Zahid Sardar looks back on the recent International Design Conference in Aspen, where a panel of speakers expressed deep concerns for how technology is transforming our privacy and the fabric of public space, in subtle as much as in obvious ways now that people have accepted surveillance as a... View full entry
Herald Tribune goes on a tour of the Taipei Art Biennial. Runs until Jan. 23. Sounds like a good New Year's escapade. Read. Previous. View full entry
the change that november 2 will (hopefully) usher in is nearly upon us. in the meantime visit Parsons School of Design's "Voting Booth Project." View full entry
The man who created modern art With the soon reopening of the MOMA, The Guardian has published a piece about the man introduced modern art to the world View full entry
Heath Bunting and Kayle Brandon are compiling a database exploring elements of legal status in Britain, with the ultimate goal of allowing people to create a new identity from information collected on the Internet. The first stage of their project is the focus of "Rules of Crime,'' a small show... View full entry
The people at abcdefg...com have come up with the dumbest email addresses ever. It's so long its completely worthless. View full entry
A new list of the top 100 players in the art industry is out from Art Review magazine. Zaha Hadid is 20th; Larry Gagosian is numero uno. Scotsman | Reuters View full entry
Veteran BBC broadcaster John Peel has died at the age of 65, while on holiday in Peru. View full entry
Channel 4 viewers will be asked to identify Britain's worst building in a new four-part reality series which will culminate in a live broadcast of the building's destruction. more inside >> The show is inspired by the succesul BBC series 'Restoration' which identified a number of old... View full entry
A fierce debate sparked among Berliners because a 200-yard stretch of the Wall, once the symbol of a divided Europe, is being rebuilt to ensure that the brutality of the Communist regime is not forgotten. (via ProteinOS) View full entry
Cai Guo Qiang paints a 1,000 foot painting called "Painting Chinese Landscape Painting" with airplanes in San Diego. (NYT) View full entry
Alan Riding reviews this latest exhibition in Italy “Arts and Architecture” , and delves into some history where architecture and art have always shared a transformative power over the city. (NYT) View full entry
Emily Gertz talked to Natalie Jeremijenko about protest tech and other art issues. read View full entry
Another in a long line of eccentric and prolific artists, Wired News profiles Tom Every (aka Dr. Evermor). As with Simon Rodia, and perhaps Alex Jordan, Dr. Evermor has created/built/collected enough large scale art to fill a small city... With each of these men building a fantastic dream on... View full entry
Cornel West review's the work of the late French philosopher and father of deconstruction, Jacques Derrida. (Tavis) View full entry