NYC Cultural Orgs Push for Funding as Budget Deadline Looms
Local advocates and institutions have called for an additional $53 million to raise the city’s cultural budget baseline.
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The Estuary Smothered by a Thousand Logs
"For decades, scientists have known that allowing the timber industry to store logs in estuaries kills marine life. So why does British Columbia still permit it?"
I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again. “…spending half...
I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again . “…spending half of the planet’s engineering efforts to add chatbot support to every application under the sun when half of the industry hasn’t worked out how to test database backups regularly.” 💬 Join the discussion on
Required Reading
This week: curation and BDSM, America’s first lesbian magazine, myths about the human brain, and is smutty literature hurting our romantic relationships?
Carrie Yamaoka Thrives Between the Cracks
“For years I was an emerging artist and then it seemed like I couldn’t be called emerging anymore. Let’s hope we are all emerging, always,” the artist said.
“I Shrink 10x Every 21s Until I’m an Atom”
In this video, Epic Spaceman takes us on a journey to the micro universe, shrinking himself by 10 times every 20 seconds or so until he’s the size of an atom, a journey that only took 10 steps. At each stage, he compares his size with a familiar object — quarter, blood cell,
Trans Actress Candy Darling Gets the Biography She Deserves
Half a century after the Warhol film star’s death, writer and critic Cynthia Carr brings Darling’s life to light in an empathetic, well-researched new book.
A Rewritten History of the Taiwanese-Japanese Sugar Trade
There Is Another Capital Beneath the Waves ruminates on commerce, colonization, and conflict between manipulative forces that fuel the engine of history.
A View From the Easel
“I learned my studio has been occupied by 50 other artists from 25 countries, which fascinates me greatly.”
Kehinde Wiley’s Accusers Respond to Concerns Over Canceled Museum Shows
“Artistic merit, while significant, should not take precedence over issues of moral injury and human dignity,” reads a response to issues raised by the National Coalition Against Censorship.
Paramount has taken offline the entire MTV News archive as well as...
Paramount has taken offline the entire MTV News archive as well as Comedy Central, CMT, and TV Land websites, including 20 years of material from The Daily Show, Colbert Report, and South Park. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
The Biden administration’s successes (clean energy, infrastructure investment, workers’ rights, making gov’t...
The Biden administration’s successes (clean energy, infrastructure investment, workers’ rights, making gov’t work better) amount to a Quiet New Deal . And that quietness is helping conservatives. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
The 2024 Drone Photo Awards Capture a Striking Overview of Global Struggle
From magnificent natural wonders to human destruction on multiple fronts, the nominees of the 2024 Drone Photo Awards offer a sweeping overview of the state of the world. The annual contest by Siena Awards asks photographers to zoom out and provide new perspectives on global
San Francisco Art Book Fair Is Back in July With Its Seventh Edition
Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation, SFABF boasts 145 exhibitors from around the world, more in-depth programming, and an expanded footprint.
Diary Comics, January 2024
Hi, it’s Edith again! It turns out I can’t quite keep up with the blogging schedule here the way I thought I could (as well as keep up with home stuff and work on a project for my own newsletter), but I’m hopefully going to continue sharing comics until Jason gets sick of me
Asking AI to generate a video of the Tour de France. 1....
Asking AI to generate a video of the Tour de France . 1. This is hilarious (the explosion!) 2. This illustrates how/where LLM image generators fail. Like, this has the vibe of biking but the details & physics are totally wrong. An uncanny Grand Canyon. 💬 Join the discussion on
15 Years of Plant Time Lapse Videos
This is a compilation of dozens of time lapses of plant growth, from seed to fruit in many cases. The plants featured include strawberry, avocado, tobacco, ginger, oak tree, cauliflower, potato, kiwi, and several types of mushroom (not a plant). The climbers (kiwi, peas) are so
One Million Checkboxes. I love these sorts of minimal collaborative thingies. (Are...
One Million Checkboxes . I love these sorts of minimal collaborative thingies. (Are there bots on here now though? Every time I uncheck a bunch of boxes, they are checked pretty quickly after that again…) 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Calm Down — Your Phone Isn’t Listening to Your Conversations. It’s Just...
Calm Down — Your Phone Isn’t Listening to Your Conversations. It’s Just Tracking Everything You Type, Every App You Use, Every Website You Visit, and Everywhere You Go in the Physical World. “So don’t even worry about it.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Andréa Keys Connell Searches for Moments of Beauty in Her Tender Clay Sculptures
Andréa Keys Connell has an immeasurably tender outlook on craft. Viewing object-making as a way to better understand how art adds to the human experience, the North Carolina-based artist feels tremendous joy in sculpting clay. Coated with expressive brushstrokes in exuberant
There Was a Shadow: A Lyrical Illustrated Celebration of the Changing Light, in the World and in the Inner World
“Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty,” Junichiro Tanizaki wrote in the 1933 Japanese classic In Praise of Shadows. As a physical phenomenon, shadows are one of the most beguiling phenomena of nature, emissaries of the entwined history of light and consciousness;
Glimpse the Studios of Art Historical Greats in Vibrant Paintings by Damian Elwes
From the cubist compositions of Pablo Picasso to “The Two Fridas,” the 1939 iconic double self-portrait by Frida Kahlo , vibrant views of seminal artworks and acclaimed artists’ studios emerge in the imaginative acrylic paintings of Damian Elwes . Elwes began experimenting with
The Crazy Coffins of Ghana
We interviewed controversial casket-master Eric Adjenty Anang, who wants to send you to the afterlife in style.
Corals: on the brink
Can we save coral reefs from the ravages of climate change? Why engineering heat-tolerant species is our moral imperative - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Untold Fortunes: A Reading List on the Creative Uses of the Tarot
Five stories that explore cultural and literary references to the tarot.
The route to progress
Anticolonial modernity was founded upon the fight for liberation from communists, capitalists and imperialists alike - by Frank Gerits Read at Aeon
Thousands of Pablo Picasso’s Works Now Available in a New Digital Archive
If you want to immerse yourself in the world of Pablo Picasso, you might start at the Museo Picasso Málaga, located in the artist’s Spanish birthplace. But to understand how his work developed throughout his life, you’ll have to get out of Spain — which is just what Picasso did
The Pinocchio protocol
He had a hard time lying because his nose got longer every time he did. Gas-powered leaf blowers would disappear if the smoke they belched out was black instead of invisible. And few people would start smoking if the deposits on their lungs ended up on their face instead. We’re
How Digital Artist Serwah Attafuah Ended Up Working With Paris Hilton
Meet one of Australia's most talented young artists.
See Albert Camus’ Historic Lecture, “The Human Crisis,” Performed by Actor Viggo Mortensen
Back in 2016, New York City staged a month-long festival celebrating Albert Camus’ historic visit to NYC in 1946. One event in the festival featured actor Viggo Mortensen giving a reading of Camus’ lecture,“La Crise de l’homme” (“The Human Crisis”) at Columbia University–the