Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Live crab vending, sound sculptures, an app for healthy food shopping and more in our week's worth of links

1. Paris vs New York, A Tally of Two Cities A recent NYC transplant from Paris copes with culture shock by creating a lovely blog of simple graphics showing how the cities compare and contrast. Pitted against each other are Le Pain, La Peste, Le Tip and more in this friendly feud. 2. New York: Portrait of a City From heavenly images of Grand Central …

Lights, Geometry and Kinetics at Frieze 2010

Fractal sculptures take center stage at London's biggest art fair

With the resurgence of handmade and traditional craftsmanship consuming the design industry, it came as no surprise that this year’s Frieze Art Fair was filled with beautifully-executed DIY style—from artworks as text to compositions crafted from beads. Juxtaposed against the handmade charm however, an exciting theme of lights and kinetic geometry married art and science for an innovative approach to sculpture. Olafur Eliasson‘s “Untitled Sphere” …

Hell’s Half Acre

Frieze meets hell in a theatrically re-imagined Dante's Inferno

There was a lot of competition for the artistic limelight during London’s recent Frieze Art Fair 2010. Each year the art festival throws up more and more peripheral shows that vie for attention with the great art behemoth, but this year the greatest creative noise was generated by the outsiders who went underground. An impromptu reconstruction of Dante’s Inferno, “Hell’s Half Acre” took place deep …