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12 Must-Read Books on Textiles and Fiber Art
Titles on contemporary Diné weavers, Black American quilting in California, the Bayeux Tapestry, artists including Cecilia Vicuña and Olga de Amaral, and more.
Beautiful Seamless Ride
A lovely little mountain biking video with some incredible locations and cinematography. The drone piloting is A+. Also available on Vimeo . (via alastair humphreys ) Tags: cycling · video
WPA Murals at Harlem Hospital Restored to Their Original Glory
A New Deal-era sculpture by John Rhoden was also included in the city's restoration project.
The 98-Year-Old Pop Art Queen Behind an Iconic Lichtenstein Billboard
Ahead of her memoir's release, we talk to Joan Kron about Andy Warhol, beating Sidney Janis to the punch, and why she calls herself a “renegade housewife” of Pop Art.
Is the camera shutter noise the last skeuomorphic element...
Is the camera shutter noise the last skeuomorphic element left in iOS ?
Ah, the Many Smells of Frieze London
Among them champagne, new money, and an artist’s custom-scented bathroom installations.
Valerio Adami’s Hot and Cold Art
His syncretic style melds Pop Art’s cool, outlined forms with expressionism’s figural distortions, resulting in a perturbing ambiguity.
Rembrandt’s Ancient Obsessions Are Made Anew in Upcoming Met Exhibition
Co-organized with the Louvre, "Rembrandt and the Ancients" opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in November 2027 and will travel to Paris in 2028.
Fishdraw is a single JavaScript file that generates...
Fishdraw is a single JavaScript file that generates drawings of fish. There’s an option to slow the animation down so you can watch it draw the fish line-by-line.
How Hunting Owls Use Sound to “See” Under the Snow
The great grey owl basically has a sound cone for a face, which helps it hunt down voles burrowing through snow in the winter. The owl’s large facial ruff, formed of dense feathers, helps amplify sound and funnel it towards his ears. Through half a meter of snow, the sound of
How many shots are in the average movie? How does it...
How many shots are in the average movie? How does it compare to the past? “You might expect the editor to be the most important factor in the number of shots, but in fact, knowing who directed a film accounts for 70% of the variation in its cutting pace.”
Big Math: The Hidden Codes That Run Our World. “The epic...
Big Math: The Hidden Codes That Run Our World . “The epic story of how a handful of surprisingly simple mathematical ideas have sparked today’s technological breakthroughs — from Netflix’s recommendation algorithm to medical imaging to AI…” Interesting!
Jazmine Hayes Charts Community Displacement, Resilience in Brownsville Art Commission
“I genuinely want any child that walks through this door to be and feel protected,” the East New York-raised artist told Hyperallergic.
Purple Space problem solving
On the 19th of October, I’m doing an open Zoom call for members of purple.space and those that might be curious about how cohorts and mutual support open the door to possibility. You can reserve a spot here. It’s free, but there are limited spots.
What Happens When Your Abuser Kills Himself?
"These women's abusive partners died by suicide. They felt both relief and grief. The NHS didn't know what to do with them."
Where You Should Live: Five Factors to Keep in Mind
I ran across this post on Instagram by Bobby in Space (who posts about design and the psychology of place) and wanted to pull it onto the actual internet. Here are some snippets of his “5 hills I will die on as someone who studies the psychology of place”. I don’t think these
Asia NOW 2026 Brings Contemporary Asian Art to Paris
Celebrating the artistic voices of Asia and its diaspora, the fair brings new and returning international galleries together in Paris this October.
UCLA’s MFA in Media Arts Now Accepting Applications
A three-year program for artists critically and experimentally engaging with media, technology, and contemporary culture.
Teaser trailer for season three of The Lord of The Rings:...
Teaser trailer for season three of The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power . Maybe this isn’t the best show in the world, but I have been enjoying it. I thought s02 was better than s01 so at least the trajectory is promising.
Deskilling the Body
"We are, moment by moment, doing less sensing, navigating, remembering, walking, choosing, and attending."
Tiny Little Office is “an office suite with no accounts...
Tiny Little Office is “an office suite with no accounts and no server that holds your work. Every document lives in the address of its page… Copy the link and you have copied the document.” Includes a word processor, spreadsheet, calculator, etc.
How Tree Rings Challenged the Myth of American Wilderness
"By studying fire scars in ancient wood, many scientists have become convinced that Indigenous people transformed North America long before Christopher Columbus arrived."
The secrets of Hohle Fels cave
Why aren’t we all Neanderthals? These ancient bird figurines suggest that art was essential to our evolutionary success - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
The ladder of knowledge
What we claim as ‘true’ is not a ceiling we are forever failing to reach but something that changes as we climb toward it - by Alexander V Gheorghiu Read on Aeon
Seeing Like John Berger
Megan O’Grady reviews a new Berger biography, Deana Lawson appropriates surveillance photographs, and Paddy Johnson answers the question: Do I need an agent?
Beyond the Glass
Among a collection’s many skulls, a grieving son learns how to live in a world that keeps going.
Addressing fear
Don’t bring a spreadsheet to a fear fight. Change causes fear. And change is all around us. The fear of the unknown. The fear of failure. The fear of uncertainty. Mostly, we’d like safety. And when the world changes, safety feels like it’s in short supply. One reason we have
The Megaprojects That Even the Ancient Romans Couldn’t Pull Off: Rerouting the Tiber, Digging a Canal, and More
Some would call the United States of America the mightiest empire the world has ever known. Yet over the past half-century or so, it has shown a strange inability to build domestic infrastructure, at least at the efficiency or on the scale seen elsewhere in the world. (This
Watch “The Midnight Parasites,” a Surreal Japanese Animation Set in the World of Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights (1972)
Hieronymus Bosch’s bizarre paintings might have looked perfectly ordinary to his contemporaries, argues Stanley Meisler in “The World of Bosch.” Modern viewers may find this very hard to believe. We approach Bosch through layers of Freudian interpretation and Surrealist
How Not to Waste Your Life
“Let me not seem to have lived in vain,” the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe whispered on his deathbed, not realizing that the astronomical tables he was leaving behind would become the portal through which Kepler arrives at the laws of planetary motion; not realizing that the