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The ceremony was organized by members of the university faculty in a repudiation of leadership’s decision to send police to arrest pro-Palestine demonstrators.
A dozen students are staging an alternative BFA show in Brooklyn amid Students for Justice in Palestine’s ongoing strike against the New School.
At an exhibition opening in the school’s Flatiron gallery, students read the names of young Palestinians killed by Israeli attacks.
Private chats obtained by the Washington Post show how art-world stakeholders sought to influence Mayor Eric Adams and Columbia leadership.
The School of Visual Arts Continuing Education in NYC offers a diverse range of more than 200 online and on-campus courses and over 10 artist residency programs.
I know a lot of you probably aren’t going to take me up on this, but I recommend watching Summoning Salt’s feature-length documentary on the history of Tetris world records. I started watching in the other night and once I got going, I couldn’t stop. Some of plot points were
“A [2022] report adds to a growing line of research showing that police departments don’t solve serious or violent crimes with any regularity , and in fact, spend very little time on crime control.” Instead: “conducting racially biased stops”. 💬 Join the discussion on
"Not being able to give up is not to be able to allow for loss, for vulnerability; not to be able to allow for the passing of time, and the revisions it brings."
Textile design and the visual language of quilting shine through in Sarah Helen More ’s paintings. Her kaleidoscopic works pair various geometric and botanical motifs in patchworks of flat graphic color. Emitting a joyful, meditative energy, the vivid compositions directly tie
Here’s something that I believe without any evidence to back it up: chocolate cookies taste better without chocolate chips in them . (I do prefer CCCs with sparse chips though.) 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
“My daughter’s death was entirely preventable.”
Whoa, classic console emulators work on Apple TV now ? (In other words, you can play old school NES/SNES/N64 games on your Apple TV.) You can even connect a controller. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
"The city has violated a court order and its own policies by discarding the personal property of thousands of homeless people, who have lost medications, birth certificates, IDs, treasured family photos and the ashes of loved ones."
Danny MacAskill is known ‘round these parts for his jaw-dropping trials riding (I first posted about him 15 years ago ) but this ride is a little bit different. MacAskill and four friends take to the local mountain bike trails around Inverness, Scotland on ebikes and have a
The Taipei City-based studio Pan Pan Hua is preserving local heritage by recreating the historic details unique to the region’s built environment. “Through years of research, we have found that the mosaic tile, once thriving in Taiwan, ceased production nearly half a century
This week in crossword history (1924): Cross-Word Puzzlers to Hold [10-Letter Word Meaning Meet] . “Enthusiastic followers of tiddley-winks, jackstraws, parchesi […] have not yet announced the dates of their respective conventions.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
"One of the greatest rappers of our time in conversation with one of the most lauded culture writers alive on freedom, fame, flutes, and the burning question: ‘You gonna put some beats on that shit?’"
Recommending noteworthy reads from Tim Prudente and Stokely Baksh, Rachel Aviv, Abby Tickell, Nick Zarzycki, and Andrea Sachs.
What might a people, subjected to unspeakable historical suffering, think about the ethics of vengeance once in power? - by Shachar Pinsker Read at Aeon
This heady, exquisitely delightful new book reveals the power behind the sequins