Sarah Schulman’s Four Decades of Lesbian Fiction
“Nothing stops me except the publishing industry,” quipped the novelist and AIDS historian, who cut her teeth as an East Village journalist writing for queer and feminist papers.
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Ian’s Shoelace Site Is Still The Best Site For...
Ian’s Shoelace Site Is Still The Best Site For Tying Your Shoes . However: “What is the point of adding value to the internet if it is only going to rob you? Why do research, make diagrams, and develop new knots?”
“This song has no instruments in it.” This is cool: a...
“This song has no instruments in it.” This is cool: a song made only from pink noise and an equalizer.
Art Movements: Sam Gilliam Foundation Names Its First Director
Dr. Steven Nelson to helm the nonprofit, Aperture HQ's fall opening date, and, uh, the New Museum partners with Penske Media?
Required Reading
This week: Jean Shin’s memorial to the trees of Greenwood Cemetery, the 250th anniversary nobody wants, Pride bar-hopping, and more.
This is clever & depressing: the Apocalypse Early...
This is clever & depressing: the Apocalypse Early Warning System tracks private jet activity. “In the event of an imminent nuclear apocalypse, we suspect that many people who have access to private jets will immediately take to the skies…”
Charleston’s African American Museum Furloughs All Staff
The institution cited “a shift in the political and funding environment” and said staggered furloughs would help avoid layoffs.
A Better World at the Obama Center
The new campus is an expression of the former US president's civic ideals, and a reminder of how distant they now seem.
They Want to Control Our Imagination
A professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago asked her students to imagine a way to help someone they might encounter. Leadership found that beyond the pale.
A Hand-Drawn Visual Guide to Chili Peppers
For his great visual field guide to the chili peppers of the world, Erik Gauger hand-drew 176 peppers from India, South America, Korea, Thailand, Africa, and seemingly every other place on the Earth. Capsaicin, the compound that makes chili peppers hot is an evolutionary
Painting “Intentionally” Defaced at Museum of African American Culture
The Houston institution said Clarence Heyward's self-portrait "Man in the Garden" (2025) was deliberately vandalized by visitors.
John Thomson’s photos of China (1860s-70s) ....
John Thomson’s photos of China (1860s-70s) . “Unlike many other early photographers he didn’t spend all his time photographing palaces and ruins. He also captured a lot of daily life including peasants, merchants, and criminals.”
A close-up look at some of Spain’s oldest & most...
A close-up look at some of Spain’s oldest & most compelling cave paintings . “We lost the connection they had to this world. They led the way quite nicely and successfully, and we got…distracted.”
For the first time on record, solar overtook coal in the...
For the first time on record, solar overtook coal in the US electricity mix in May 2026 . “Solar supplied a record 12.8% of US electricity, while coal fell to 12.2%, its fourth-lowest monthly share ever.”
Becoming by Max Cooper
Released a few days ago, this is the official video for Max Cooper’s Becoming , directed by Brandon Eversole . It’s mesmerizing, trippy, and a little bit glitchy. The video is also notable for being so wide that it breaks YouTube’s desktop layout — anything less than stretching
“It’s so dumb!” I quote this line from Benoit Blanc in...
“It’s so dumb!” I quote this line from Benoit Blanc in Glass Onion like 10 times a day now. Feel free to add it to your repetoire.
Billionaires’ Billions Are Increasing Faster Than Ever ....
Billionaires’ Billions Are Increasing Faster Than Ever . 15 years ago, billionaires had $4.5 trillion. “Now, their combined wealth totals $20.1 trillion — an amount that is equivalent to nearly a fifth of the entire world’s total yearly output.”
Thornton Wilder’s Last Play Vanished Into Thin Air. Or Did It?
"Decades after 'The Emporium' failed to open on Broadway in 1954, one man went on a quest to find it."
Don’t touch the art
Yoko Ono’s painting invites us to step on it, challenging both galleries and audiences. Why is touch transgressive? - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Carmen Maria Machado on Power
Plus, the largest survey of Arthur Jafa’s work is coming to New York.
‘It’s More Like a Playlist’: Lavinia Spalding on Editing the Best Women’s Travel Writing
The editor of The Best Women's Travel Writing series on curation, grief and levity, and the stories she hopes to read more of in the future.
The no-human future
Terrorists and tech bros alike view accelerationism as a revolutionary weapon. Nick Land glimpsed something much darker - by Vincent Lê Read on Aeon
Values capture
When culture pushes us to measure things that don’t matter to us, our values are captured. Once the metrics turn a profit for corporations and those in power, they are amplified, and almost overnight, begin to matter to us, even if they run contrary to what we originally set
How the Hagia Sophia Was Built, and How It’s Being Saved from Collapse
Ask around for what everyone knows about Istanbul (other than that it used to be called Constantinople), and you’ll find that the presence of Hagia Sophia there comes right to many a mind. Less likely to be mentioned is its proneness to earthquakes, though it tends to rank just
David Bowie Picks His 12 Favorite David Bowie Songs
Admit it, your list of favorite Bowie songs is full of the big hits. Hell, maybe it’s all hits; there’s no shame in that. Digging deep into the crates will yield many an overlooked surprise, many a subtle sleeper, cut-up classic, and electronic experiment. But if all you’ve got