David Byrne's installation 'Playing The Building' is at the Roundhouse in London from the 8th - 31st August.


The work consists of an old pump organ with a series of low-tech cables and wires attached to the building’s pillars, pipes and beams. These vibrate and resonate in response to the organ keys, and the building itself becomes a giant musical instrument.

More information about the work can be seen on David Byrne's website.

I saw this image by Alex Steinweiss, made in 1940, over at UPPERCASE - it is associated with an exhibition in Paris called "The Jazz Century", which is on show at Musee du Quai Branly. There are other images from the show here.

The Art of Lost Words is an exhibition of design, typography and illustration inspired by forgotten words.

Shown above is Geoff Grandfield's interpretation of the word 'antelucan', meaning 'before dawn or daylight'.

The Art Of Lost Words runs until 9 March at The German Gymnasium, Pancras Road, London NW1 (opposite St Pancras International station). Proceeds from sold work go towards the National Lieracy Fund.

Via Computerlove.

All good things must come to an end, indeed. The fabulously colourful and cartoonish exhibition 'All Good Things..." by artists Timothy Berg and Rebekah Myers focuses on this fact. I also like the descriptive text found on Timothy Berg's website:

Things disappear.
Sometimes things disappear as the result of an accident.
Sometimes neglect causes things to disappear.
Sometimes things are intentionally made to disappear.
One’s understanding of disappearance is the result of a specific perspective. In reality most things do not disappear they simply transform. When they are transformed beyond recognition they are said to have disappeared.

Via shape+color.

Hew Locke has some new work and a new exhibition called 'Kingdom of the Blind', featuring his magnificent wall drawings and sculptures - these are made up from hundreds of tiny pound shop and market-bought objects such as miniature plastic animals, doll parts, fake weapons and sequins.

His work follows the themes of power and cultural identity, questioning them by subverting the iconography related to them.

According to the Iniva website, Locke's new exhibition "brings together these formal and thematic elements of his practice to create his first ever ‘museum display' - a fictional collection of the possessions of an imaginary ruler".

The installation depicts the fictional leader's rise to power, Locke's figures enacting moments of victory in battle and resembling elaborate votive objects.

The exhibition is on from 03.09.08 - 20.10.08 at Rivington Place in London.