From e-Flux:

Zilvinas Kempinas.
Tube, 2008
Installation view, Atelier Calder, France

Žilvinas Kempinas will represent Lithuania at the 53rd Venice Biennale of International Art

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fourfold program
by elizabeth travelslight

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chinese new year in daly city: dim sum + polvoron

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“I think for some reason we are unwilling to honor people who are politically active. We want to honor people who just have had enough and sort of spontaneously won’t take it any more. But somehow if they get categorized as active citizens, … then somehow it becomes self-serving, part of a movement which we’re less comfortable with.”

Tim Tyson, scholar, in a great segment on Rosa Parks

“Tabula Rosa”
On the Media, NPR, January 23, 2009

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The strange history of lorem ipsum (5:15)
Alex Gallafent, The World, PRI, January 26, 2009