The $300m Barra Grande Dam is already built, but so far the courts have blocked the deforestation of more than 40km2 (15m2) of Brazilian pine - or araucaria - forest which has to take place before the sluice gates are closed and the reservoir is impounded. | bbc | more View full entry
The New Yorker's Malcolm Gladwell reviews the new book Collapse by Jared Diamond, which proposes that societies are typically destroyed not by external influences or cataclysmic events, but rather by their own mismanagement of resources. View full entry
Steel bases for Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Gates are in Central Park. Eventually, the bases will support 7,500 gates along 23 miles of the park's pedestrian walkways - from 59th Street to 110th Street, east and west. | nytimes | prev View full entry
Susan had a favorite piece of art for each book. She always wanted to see what we'd propose, but it was hard to compete with what she had chosen, her selections suggesting, from her perspective at least, deep relationships to her writing. Design Observer's William Drenttel remembers Susan Sontag... View full entry
The UK's Channel 4 is producing "Demolition," a four-part TV series that promises as its climax the total destruction of a major piece of architecture. The Guardian's Deyan Sudjic picks apart the idea. View full entry
If you are in Montreal or Brooklyn in the coming months, do not miss an exhibtion of TED prize winner Edward Bertynsky's photographs of tailings, quarries, urban mines, ship breaking, and oil. View full entry
Three seminal land art project coming close to their completion. The Guardian delves a little into wether they are meaningful or arrogant. Via land+living (w/ plentiful linkage). View full entry
Dan Flavin gets the royal treatment from the New York Times with a look at his retrospective at the National Gallery of Art. View full entry
With superstar architects designing everything from Vodka Bottles to Bathtubs, and an increased Global Obsession with surgically modifying our bodies, one wonders when Architects will start designing people”¦ View full entry
The United States is stepping up to the plate, pledging $350 million to help tsunami victims, a tenfold increase over its first wave of aid. View full entry
Wild animals seem to have escaped the Indian Ocean tsunami, adding weight to notions they possess a sixth sense for disasters. Wired View full entry
Tyrant Ceausescu's former palace is now home to a gallery - and Romanians are furious. Guardian View full entry
Democracy Now gets news on the ground and speaks with Sri Lanka's Ambassador to the United Nations Bernard Goonetilleke. View full entry
The BBC is a good source for staying abreast on the situation: LINK View full entry
Take the Arts Quiz 2004, from the Guardian. FUN FUN FUN. View full entry