Art.sy, the art search engine start-up that bills itself as the Pandora for the art world, is coming under fire for its name: the “.sy” suffix is the top-level domain name for the Syrian Arab Republic and those domains must be purchased from the Syrian government. According to an article in Slate, “Art.sy appears to have been breaking United States sanctions against the war-torn country.” Read More

E-flux, the art e-mail service that is campaigning for the “.art” top-level domain name, has created a website devoted to its “vision for .art, and what is at stake for the art community.” Read More

We received an official announcement from e-flux regarding its application for the top-level domain name .art, which they say “will have a serious impact for art practitioners, institutions of art, and art publics world wide.” (If there was any question of the importance of this, e-flux illustrated their press release with Bruegel’s The Tower of Babel to hammer the point home.) Read More

Well here’s an update from Documenta 13, that strange meeting of artists that happens every five years in Kassel, Germany (it opens officially on June 9). It comes from one of our favorite things on the Internet: Simon de Pury’s Twitter feed: Read More