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Melvyn Bragg is presented with the Outstanding Achievement prize at the last ever South Bank Show Awards. Read the original article on the BBC

A woman who was taking an art class at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art accidentally falls into a Picasso painting and damages it. Read the original article on the BBC

Grammy award-winning US pianist Earl Wild dies at the age of 94 from congestive heart disease. Read the original article on the BBC

Police in Cyprus break up a smuggling ring that was trying to sell stolen antiquities worth more than 11m euros (£9.6m). Read the original article on the BBC

Award-winning Canadian author Paul Quarrington dies peacefully at his home in Toronto, from lung cancer. Read the original article on the BBC

Previously: Community Performance in Google Street View and 20.12.53 – 10.08.04. Beate Gütschow, S#14, 2005 Last week i introduced briefly Manipulating Reality, a show that ran until January 17 at CCCS in Florence. This truly enjoyable exhibition explored the way photographic images and videos represent reality as much as they can construct and betray it. [...]

I spent quite a bit of virtual ink on Manipulating Reality, a show that closed about a week ago at CCCS in Florence: Community Performance in Google Street View and 20.12.53 – 10.08.04. This exhibition explored the way photographic images and videos represent reality as much as they can construct and betray it. One of [...]

Lyon’s 10th Biennale for Contemporary Art, titled The Spectacle of the Everyday, closed on January 3, 2010. There were so many works and ideas i wanted to blog about that i didn’t write anything. So far. While i’m working on the big Biennale post, here’s a few words about two works by one of today’s [...]

Craftwerk 2.0: New Household Tactics for the Popular Crafts, an exhibition curated by Clara Åhlvik and Otto von Busch for the Jönköping county museum in Sweden, has been prolonged to March 21, 2010. Image by Cross-stitch ninja a.k.a. Maria Halvarson I’m going to get out of my comfort zone and write about an exhibition which, [...]

Photo credit: Nick Ballon Super-Kamiokande (Super K) is an underground neutrino observatory in Japan. 1000 meters under the surface of the earth, a tank containing 50,000 tons of extremely pure water and surrounded by over eleven thousands golden photomultiplier tubes keeps watch for supernovas in our galaxy. The photomultiplier tubes register the amount of light [...]