Project 2025 would be a disaster for the environment. “It would be...
Project 2025 would be a disaster for the environment . “It would be game over for climate progress in the US, turning the reins of our government over to the polluters.”
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Stunning Pale-Blue Frescoes Found in Pompeii
The Ancient Roman room, thought to have been used as a shrine for ritual activities, is estimated to date back approximately 2,000 years.
What’s Up With Those Park Avenue Sculptures of Men Missing Body Parts?
Bruno Catalano’s bronze figures are a devastatingly hyper-literal and heavy-handed interpretation of loss.
Most NY Artists Are Financially Unstable, Survey Finds
More than half of respondents said they earned under $25,000 a year.
The Terrifying Project 2025
Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich on Project 2025 , the extremist conservative plan for America if Trump wins the 2024 election — a wish-list to continue their fascist takeover of America. One key goal of Project 2025 is to purge all government agencies of anyone more
A Close Look at Caravaggio’s Last Painting
Just two paintings are in The Last Caravaggio , both in perplexed mourning over their subject matter, and both emerging from dark places.
Healing Japanese Art for the End Times
A show of Japanese art at The Met suggests that things might not work out for us in our own end times, but it’s worth trying.
‘A Ship From Guantánamo’ Navigates the Profoundly Creative Sculptures of an Artist Imprisoned Since 2002
“When I start an artwork, I forget I’m in prison,” says Moath al-Alwi, presumably recorded from within Guantánamo Bay in a short documentary. Directed and produced by Dara Kell and Veena Rao for The New York Times Op-Docs series, the film zeroes in on al-Alwi’s elaborate ship
How to Stop Fascism: Five Lessons of the Nazi Takeover
From Timothy Snyder again , this time on what lessons we can draw on to prevent America’s collapse into fascism . 4. Big business should support democracy. In the Germany of the 1930s, business leaders were not necessarily enthusiastic about Hitler as a person. But they
Fascism and Fear and the Media
Historian and scholar Timothy Snyder, who wrote On Tyranny and this amazing piece about the fascism of Trump and the conservative movement, wrote about a crucial difference in how the media are covering Biden versus how they cover Trump . It should seem odd that media calls to
Site Santa Fe Presents Teresita Fernández / Robert Smithson
Co-curated by Teresita Fernández and Lisa Le Feuvre, Executive Director of Holt/Smithson Foundation, this exhibition places two artistic practices in an intergenerational conversation.
The Forgotten Black Explorers Who Transformed Americans’ Understanding of the Wilderness. Esteban,...
The Forgotten Black Explorers Who Transformed Americans’ Understanding of the Wilderness . Esteban, York and James Beckwourth charted the American frontier between the 16th and 19th centuries. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
In Search Of The Continent’s Largest Shorebird
"Transcendent experiences, after all, are rare."
Thirteen Prodigious Sculptures Nestle Among the Trees in ‘La Forêt Monumentale’
Along the Seine in the thicket of Roumare Forest, an installation of thirteen striking sculptures celebrates France’s woodland heritage and ongoing preservation efforts. The handful of selected works, chosen from an open call that received more than 300 applications from 33
We Talking About Practice
From Heather Cox Richardson, writing on the night of the debate , a reminder of just how bad Trump’s performance was, a shambolic spectacle that was met with shrugs because that’s what we expect of him: In contrast, Trump came out strong but faded and became less coherent over
An interesting teaser trailer for F1, the racing drama starring Brad Pitt...
An interesting teaser trailer for F1 , the racing drama starring Brad Pitt — it’s like a 90-second music video. Joseph Kosinski is directing…he did Top Gun: Maverick, which makes me optimistic about this one. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Rajesh Vora Photographs the Unique Punjabi Tradition of Adorning Homes with Sculptural Water Tanks
Visit the rural villages of Doaba, in India’s Punjab state, and you’ll likely encounter enormous sculptures of airplanes, tanks, and soccer players perched atop homes. The regional custom began in the late 1970s with Indian citizens who had immigrated to other parts of the
Appalling vs. a Whole Other Level of Appalling
Rebecca Solnit: Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race? I am not usually one to offer diagnoses of people I’ve never met, but it does seem like the pundit class of the American media is suffering from severe memory loss. Because they’re doing
There I Ruined It: Kermit the Frog sings Snoop Dogg’s Gin and...
There I Ruined It: Kermit the Frog sings Snoop Dogg’s Gin and Juice to the tune of Rainbow Connection . 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Whoever the Democratic Candidate Is, Americans Have Already Lost. “If you take...
Whoever the Democratic Candidate Is, Americans Have Already Lost. “If you take your eye off the ball of democracy for any length of time, no amount of history will save you. Americans have taken our eyes off the ball.”
Meet The Smithsonian Bird Detectives Saving Lives
"Bird residue was not always her forte."
‘I’m Good, I Promise’: The Loneliness of the Low-Ranking Tennis Player
"I was once Ireland’s No 1 player, and tried for years to climb the global ranks. But life at the bottom of the top can be brutal."
Moon drawings
Cut off from her family, Yuge carved ‘circular mantras’ into snow and sand to mark time with a personal ritual of longing - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Scientific origins of racism
A scientific theory that humans arose in multiple parts of the world is the real source of contemporary racist ideas - by Jacob Zellmer Read at Aeon
The Internet Archive Rescues MTV News’ Web Site, Making 460,000+ of Its Pages Searchable Again
Image via Internet Archive Last month, MTV News’ web site went missing. Or at least almost all of it did, including an archive of stories going back to 1997. To some of us, and especially to those of us old enough to have grown up watching MTV on actual television, that won’t
Kazoo lessons
Knowledge and technique used to be closely guarded secrets. Admission to the guild was reserved for a few, and crafts like typesetting, plumbing and medicine were off limits to most folks. One of the reasons for the explosion in productivity and innovation in the last century
“Tsundoku,” the Japanese Word for the New Books That Pile Up on Our Shelves, Should Enter the English Language
There are some words out there that are brilliantly evocative and at the same time impossible to fully translate. Yiddish has the word shlimazl, which basically means a perpetually unlucky person. German has the word Backpfeifengesicht, which roughly means a face that is badly