Maine College of Art & Design Announces 2024 MFA Visiting Artist Summer Lecture Series
Students work with a roster of renowned Visiting Artists during an eight-week summer intensive for MECA&D’s MFA in Studio Art.
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Have You Seen A Cybertruck Yet? I saw one yesterday driving through...
Have You Seen A Cybertruck Yet? I saw one yesterday driving through the small town I live in and just burst out laughing. It is a ridiculous vehicle. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
David Marchese interviews Marlon Wayans about grief & comedy. “I miss my...
David Marchese interviews Marlon Wayans about grief & comedy . “I miss my parents dearly, but I’m a different human with my parents gone than I was when they were here. Now I’m a man. I don’t have parents anymore, so I live differently.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
The Milky Way Photographer of the Year Contest Celebrates the Dazzling Band of Light in Our Skies
Whether seen from the craggy mountain landscapes of New Zealand or the vast, arid expanses of the Atacama Desert, the Milky Way is a brilliant band of light that glitters in the night sky above every spot on Earth. A photo contest devoted to our galaxy celebrates the diverse,
What Does It Take to Actually Cook Like a Tradwife?
"Was all of that work actually worth it?"
Today’s music to work to: the solo piano version of Philip Glass’s...
Today’s music to work to: the solo piano version of Philip Glass’s Tales from the Loop score . 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Ayo Edebiri Settles Your Petty Disputes
Well this is delightful: Vanity Fair set up Ayo Edebiri with a selection of personal beefs and several gavels (and maybe there’s a meat tenderizer in there, I don’t know), she listened to both sides of each argument, and then passed judgment. Listen until at least the second
The benefits of cycling: increased longevity and less likely to have osteoarthritis...
The benefits of cycling: increased longevity and less likely to have osteoarthritis and experience knee pain . “I was surprised to see how very strong the benefit was.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Lessons From a Mass Shooter’s Mother
"A decade after her son committed a massacre, Chin Rodger is on a quest to help prevent the next tragedy."
A Remarkable Typeface Resurfaces from the Thames After Being Dumped in the River More than a Century Ago
In 18th- and 19th-century London, the term mudlark was coined to describe someone who scavenged river banks for valuable items. Today, metal detectors aid in the continuing pastime—which now requires a permit—and every once in a while, a modern-day mudlark dredges up a striking
Folk music was never green
Don’t be swayed by the sound of environmental protest: these songs were first sung in the voice of the cutter, not the tree - by Richard Smyth Read at Aeon
Noodling for professionals
When Miles Davis recorded Kind of Blue with his sextet, they spent a total of four days in the recording studio. They created one of the bestselling and most important jazz albums of all time in less than a week. Of course, they’d been exploring for months. In clubs, in front
Medieval Cats Behaving Badly: Kitties That Left Paw Prints … and Peed … on 15th Century Manuscripts
“The more things change, the more they stay the same.” –Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (1808–90) When Emir O. Filipovic, a medievalist at the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, visited the State Archives of Dubrovnik, he stumbled upon something that will hardly
Why Medieval Bologna Was Full of Tall Towers, and What Happened to Them
Image by Toni Pecoraro, via Wikimedia Commons Go to practically any major city today, and you’ll notice that the buildings in certain areas are much taller than in others. That may sound trivially true, but what’s less obvious is that the height of those buildings tends to
Elias Rischmawi Preserves Memory Against Erasure
What happens when home traverses miles — when it’s caught in the sway between one’s homeland and the land one makes a home of?
The Evolution of Hokusai’s Great Wave
The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai is one of the world’s most iconic pieces of art. Hokusai created the woodblock print in 1831 at the age of 71 as part of his series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji . But in some sense, he’d been working on it all of his life. In
Salvaged Scraps of Wood Nest Together in Richard Haining’s Elegant Curved Vessels
In the late aughts, Richard Haining began salvaging leftover wood. While working for a set design company, he realized that the sizable waste generated was also an untapped opportunity for his personal projects. “What I did not have in the way of disposable income, I did have
Behind the ‘Butter Board’: How the Dairy Industry Took Over Your Feed
"A vast constellation of celebrities, from Kelly Ripa to the McDonald’s mascot Grimace, have helped push dairy sales."
The Disrupted Realism of the New King Charles Portrait
The viral painting mirrors a contemporary movement that allows for improvisation and often fuses representation and abstraction in unexpected ways.
La Maison du Pastel
From Business Insider’s series Still Standing , a look at La Maison du Pastel , a 300-year-old French company that makes pastels for artists by hand. Back in its golden age, the company supplied the likes of Monet & Degas but fell into neglect near the end of the 20th century.
Remedios Varo Thrives at the Edges of Perception
Varo’s drawings crack the cold flawlessness of her paintings, and it’s exciting to see the looser, simpler skeletons underneath the surface.
A Japanese Painter’s Cosmic Love Letters to Hawaiʻi
After moving to Honolulu in his early 70s, the Gen'ichirō Inokuma drew inspiration from the rainbows, night sky, and other natural phenomena of his new home.
Where the Construction Site Meets Brancusi’s Studio
Amid a rise in waste dumping, artist Ethan Primason gives discarded items new lives, working intuitively until he finds their new form.
Hyperallergic Mini Art Crossword: May 2024
Chew on a new hot dog sculpture and other bite-sized clues in this month’s mini puzzle.