Though it’s easily forgotten in our age of air travel and instantaneous global communication, many a great city is located where it is because of a river. That holds true everywhere from London to Buenos Aires to Tokyo to New York — and even to Los Angeles, despite its own
It’s difficult to write directions. A user interface, a map or a recipe all require empathy. That’s because the person writing it knows something the reader doesn’t. In fact, that’s the only reason to do it. But because instructions exist to bridge this gap, we benefit by
The story, the many stories, of Miles Davis as an opening act for several rock bands in the 1970s makes for fascinating reading. Before he blew the Grateful Dead’s minds as their opening act at the Fillmore West in April 1970 (hear both bands’ sets here), Davis and his all-star
This is a wild Bluesky thread (and bus ride). “they switched drivers at a rest stop and the new driver is telling everyone that they’re the ones on the wrong bus??” (Gotta be logged in to Bluesky to read, sorry.)
President Trump's plans to sell a federal building housing works of art about Social Security is an attempt to erase the country’s history, a new petition argues.
The benign narrative of the beloved artist must be deconstructed, as she also embodies the US’s detrimental values.
"I quite like the brass band version of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, but I’m not sure it’s what Freddie Mercury had in mind."
The artist paints the distance between the homeland you lose and the one you try to dream back into existence.
I sat down with curator eunice bélidor and arts administrator Dejha Carrington to discuss what have become reductive ideas about the role of art museums, my own included.
The Chilean artist knew that survival under authoritarianism requires both sustenance and nerve — something to live on and something to stand for.
"A retired widower married Sara Jane Moore, who shot at President Ford in 1975. It tore his family apart."
From fluffing feathers to washing skins, a museum taxidermist shows the hidden art behind creating an ‘illusion of life’ - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Revisiting a 40-year-old mural of the civil rights leader, John Yau on the paintings of John Wilson, and a perspective from a former educator at the California College of the Arts.
Economic republicanism shows us how to achieve authentic freedom: citizens require economic as well as political power - by Sean Irving Read on Aeon