Days Project in which a historically significant, though obscure, mp3 a day is offered. View full entry
Robert Smithson's "Spiral Jetty," a 30-year-old piece of so-called "earth art" that has re-emerged from the bed of Utah's Great Salt Lake. l NPR l View full entry
Christo and Jean-Claude's templates for The Gates (at Central Park) are burried in white fluff. Gothamist has pics. View full entry
I just discovered the mind blowing work of Ingo Gunther, an artist, journalist, sculptor fusing interpretations of satellite data to freely distribute military and ecological information to the public, in projects like these amazing cartographic globes and the Refugee Republic. (via) View full entry
Hey all you fancy mapping lovers: researchers have created the first map of high school romances (even though I'm sure everyone has tried to do this diagram at some point). They found a chain of 288 one-to-one sexual relationships at a high school in the U.S. Midwest, meaning the teenager at the... View full entry
NPR's Scott Simon interviews Philip Glass on the Mesoamerica influenced Symphony No. 7 - A Toltec Symphony. NPR View full entry
Matt Pyke, ex Designers Republic, now running Universal Everything, has sent us a call for submissions for a series of multi-disciplinary exhibitions that he is curating in galleries across the UK...We aim to show video works at the absolute forefront of what can be done, what hasn't been seen... View full entry
Kinetic artist whose work gave an optical sense of movement and whose aesthetic was based on a sense of musical intervals. Guardian. | prev View full entry