Opportunities in August 2026

Residencies, fellowships, grants, and open calls from the Erie Canal Museum, Jentel Artist Residency, Princeton University, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers.

Culture • 23m

Does Christopher Nolan Consider Himself a Bard for a Civilization at Dusk?

This 17-minute interview about the Odyssey with Christopher Nolan conducted by philosophy doctoral student Zhong Shu is one of the better ones I’ve seen. The first two questions are: Do you consider yourself a bard for a civilization at dusk? Have you Christianized The

Culture • 44m

Google Earth stupidly launched an AI image-gen feature...

Google Earth stupidly launched an AI image-gen feature with no guardrails then put it on pause after a huge outcry. “Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran.”

Culture • 1h

The Listening Museum : “36 mechanical keyboards...

The Listening Museum : “36 mechanical keyboards and switches, curated and sound-mapped. From IBM Model M (1985) to Topre to thocky modern customs. Click any card, type on your real keyboard, hear it as if it were on your desk.”

Culture • 2h

Days Disrupted

"Across the world, the Iran war is reshaping everyday life."

Culture • 4h

Ani Liu: eye heart womb

A scientist, artist and mother, Ani Liu contemplates how power and control shape the body in her taboo-breaking artworks - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Culture • 5h

Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Will Finally Open

The long-contested museum has an opening date. Plus, V&A Museum workers strike, a Taipei military settlement becomes an artist residency, and a documentary on protest photography.

Culture • 5h

Who Ya Gonna Call? Scam Busters!

"How a team of sleuths reportedly tracked down the Brad Pitt impersonators who cyber-scammed a middle-aged Frenchwoman out of her life’s savings."

Culture • 5h

Thucydides the perspicacious

Far from thinking that ‘might makes right’, the great historian’s analysis of war identifies a vice common to all states - by David Polansky & Daniel Schillinger Read on Aeon

Culture • 5h

Celebrity art

It doesn’t have to be well-crafted, historically important or aesthetically unique. It simply needs to be famous. Celebrity art is famous, with a story and thus emotional resonance. It’s a souvenir for our eyes, a chance to have proximity without ownership. It conflates

Culture • 6h

Watch the Evolution of Manhattan Unfold in a Timelapse Video, from 1600 to 2026

A Manhattan without skyscrapers sounds difficult, if not impossible, to imagine today. But such a place really did exist, at least up until the turn of the twentieth century. While the title of the very first skyscraper ever built may go to the Home Insurance Building in

Culture • 6h

Enchantment and the Courage of Joy: René Magritte on the Antidote to the Banality of Pessimism

"Life is wasted when we make it more terrifying, precisely because it is so easy to do so."

Culture • 22h

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