The month of May is devoted to the ecstatic moment. Sample some on Sunday at the Can Factory.

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Singularities, which are fascinating, have been peered into recently and new discoveries are made into how to retrieve information from black holes.

Through Ray Kurzweil’s website, comes This fascinating article:

Physicists at Penn State have provided a mechanism by which information can be recovered from black holes, those regions of space where gravity is so strong that, according to Einstein’s theory of general relativity, not even light can escape. The team’s findings pave the way toward ending a decades-long debate sparked by renowned physicist Steven Hawking.

“Once you consider quantum gravity, then space-time becomes much larger and there is room for information to reappear in the distant future on the other side of what was first thought to be the end of space-time.”

Are you serious? What does that mean? Information is being spit into the future and we have to wait for it? Is this a LOST theory?

Ray Kurzweil’s technological singularity borrows the principle to describe a point in the near future when technology begins to increase along Moore’s Law so rapidly that the outcome is impossible to predict, or something.

A classic, via The Moment, which attempted a kind of high-brow survey, asking people to send in their fave videos about “dancing about architecture. This was Andreas Angelidakis’s submission. (He’s the guy that did these interesting buildings in second life.) After the jump, a nice but somewhat static video Angelidakis made, inspired by Nomi:

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A show of new works at David Zwirner, through June 21. To my mind, Rauch basically never misses, but this stuff feels like the artist near the top of this game—much stronger than the somewhat muted show last year commissioned by the Met.

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New works up at Andrea Rosen, until June 14. Almetjd used to do a lot of loosely organized installations involving lots of architectural elements—boxes upon boxes, lattices, stacks of cubes. But here he’s going straight for the human figure—which used to get glancing treatment, usually as a decaying body sprouting crystals. This stuff almost reminds me of Greek Kouroi. Another view of the installation, plus other, awesome, older works:

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A guide to the artists shortlisted for the 2008 Turner Award.

What ever happened to Mr Gay UK, 1993? Oh yeah, he’s been eating people.

The Vatican says it’s okay to believe in aliens. (What would an Alien Jesus look like?)

A documentary called Cannibal Tours, which follows a bunch of tourists journeying into a fake Heart of Darkness.

An Aussie, busted for buckling up his case of beer and leaving his kid unstrapped.

In Japan, eating innocent people can make you a star.

Image: Cathy Wilkes, one of the new Turner Prize finalists.

Italian street artist/muralist/whatever BLU just posted a pretty mind-blowing animation. Excellent drawings of a constantly morphing body-horror odyssey are animated on walls, streets, sidewalks, etc in Buenos Aires. His site blublu.org is worth a look too.

Ryan Johnson, a DG-fave has a show up now. Some of the new works remind me of Ed Keinholz, who also had a thing for keys and clocks as heads. More images:

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Charmingly absurd light bulb ad from Thailand, via CalamityJon at the MonsterManual LJ community.