"with the garden as metaphor and inspiration, los angeles comes together for a fusion exhibition / fair / convention / party / happening / meeting / classroom / exhibit / town square / performance to experiment, meditate and speculate on our current and future ecologies." The GardenLAb Experiment... View full entry
'Wired' covers MIT's 'Center for Bits and Atoms' newest project "Fab Labs", which sets up hands-on laboratories in places to provide the technology needed to build just about anything from inexpensive and readily available materials. The latest is in Ghana. Read more here. View full entry
Every year six international artists create site specific work in one of six towns in Tuscany...To give birth to a new form of equilibrium between the city and the countryside and to create new links between Art, Architecture and Landscape. Arte All'Arte 9 begins September 17th. View full entry
This morning my Icon issue 16 arrived with the rest of the post. It is thick. 1.2 Kg. There is lot of everything in it. I am sure you guys will like it. The mag is titled 'Icon in America'. View full entry
Video Game and Hip Hop culture have colluded into "another bad creation" which continues to question what is the agenda of a HipHop Nation when Russell Simmons continues to make stupefying junk. View full entry
At the Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation a new exhibit has begun: ”Territories, Fronts and the Architecture of War”, focuses on the construction of the frontier as a concept in contemporary geo-politics, which can no longer be considered just a solid line between two... View full entry
This article talks with New York-based artist Vito Acconci about his newer work focusing on architectural interventions that allows people to take public space back into their own hands. A retrospective of his work has begun at the the St. Paul Street Gallery which he launched as part of the AUT... View full entry
Brazillian born artist Solange Fabiao is taking her projection installation "Transitio" to Beirut's funky landmark Beirut Center City Building, 'the bubble', once set for demolition but now getting a makeover from architect Bernard Khoury. View full entry
UC Berkeley represents with Online Lectures and Events. View full entry
Professor, culture critic, and social justice advocate Cornel West speaks on Democracy Now. View full entry
CNN discusses Ground Zero and Sacred Ground, the feature airing tonight on PBS. View full entry
Yahoo.co.uk have chosen their top picks for best internet caf�s in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the first internet caf� in London. Read View full entry
Howard Decker, the knowledgeable, affable chief curator at the National Building Museum for the past four years, abruptly resigned this week. His last day at the museum was yesterday. The chief curator position has now been eliminated. Washingtonpost View full entry
More on the metropolis Wi-Fi scramble: Amsterdam, Philadelphia, London, and Cleveland(!) could all learn from Paris. | iht View full entry
NYTimes : It's hard to imagine a better time or place than this election year and the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati to mount the exhibition "Crimes and Misdemeanors: Politics in U.S. Art of the 1980's." What more symbolic venue could there be for a show about yesteryear's culture wars? View full entry