August 2010
“Different levels of government have imposed rules concerning some iconic landmarks, including Sydney Harbour, the city’s Bondi Beach and Uluru in the north, once known as Ayer’s Rock. Photographers…
“A few people reported a funny smell on the premises and had mild irritation to the throat and eyes. No treatment from paramedics was necessary and we do not know at this stage the cause of it.”…
“Fashioning itself as an ACLU for those charged with graffiti-related crimes, the group plans to raise legal funds, create a database of attorneys and even attempt to turn some of the city’s…
This year’s Future Exhibitions aims at highlighting the exhibition’s spatial relationship to the visitor. How can architecture, stage design and technical innovation enhance the…
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Wim Delvoye plaatst gotische toren op dak Bozar — brusselnieuws.be
Brussel heeft er sinds zaterdag een gotische toren bij. Op het dak van het Paleis voor Schone Kunsten prijkt een zeventien…
Ethereal Bolshoi Ballet star Natalia Osipova, arguably the world’s prima ballerina, slipped into a rehearsal studio at Orange County Performing Arts Center looking tired.
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Eadweard Muybridge | Photography review | Art and design | The Observer
Whether showing us what water droplets look like when hurled from a bucket, or revealing the slow, destructive hand of…
The Twitter Tweekly is back! These are the best of my Twitter tweets for the past week or so — cleaned up for easier blog reading.
ART MARKETING STUFFCount the number of personal…
Beck brought his traveling demagoguery circus to the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, and in the process restored, if not honor, then at least his reputation as a slippery and…
“Franklin, 49-years-old and a native of Quebec, is an expert on Italian Renaissance and baroque art. He recently organized several major exhibits on Bernini, Parmigianino and Michelangelo while…
Christopher Knight: “The dynamic 2006 building designed for Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art contains one serious flaw. Unfortunately, it appears that architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro are…
Wright built only four of his innovative “textile block” houses, all in Southern California. Two of them, La Miniatura and the Ennis House, have been on the market for more than a year without…
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Une partie d’une église sert de mosquée pour les musulmans | RTBF INFO
Depuis 2006, l’église Saint-Etienne du Terraillon, située à Bron, en banlieue de Lyon (France) accueille dans son…
“To an area where emerging-art galleries occupy storefronts and cramped walk-up spaces, Sperone Westwater will bring an eight-story sliver designed by Sir Norman Foster with laminated-glass facade,…
I couldn’t wait to share this email that I got from Kirsty Hall. With her permission …
This email shows that Kirsty is human (she messed up, she admits it, and…
It would be understating the case to say that Los Angeles is well represented at this year’s Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy.
It would be understating the case to say that Los Angeles is well…
Thursday was probably the first day anyone heard a vuvuzela played with a symphony orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl.
Thursday was probably the first day anyone heard a vuvuzela played with a symphony…
Veronika Krausas’ “The Mortal Thoughts of Lady Macbeth,” lasting just over half an hour, for soprano and three witches, falls somewhere between a scena and a one-act opera.
Veronika Krausas’ “The…
Hamlisch, the celebrated Oscar-, Tony- and Emmy-winning composer, will take on the role of principal pops conductor of the Pasadena Pops beginning in 2011, the orchestra said Friday.
Marvin…
Reporting from Maui —
Martin Creed, Work No. 928, 2008, courtesy of The Guardian.
As part of the Edinburgh Arts Festival, Fruitmarket is honoring one of Britain’s most popular and esteemed…
Ted Gibson’s framing and art store is moving from its original 1946 site on 7th Street to Koreatown.
The stretch of 7th Street just west of Hoover is a no-man’s land between Koreatown, MacArthur…
Impression / Photofestival 2010
The Noorderlicht International Photofestival 2010 will open on Sunday, 5 September, in the Fries Museum. In Land -…
The interplay between spoken word and music is explored in new releases of works by John Cage, Terry Riley, Olga Neuwirth, Scott Johnson and Peter Boyer.
Chris Anderson thinks the internet is dead, this should prove him wrong:
via, C-Monster.net
The architects’ past work make it seem like it’s going to be a long schlep from the front door to the art galleries.
The architects’ past work make it seem like it’s going to be a long schlep from…
For sale signs are out on two of four textile-block homes built by Frank Lloyd Wright, but both are languishing on the market.
You don’t need to be an architect to understand how La Miniatura in…
When is following Twitter during a classical concert not considered rude? How about when the orchestra expressly asks you to?
When is following Twitter during a classical concert not considered…
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Make your own bike lane
Inspired by an urban street painting intervention in Berlin, the Helsinki based collective Länsiväylä asked people to join a guerilla operation to paint a bike lane on…
“Claes Oldenburg’s Giant Three-Way Plug, Scale A, a nearly 10-foot-long electric plug, a cube tap grown to monstrous proportions, [is] now protruding from a grassy knob outside the [Philadelphia…
John Baldessari, What was Seen, via Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Currently on view at Los Angeles County Museum of Art is “Pure Beauty,” a retrospective of work by …
Mark Roberts’ play offers a straightforward confrontation with domestic distress in a sincerely acted production.
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ELEKTRA in KOREA / Elektra en CORÉE - blog.elektramontreal.ca
ELEKTRA is invited in Korea to present several artists within two differents events taking place between August, 28 and September…
