Fermilab scientists in Illinois hold pajama party celebrating activation of collider near Geneva I love this story. I had tears in my eyes before I had barely begun reading it, and they're still ...

Marcius Galan Isolante (quadrada)/Isulated (square) 2006 painted metal 55" x 52" x 36.75" [installation view] Edgard de Souza Tigelinha (grupo I) 2004 cow skin 23.75" x 35.5" x 4" [installation ...

Brock Enright Untitled 2008 [detail of installation, with small wooden objects "Computer 1" on the left, "Computer 2" on the right] [large detail] Robert Longo [his new ArtCat site is coming soo...

This is what the sky looked like above a mid-nineteenth-century warehouse on a breezy West 27th Street around 7 o'clock last night. The rains arrived hours later.

For years we've been horrified by what's been coming out of the Republican camp, but now we can take a laugh break. I found the first of these four videos through the New York magazine blog site w...

I know it's almost two months away, but if your calendar fills up like my calendar does, and if you already know how worthy this operation is, you'll appreciate knowing now that the 2008 NURTUREart...

an early image of the "Me Worry?" kid, possibly from the 1920s according to Wikipedia Going back at least as far as The Yellow Kid, we've always had our Alfred E. Neumans, but we never used to mak...

The Minnesota September 1st "March on the RNC and Stop the War" began in St. Paul at 11am local time today (CDT is one hour earlier than New York). Marchers planned to start with a rally at the s...

National Guardsmen firing into demonstrators during the 1894 Chicago Pullman strike* [contemporary Harpers Weekly drawing] [six years ago today I did an entry titled "the real meaning of Labor Da...

<img src="/assets/2008/08/Minneapolis_arrests_1.jpg" width="600" height="359" alt="Minneapolis_arrests_1.jpg"/ right there in River City A throng of media members and interested observers crowd...