They’re often related. It’s not unusual for someone to have more experience or knowledge than we do. If they use that knowledge to their benefit, not ours, they might be manipulating us. If we knew what they knew, we wouldn’t have gone along. This is the difference between a
Multicolored tents, protest art, and an enormous display of hand-painted canvas banners express CUNY student and faculty support for Palestine.
Even the world's most proliferated images appear novel when they're blown up on glossy paper at the Photography Show presented by AIPAD.
This year’s show is an imaginative and openly political space that flies in the face of the commercial book sphere.
This is a nice thing to end the week on: Yo-Yo Ma playing “Bach’s Prélude from Suite No. 2, amidst the melting permafrost on Lower Tanana Dene lands in Fairbanks, Alaska.” He was brought to this birch forest by Princess Daazhraii Johnson , a member of the Neets’aii Gwich’in
Art Happens Here With John Lithgow , a one-hour PBS special premiering tonight, follows the thespian as he explores various creative forms at four LA art centers.
Yesss, Run Lola Run is returning to theaters for its 25th anniversary . A 4K digital restoration will start showing on June 7. I loved this movie — saw it in the theater when it came out but haven’t seen it in many years. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
The first episode of the podcast featuring astrophysicist Katie Mack explaining the universe to John Green is up! It’s about the first two minutes of the universe. “We are not just made of stardust; we are also made of Big Bang stuff.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Adam Roberts and his partner dined at Noma (aka “The Best Restaurant in the World”) and he was thwarted by some pre-meal queasiness & the challenging cuisine . “You don’t seem like yourself. You look haunted.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
The Man Who Killed Google Search , i.e. how “growth-hungry managerial types” from Google’s ad business chased out the old search team “to make Google worse to make the company more money”. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
"Each world bears all the worlds we might find within it. If you understand one outcropping of stone, or one wildflower, or one hummingbird — if we see our way along the tracery of cause and effect, the mystery of change and recreation — then we are led to everything we see,
First published in 1997, Phaidon’s The Art Book has long been a go-to source for introductions to some of the most influential artists. Spanning medieval to modern times, the volume contains more than 600 works and is available in 20 languages. About two decades ago, the iconic
This is great: a 25-minute interview with legendary animator Chuck Jones as he sits and draws some of his iconic characters (Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck). He told this anecdote about how Steven Spielberg and George Lucas were both influenced by a particular space-themed
Christopher Slayton built a bunch of iconic cosmic structures in Minecraft , including the Sun, the Pillars of Creation, galaxies, a supermassive black hole, and galaxies. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Reaching toward universal experiences unclouded by specific identities, Jason Limon strips his recurring characters to the bare bones. The San Antonio-based artist ( previously ) continues his uncanny paintings of skeletons, who find themselves in precarious, startling, and
An experimental data sonification of what a “decentralized, digitized, decarbonized electricity grid” would sound like . “Should we be dramatic, Hans-Zimmer-style ‘bahhhhhhhhnnnnn’ sounds? Or more ambient?” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Sounds like The Onion has been rescued from an agonizing death by private equity by an acquisition by people who actually care about it . “The Onion is just an institution. It should be preserved and it should be great.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Paris-based artist Stéphane Thidet invites viewers into wondrous worlds that skew perceptions and distort the laws of physics: a small wooden boat appears to arise from hard planks, flat stones nest inside a bookcase where paper tomes once stood, and water cascades from a