Tag Archives: architecture

Urban development check: can Karachi build castles on dung heaps?

Posted on June 17, 2011 by

KARACHI: “We think we’re going to build castles on top of dung heaps? Karachi is a katchi-abadi city, a city of squatters, slums,” said Roland deSouza, an engineer and speaker at a seminar by the urban activist group SHEHRI-CBE. On Thursday … Continue reading →

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Living Walls Conference Interview, Part 1

Posted on July 16, 2010 by

A component in the all-around amazing time I had in Atlanta last weekend, I talked to Blacki Li Rudi Migliozzi and Monica Campana about Living Walls, a scrappy, grassroots conference of street artists, culture jammers, filmmakers, flash lecturers and even … Continue reading →

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Art News Digest

Posted on June 4, 2010 by

MOCA’s Dennis Hopper retrospective becomes a memorial, Kate Moss’s stolen Banksy, and Rome’s first Modern Art museum were among the week’s headlines. Keep reading at ArtWeLove.

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Art News Digest

Posted on May 17, 2010 by

Italian researchers say they are but a ghostly whisper from identifying the 400-year-old bones of Caravaggio—just two more weeks and they should have the results of DNA tests. If they’ve found the bones, they might be able to determine the … Continue reading →

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Art News Digest

Posted on May 11, 2010 by

Picasso breaks Giacometti’s record, the Met is promised a $10 million fountain, and architecture for the people were among this week’s headlines.

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