screenshot from the Foreign Policy website We live in an urban age, for the first time in history the human species has become prevalently urban. The general assumption – backed by figures – is that the number of people set to live in cities will continue to grow, the acceleration unstoppable. In this article, Urban [...]

image from Lapham’s Quarterly website In an excellent essay Is The Myth of City Life More Significant than the Real City Itself? the editor of Lapham’s Quarterly, Lewis H. Lapham, argues that the illusion of the city maybe as real as the physical city, he explains that as playgrounds for the human imagination cities are [...]

Painting Reality is the work of Dutch performance artist IEPE and an anonymous crew who on April 25 2010 ‘dumped’ 500 cans of waterbased environmentally-friendly paint onto the asphalt of the busy junction, Rosenthaler Platz, in Berlin and let passing cars do the rest. The result a giant Pollock-esque painting of coloured – red, yellow, [...]