Why Should E-Books Have To Be Like Books? Why Not Like, Say, Trading Cards?

Reading an e-book “still feels like, well, reading a book: tabbing through pages, digesting information linearly.” But the tech company Semi-Linear’s new Citia iPad app “reinvents long-form non-fiction for the tablet, turning books into something that resembles less a sequence of chapters and more a digital spread of sharable, customizable, collectible cards.”

Art Of Destruction

“Dedicated to creating works that reflect the fear and anxieties of a post-9/11 world–or at least challenge the notion that an artwork must withstand the test of time–many artists are incorporating elements of obliteration in their work. Not all of the productions are violent; some are simply chilling in their subtle references to everyday occurrences.”

Sports Painter LeRoy Neiman, 91

“The accessible works of art he painted depicted sports and other leisure activities with bold, distinctive strokes on a canvas that invariably brimmed with color. He was so successful that as early as 1976 The [L.A.] Times called him ‘in market terms … a bigger success than Rembrandt – or any other painter’.”