Underwater Gnome Threat ‘Returns’: shudder.
(Filed under ‘when art installations attack’)[…]

Superheroes and Philosophy: how you react to this project will depend on how you react to a sentence like:
Tom Morris is the most active public philosopher of our day, and is author of sixteen previous books, including Philosophy for Dummies, The Art[…]

GF Watts
Among the green waves of the North Downs and straight outta the tiny village of Compton is the GF Watts Gallery. No more than a coaching post between Guildford and Godalming, it is a quiet rural place with an extraordinary gallery. ‘Ce[…]

FIVE POINTS
by Tyler Anbinder
New York City lore is something I know a bit of but couldn’t care much about otherwise — this is because I’m a horrible person, of course — but more to the point it’s generally alien to my e[…]

HIDDEN LONDON #2: Bell Green, Catford
erm i don’t know much more about than that it exists – which i didn’t know even this morning – but on my way through it from bromley back to london bridge my TRAIN HIT A TREE!!
branches […]

Walls
http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/personalities/fleeting/index.htmlMarshall
Sokoloff’s fotos are large-scale c prints of graffiti that havebeen painted over by civil authorities in places like Toronto andPortland. The great thing is […]

Shark
Apparently Damien Hirst’s shark is falling apart in his tank, and it is almost impossible for conservators to fix it–he got bad advice in he beginning, and now the New York museum of Modern Art has hired the curator of fish from the[…]

DC Comics’ marketing department are really giving it some at the moment. Imagine my surprise when I opened up the Guardian this morning to see a great big piece (with large 3-panel excerpt) on Grant Morrison’s new Vinamarama miniseries! Y[…]

War on pants!
“That’s why they’re called undergarments…they’re supposed to be worn under something else.”
Superman was unavailable for comment.[…]

Plowing The Dark by Richard Powers
I was discussing spoilers yesterday with Anthony Easton. This was in the context of movie reviews, but it had been on my mind thinking about this novel that I had just finished. The main strand is of a bunch of hots[…]