News from the Home Front

AM New York, Atlanta INtown, the San Francisco Daily. The traditional newspaper may be dying, but free news sheets like these are thriving. In London, countless copies of City A.M., London Lite, and thelondonpaper litter the city’s tube trains each morning, few of them destined for recycling. Enter Cyprus-born conceptual artist Sumer Erek, who specializes in interactive installations. In March, Erek and his collaborators rolled up 120,000 free news sheets as building blocks for a 12-foot-tall house, which he put on display in the London district of Hackney. “We are losing the space we live, work, and function in,” Erek says. “We are filling it up with our waste.” After a week, his point made, he dismantled the structure -- to be recycled, of course.