Actually they're nickels, giant nickels. Third year OCAD student Kevin Radigan's intervention outside the AGO pokes fun at Bruce Mau's blustery and sometimes pompous Massive Change exhibit which we've reviewed. Fortunately for Radigan, the folks at the AGO have a sense of humour and are even talking about making the installation permanent rather than over-reacting at his tongue in cheek work. Thanks to Sally McKay for the link and photo. Also, spring means another rash......

Bruce Mau's exhibit Massive Change, which takes over the AGO until May 29, scares me. It's not Avigdor Cahaner's featherless chicken or the sexing up of military design that's got me a little freaked out by Bruce Mau's exhibit/manifesto. What scares me is the blind faith that Mau puts in design and technology. It starts from the moment you walk and a sign poses the question "Now that we can do anything, what will we......

This week marks the countdown to next weekend’s opening of the much-anticipated and much-debated Massive Change exhibit at the AGO. Everyone has criticized Mau’s bizarrely utopian and woolly optimism. Mau’s 2001 book, Life Style, focused on shaping design’s role in individual lives, recognizing that ‘lifestyle’ in the post-war period had come to be defined solely in terms of consumptive patterns rather than class or occupation. The argument was loosely patched together by brilliant aesthetic design......