• Roy Greenslade: Why Murdoch has yet to sue Google - he couldn't win | Media | guardian.co.uk "Murdoch is really engaged in a paid-content propaganda campaign. Shafer evidently agrees, arguing that Murdoch is shouting about paywalls to signal to his competitors "his desperate desire for them to follow." But there is a flaw to erecting a floor-to-ceiling paywall even at the Wall Street Journal - which already charges for access while allowing non-paying visitors to view some content - because it would block Google and thereby lose the paper's website 25% of its traffic. Shafer also calls into question Murdoch's argument about the need to recoup the costs of providing quality...

Aqua, the spectacular new Chicago skyscraper with the sensuous, undulating balconies, is the pearl of the long-running, now-ending Chicago building boom, a design that is as fresh conceptually as it is visually. A skyscraper typically consists of repetitive, right-angled parts, a money-saving...

The Eyewriter from Evan Roth on Vimeo.

Members of Free Art and Technology (FAT), OpenFrameworks, the Graffiti Research Lab, and The Ebeling Group communities have teamed-up with a legendary LA graffiti writer, publisher and activist, named Tony Quan, aka TEMPTONE. Tony was diagnosed with ALS in 2003, a disease which has left him almost completely physically paralyzed… except for his eyes. This international team is working together to create a low-cost, open source eye-tracking system that will allow ALS patients to draw using just their eyes. The long-term goal is to create a professional/social network of software developers, hardware hackers, urban projection artists...

“Pink Tons” by Roni Horn (Photo: Hauser & Wirth Hermann Feldhaus/Hauser & Wirth) From a review of the Roni Horn show at the Whitney: Ms. Horn’s work has both benefited and suffered from being what might be called “curators’ art.” Curators’ art is indisputably, even innocuously, elegant —...

E: Hey, where’s that blog post you were going to finish two weeks ago? A: I, uh, have been working on it. E: Really? It looked to me like you were watching movies. A: I was refreshing my memory. E: Uh huh. What's this post about then? A: It's about Jean-Luc Godard. And it's done. Stills ...

Dash Shaw and David Mazzucchelli. I know, I know, a ton of cartoonists have done the same thing with the balloon tails. But I thought this was funny.

Best in Show Malachi Ward Zack Soto Brandon Graham George Mensah John Pham Grant Reynolds Various Frank Santoro here. My notes for last week's APE show. I think this about sums it up. Fun festival. Sure has changed tho' in 15 years. I'll say one thing: Comic-Con running it seems like a good...

John Berry's paintings, for me are about painting, the role of the painter, and how we, the viewer interacts with the painting. To my surprise when reading his statement, I found his ideas about his approach to making his work is how I see his work. This is always a plus as an artist...

After a few weeks, the accumulating debt owed to sleep, the darkness coming to dominate mornings and evenings (and, just ahead, the sharp plunge into commuting night as we leave British Summer Time), the first of the early morning ice...