My dad put this up last week. It's an investigation into the life of a friend of the family. A painter in hiding (lived in an attic with no light for 8 years), Santiago Montes was imprisoned at the end of the civil war, going on to make copies of original Prado works that were so good they bemused critics.

New documentary film on this free jazz pioneer. Screening at ICA in London.

Boat megastructures.

Renew your faith in Excel with Excel art.

Simon Reynolds surveys the musical landscape and picks out, um, dark stuff (metal, noise, dubstep) as the new trend.

Surprise! The RIAA are out of touch with the culture industry. Here they try to argue the cost of a compact disc as an attractive consumer proposition, despite consumers around the world feeling otherwise and showing it through their purchasing behaviour. Hear that? It's the sound of the RIAA humming to themselves with an index finger in each ear...