Great new site for the Brookings Institution!

Gang Drawings, by Alan Saret...

This looks excellent. The article includes a slideshow about the exhibition.

Quoted: You walk into darkened space where a tumbling aqua-lighted waterfall seems to descend from the ceiling; letters projected on its turbulent surface spell “water” in multiple languages.

Quoted: SculptureCenter is pleased to present Illusion, a solo exhibition by Jeppe Hein. Illusion will be on view September 9–November 25, 2007 with an opening reception on Sunday, September 9, 4–6 pm. Hein will present a major new work, 360º Illusion, created specifically for SculptureCenter's dramatic central space and four works from the series, Modified Social Benches.

Wish I could go to this.

Quoted: Poetryfoundation.org and McSweeney's host a reading with poets Kwame Dawes, Mary Karr, Yusef Komunyakaa, Patricia Smith, and Rachel Zucker. In addition to reading from their own work, the poets will be invited to share with the audience the best poem they have read in the past year. A book signing will follow the reading.

The New Museum reopens on December 1st!

Quoted: The New Museum is delighted to annouce Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa/ SANAA Ltd. as architects of the our new building on the Bowery.

Dan Cameron, former curator for the New Museum, has organized an international biennial to be held next October in New Orleans.

Quoted: With commitments from venues throughout the city and a roster of artists from around the world, the exhibition aims to reinvigorate the city by promoting tourism and drawing international attention to its cultural life.

Showing along with an exhibition of storyboards and other production material...

Quoted: a chance to see the 15-and-a-half-hour epic—an adaptation of Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel of the same title—in more digestible pieces beginning October 21, when P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center screens each episode within a single innovative exhibition.

This symposium takes place on September 28-29 at the Architectural League and the MoMA in New York.

Quoted: Following the seminal “Heritage at Risk” conference held in Moscow in April 2006, this symposium addresses pressing issues in the preservation of the modernist legacy of the most significant edifices built by radical Soviet architects in the 1920s and 1930s. Through two keynote addresses, six case studies, and a roundtable...