Fantastic Zoology: the full text of Borges' Book of Imaginary Beings, illustrated by students of the Vakalo School of Art and Design. [via Incoming Signals]
Soundstage Audio Theatre: you might say I'm biased, and you'd probably be right, but these guys are good.
Cultural Loss in Lower Manhattan: on a new report, Cataclysm and Challenge, by Heritage Preservation on the loss of historical artifacts in the World Trade Center collapse. [via dangerousmeta]
The Google AdWords Happening: on one man's attempt to publish poetry in Google's AdWords. [via Vincent's Glossblog]
The Google AdWords Happening: on one man's attempt to publish poetry in Google's AdWords. [via Vincent's Glossblog]
Diminutive, but perfectly formed: Umberto Eco discusses art in the short form as he reviews Isabella Pezzini's book Trailers, Ads, Clips, Websites, Banners: The Short Forms of Audiovisual Communication, which appears to be only available in French. [via Arts & Letters Daily]
Afghanistan looks at itself: a photo essay on the return of theatre, television, and photography to Afghanistan. Note: the slideshow goes full screen, but provides a close button.
In the wake of the Taliban's departure, Afghanistan has begun once more to look at itself, through lenses of its antiquated TV cameras, through tentative stabs at restarting and rebuilding theatre, through cinema and through photographers wielding homemade portrait cameras on the streets of Kabul.
Martin Creed's work Lights Going On and Off, which features two flashing lights in an empty room, won England's Turner Prize. The prize, which awards £20,000 is for British artists under 50, was presented by Madonna. The choice has resulted in some controversy, as has Madonna's choice of words during the presentation. Courtesy of Metafilter, here's an interview with Creed along with photos of the work in both it's on and off state.
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