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Volkswagen America is sponsoring the New York Museum Of Modern Art’s eight-night live performance exhibition, which will feature a number of original compositions by electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk, writes Maria Stadtmueller.

London’s Canary Wharf Tube station is the scene for the Canary Wharf Screen, a motion-picture screening programme from Art On The Underground, an initiative which commissions artists to produce work for display on the Underground. The inaugural 2012 series has been programmed in collaboration with Film & Video Umbrella, Animate Projects, LUX and the British Film Institute.

Welcome to the photography of the impossible with Erik Johansson. He aims to create realistic photos of impossible scenes – he captures ideas, not moments (with the help of a software programme called Photoshop. The images maybe be impossible, but Johansson maintains they still have some plausibility.

A mere one in five women are after roses or big romantic gestures for Valentine’s Day – what girls really want is a gift of true value, according to UK charity Women’s Aid, writes Maria Stadtmueller.

So, to mark 14 February, Women’s Aid has partnered with ad agency Grey London to open the Women’s Aid Cabinet of Dreams, with nine valuable gifts displayed in a shopfront in Soho’s Neal Street. Each boasts its own installation from a range of artists, among them Fred Butler, The Last Tuesday Society, Nicole Mueller, Suck & Chew and Francesca Mair.

Tweet Lamps got a public outing in London at the Kinetica Art Fair. What are they? Well, Tweet Lamps come in a deceptively simple formation of a half-dozen light bulbs. They are powered, however, by social media – whenever certain topics are tweeted, a programme picks up the post and the appropriately tagged lamps flash.

Pop-up people are passionate about where they live, often interested in providing opportunities and experiences near to home which historically have meant a journey to a larger nearby town or city, says the Pop-Up People report, written by Dan Thompson for the UK’s Empty Shops Network. Pop-up people use local folk and organisations to build loose, flexible, agile partnerships. They’re willing to bring in people from outside the local area to make the project even better. They’re natural networkers, using word-of-mouth to spread ideas and share knowledge.

Prada teamed with Rem Koolhaas’ design firm AMO and Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli to develop a pop-up museum, the 24 Hours Museum, which opened earlier week for one day – and one day only – in the Palais d’Iena in Paris.

Converse’s move to create its own Brooklyn–based recording studio, Rubber Tracks, to give unsigned bands a leg up chimed with the brand-e Campaigns Panel in 2011, writes Steve Mullins

“This is great example of a brand offering something to a select few of its audience which is of real benefit… but also of genuine interest to the wider fans of Converse, who won’t actually create their own music,” says Lawrence Weber of The Brooklyn Brothers. “It’s great stuff.”