A bunch of items from Stanley Kubrick’s personal archive will be auctioned off early next year , including Jack Torrance’s axe & the sister’s blue dresses from The Shining, Kubrick’s director’s chair, and a chess set owned by the director.
The Moving Image Archive is a collection of over 120,000 clips from almost 2300 archival films drawn from public domain collections. The internet is full of forgotten films, and this archive is a growing library of that collection. When synthetic footage can now fabricate the
It’s Hard To Be A Rich Radical . “It was disappointing how easily money turned a lot of them into sudden conservatives, full of right-wing doctrine about bootstraps and the fantasy of a black capitalist utopia…”
Scientists are studying whether “many chronic diseases we treat as separate failures of separate organs may share one deeper problem: cells struggling to extract and use energy from food ” (diabetes, Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, etc.)
Institutions must reckon with the possibility that their prestige can be used to legitimize people whose conduct warrants serious investigations.
Her flickering, hollow, and bandaged forms trace histories embodied across generations.
Amid a cost-of-living crisis and the closure of local arts organizations, some are turning to different models to foster community, from nonprofit status to retail businesses.
Her environmental paintings ask: What can we do to change our destiny? What effect can we have on the place we inhabit?
Instead of the slick stream of internet and AI imagery, the moving pictures projected onto a 31-foot-tall column are insistently material.
The proposed ballot measure would ensure that the office is immune from administrative overhauls.
See 300+ unique works by Marcel Duchamp, including the permanently installed masterpiece “Étant donnés”, exclusively at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
I’ve been vaguely aware for awhile that researchers had traced the origins of HIV/AIDS back to Sub-Saharan Africa. But I didn’t know the whole story, which turns out to be really fascinating . For decades, one man was blamed for bringing AIDS to America. But the “Patient Zero”
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Filmmaker Sandro Bocci brings us up close with coral reefs and their striking array of color, texture, and pattern. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article
They Stopped 57 Shootings. Everyone Was Just Fired. “A program called Peace Orlando hired neighborhood residents closest to the violence…who could see a shooting coming and talk people down.” It worked…and then the program was shut down.
Sprout is planning to sell replacement motherboards for certain iPods . “Sprout only replaces the motherboard and uses your iPod’s original parts. No soldering required, and fully reversible.” Bluetooth, WiFi, 500K songs, USB-C, even streaming.
"More Americans are rejecting everything they’ve been taught about food."
Researchers study paintings and literature to uncover untold history of the works, sometimes finding themselves trying to discern celestial bodies from dust
Petty disputes, pleas for help and requests for gold – explore letters sent to Egyptian pharaohs more than 3,000 years ago - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
The monumental sculptor dies at 84; plus, how an artist snuck his own work into The Met, and a dispute over watercolors of Roma victims of the Holocaust.
At a recent Q&A, a small businessperson asked how to get clients to be more alike, willing to engage in systemic work that would be easier to deliver and offer a simpler path to getting the job done. Of course, once there’s a manual, anyone can do the work, and anyone will. It
To get a sense of Sagrada Família’s popularity with YouTubers, you have only to take a look at the related Open Culture posts linked below. As will hardly escape your attention, most subjects that consistently draw the attention of the GoPro class are not nineteenth-century
Maybe it’s the cloistered headiness of Rene Descartes, or the rigorous austerity of Isaac Newton; maybe it’s all the leathern breeches, gray waistcoats, sallow faces, and powdered wigs… but we tend not to associate Enlightenment Europe with an explosion of color theory. Yet
We spend our lives trying to find our power and our freedom. It is not easy: We live in a culture that has distorted the meaning and measure of power, confusing visibility with value, status with substance, attention with love; we live in a universe where free will may be an
From 713 Magazine on Instagram : In a world where cultural knowledge has become its own form of social currency, knowing the right designers, listening to the right music, and recognizing the right references can make someone appear just as creative as the people actually
Hyperallergic’s spirited soirée, a bone to pick with “Costume Art” at The Met, and what’s a woman artist’s “prime” in the art world?
Yuntao Xu’s art show in a gas station, LA’s first gallery run for and by Black artists, iris yirei hu’s reliquaries for a dream, and April Bey’s alien tapestries of human life.
David Mitlaski says his oil pastel painting of the Met Gala captures “A-list celebrities prancing, while the world outside the museum gates is collapsing.”
"The mountaineer and his partner, Hilaree Nelson, planned a first-ever descent. After her death, he pushed on."
“ Local Wikipedia is Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you.” There is also Walkipedia .
A show at the Getty demonstrates the way modernist approaches to photography shifted the visual culture of Mexico in the 20th century.
John Oliver on the Republican Party and the Far Right (redundant).
As the legal dispute over the paintings’ ownership continues, no one seems to be asking: What were their names? Who may still be grieving their deaths? What decision would best honor them?
