Forget snooty academics and museum eggheads. Here's a chance for you to make your own assessment of what is art or not  on this online art gallery. Not only that, you can also submit your own original work -- and whatever else you might want to parade before the cyber-critics -- and see what others think. And even if you have yet to sell a piece on your own, you may be able to turn your sketches into cash. Every two weeks, winners are announced and once a month, prize money is paid out. The project, say founders, will continue as long as users participate.



A World Beyond Terror

Friday, March 11 will mark the one-year anniversary of the violent terrorist attacks in Madrid which killed 191 people and wounded 1,900 as al-Qaida bombs ripped through rush-hour commuter trains. Church bells from over 650 churches in Spain will begin ringing at 7:37 a.m. -- the exact time the bombs began going off last year -- and five minutes of silence will be observed in front of all public buildings at noon. A number of ceremonies will also be held.

Yet despite the shock that still resonates through Spanish society, one thing that is not likely to happen on Friday is any racist-related violence against Muslims. In fact, as Oxford Professor Timothy Garton Ash points out in an essay  in Thursday's Guardian, Spain has been remarkably successful in not allowing the March 11 attacks to snowball into anti-Muslim violence. Madrid, with its large Muslim population, is not without racial tension, but, Garton Ash wonders, if Spain can show us what life beyond terror looks like.

A Balkan War Journal

More than a decade later, the Bosnian war is still in the news. On Wednesday, a war crimes court in Bosnia officially began the gruelling work of finding and indicting those responsible for the worst atrocities in Europe since World War II. The newly opened war crimes court was created to take the burden off the International Criminal Court in The Hague, which has been bogged down by cases from the former Yugoslavia. On Wednesday, The Hague Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte attended the court's opening ceremony. Clearly, she'll be glad to have a few less horrors to adjudicate. In honor of the new court, we've picked out a Web site called Blood and Honey  that chronicles the tragic cycle of the Balkan wars through photographic essays by renowned photographer Ron Haviv. Haviv also published a photo book of the same name. Haviv's photos offer more than just a war journal, they bear witness to the human loss and depravity that characterized the bloody conflict.