Standouts From the 2024 Venice Biennale’s Foreigners Everywhere
Let’s investigate some of the hundreds of artworks on display as part of the central exhibition at this year’s Biennale.
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“Long before people develop dementia, they often begin falling behind on mortgage...
“Long before people develop dementia, they often begin falling behind on mortgage payments, credit card bills and other financial obligations , new research shows.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: The Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity
"The mind narrates what the nervous system knows. Story follows state."
Miguel Atwood-Ferguson’s Les Jardins Mystiques
“Each of the tracks is supposed to be a different mystical garden.” I almost didn’t read this Q&A with jazz musician Miguel Atwood-Ferguson in the latest issue of Tricycle Magazine, but I’m glad I did. His debut album, Les Jardins Mystiques , came out last year — after 14
Trump Is Guilty and the Memes Are Plenty
Where there is a glimmer of justice, there is hope.
The Canine Rainbow and How Dogs See the World
How do we know how dogs see? Are they colorblind? Nearsighted? How do they perceive movement? Does their excellent sense of smell help dogs see? The first episode of Howtown from Adam Cole & Joss Fong is all about dog vision and is predictably fascinating. Tags: dogs ·
Black Mountain College Prize Awarded to Alison Croney Moses
Each year, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center awards a $20,000 grant to an artist based anywhere in the world working in the spirit of BMC.
In ‘The Repatriation of King Skellig Mör,’ Duke Riley Explores the Bizarre Relationship Between Nature and Institutional Power
The most famous goat in the history of Boston was named Skellig Mör. During the early 1900s, Skellig Mör’s name plastered headlines as an arduous legal battle for his custody ensued. The famed goat was born in Killorglin, a town in County Kerry, Ireland. Prior to being bought
Diary Comics, Dec. 30 & 31
A mini Friday Afternoon With Edith, this time! Also, sorry the color is disappearing from these, the additional child kind of brought it back to black and white. ( Previously .) Tags: diary comics 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
The trailer for Butterfly in the Sky, a documentary film about Reading...
The trailer for Butterfly in the Sky , a documentary film about Reading Rainbow and its host, LeVar Burton. “Reading Rainbow was not about learning to read, it was about loving to read.” Now streaming on Netflix . 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Arisa Trew Nails a 900
14-year-old Arisa Trew just became the first female skater to land a 900. She calls it “a dream come true” on Instagram . Tags: Arisa Trew · skateboarding · video 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Fabric & Letterforms
I loved looking at some of the items from the Letterform Archive related to the representation of letters with fabric (knitting, cross-stitch, weaving, etc.) Also, I did not know this re: the word “text”: The word “text” originated from the Latin word “textus,” which means “a
JR’s ‘TEHACHAPI’ Goes Behind-the-Scenes of His Monumental Collective Portrait of Incarcerated Men in California
“Can art change the world?” is the fundamental question at the core of French photographer and street artist JR ’s global practice. From a participatory public artwork in protest of Iran’s restrictions on women to a giant collective portrait of more than 1,000 New Yorkers , his
The JWST has imaged the most distant known galaxy, seeing it as...
The JWST has imaged the most distant known galaxy , seeing it as it was 290m years after the Big Bang. “An emerging theme is that galaxies and black holes appear to have grown much more rapidly than was expected.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week we are featuring stories from Mark Follman, Scott Stossel, Wei Tchou, Sara Franklin, and Alexander Sammon.
Peregrinations of grief
A friend and a falcon went missing. In pain, I turned to ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ – and found a new vision of sorrow and time - by Emily Polk Read at Aeon
Ray Bradbury Wrote the First Draft of Fahrenheit 451 on Coin-Operated Typewriters, for a Total of $9.80
Image by Alan Light, via Wikimedia Commons It sounds like a third grade math problem: “If Ray Bradbury wrote the first draft of Fahrenheit 451 (1953) on a coin-operated typewriter that charged 10 cents for every 30 minutes, and he spent a total of $9.80, how many hours did it
The third impossibility
The first was radio and television. Humans around the world spending a significant portion of their waking hours consuming audio and video recordings of other people. The second was the internet. Five to ten hours a day interacting, in real time, with other people, many of them