Steve DiBenedetto’s Cosmic Sense of the Absurd
He conceives of a painting as a search for a functional structure, a talisman that can aid viewers amid our collective sense of traumatic crisis.
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Great new Patrick Radden Keefe piece on a New Orleans...
Great new Patrick Radden Keefe piece on a New Orleans insurance fraud scheme involving big rig s. “After all, who would agree to be cut open on an operating table if it weren’t necessary? Quite a lot of people, it turns out.”
Jeremy Frey: The Generational Impact of a New Artistic Path
Join us on April 29 for a conversation with artist and recent MacArthur Fellowship winner Jeremy Frey and Hyperallergic Editor-at-Large Hrag Vartanian.
Fred Again’s Tiny Desk Concert
Almost three years ago exactly, Fred Again rolled into the NPR studios and did a Tiny Desk Concert . When Fred again.. first proposed a Tiny Desk concert, it wasn’t immediately clear how he was going to make it work — not because he lacked creativity, but because translating
Why Japan Has Such Good Railways . “Their system...
Why Japan Has Such Good Railways . “Their system excels because of good public policy: business structure, land use rules, driving rules, superior models for privatization, and sound regulation.” Other countries can follow their lead.
Ai Weiwei and the Art of Keeping Your Mouth Shut
“On Censorship” offers timely reflections from the dissident artist, whose entire life and career have been marked by state persecution.
Rebecca Solnit: “ The United States is being...
Rebecca Solnit: “ The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job . Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled.”
Hungarian Opposition Ousts Viktor Orbán After 16 Years...
Hungarian Opposition Ousts Viktor Orbán After 16 Years in Power . “Magyar…pledged to repair Hungary’s strained relationship with the EU, crack down on corruption and funnel funds towards long-neglected public services.”
Interviews with five novelists (Jesmyn Ward, Joyce Carol...
Interviews with five novelists (Jesmyn Ward, Joyce Carol Oates, Jhumpa Lahiri, Ottessa Moshfegh, Margaret Atwood) on writing something true with fiction . Oates: “If you could read Toni Morrison, why would you read AI?”
What Is a "Post-Duchamp" Art World?
Art fair dispatches from Chicago to São Paulo, Thierry de Duve on Duchamp at MoMA, and Ela Troyano remembers Agosto Machado.
The sterilisation-seekers
In the story of eugenics, disabled people are often depicted as passive victims. But for some it seemed an opportunity - by Coreen McGuire & Alex Aylward Read on Aeon
Isaac Asimov Reviews George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Calls It “Not Science Fiction, But a Distorted Nostalgia for a Past that Never Was”
Here in the twenty-twenties, a young reader first hearing of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four would hardly imagine it to be a work of science fiction. That wouldn’t have been the case in 1949, when the novel was first published, and when the eponymous year would have
Avoiding the purity loop
Some vegans don’t eat avocados. They’re concerned that the bees that are trucked in to pollinate the trees are mistreated, and so they choose to not support this practice. But we live in community, and someone running a vegan restaurant or serving a meal to vegan friends,
Sci-Fi Writer Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Future in 1964: Artificial Intelligence, Instantaneous Global Communication, Remote Work, Singularity & More
Are you feeling confident about the future? No? We understand. Would you like to know what it was like to feel a deep certainty that the decades to come were going to be filled with wonder and the fantastic? Well then, gaze upon this clip from the BBC Archive YouTube channel of
How to See More Clearly and Love More Purely: Iris Murdoch on the Angst of Not Knowing Ourselves and Each Other
One of the hardest things to learn in life is that the heart is a clock too fast not to break. We lurch into loving, only to discover again and again that it takes a long time to know people, to understand people — and “understanding is love’s other name.” Even without
The Importance of Being Scared: Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Fairy Tales and the Necessity of Fear
"Andersen had the courage to write stories with unhappy endings. He didn’t believe that you should try to be good because it pays ... but because evil stems from intellectual and emotional stuntedness and is the one form of poverty that should be shunned."
Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance
One of the commonest and most corrosive human reflexes is to react to helplessness with anger. We do it in our personal lives and we do it in our political lives. We are living through a time of uncommon helplessness and uncertainty, touching every aspect of our lives, and in