The art of museum dioramas

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

Aeon • 3h

Martin Luther King Jr. in Art and Memory

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.

Hyperallergic • 3h

Our unfinished republics

Economic republicanism shows us how to achieve authentic freedom: citizens require economic as well as political power - by Sean Irving Read on Aeon

Aeon • 3h

On the wall

We are story-processing creatures, and the most effective stories are often embodied in people. Living examples of the lesson we’re trying to learn and the posture we hope to model. Heroes, mentors, martyrs, examples, icons, avatars, archetypes, and even villains. Sometimes

Seth's Blog • 4h

What Happens When Mortals Try to Drink Winston Churchill’s Daily Intake of Alcohol

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. — Winston Churchill Winston Churchill had a reputation as a brilliant statesman and a prodigious drinker. The former prime minister imbibed throughout the day, every day. He also burned through 10 daily cigars,

Open Culture • 5h

Elif Shafak on the Three Roots of Hate and How to Be a Star Student of Life

To have a strong feeling about anything is to discover something about the poles of your own mind, some potent charge reason can’t touch that electrifies life with an energy you don’t fully understand yet can’t and often don’t want to quell. We learn a great deal about

The Marginalian • 22h