David Byrne will always be most widely known as the co-founder and frontman of Talking Heads. That may count among the greatest possible achievements for any artist — to the minds of many an Open Culture reader, at least — but it must occasionally frustrate the man himself.
In 1996, the Blondin family drove all around the US, blogging about it all before “blog” was even a word . “We were doing something that had no name and no manual, and we were doing it over a dial-up modem while living in a motorhome.”
Agustín Ferrando Trenchi became a little obsessed with the moon as a kid. As an adult, he’s taken tons of photos and hundreds of hours of footage of the moon. After seeing an airplane fly close to the moon while he filmed, Trenchi began a quest to capture a plane flying across
Plus, the Boston Public Art Triennial’s curatorial team, Kinosaito fall artist residents, and Mariah Carey’s “Last Supper” selfie in this week's Art Movements.
Painted signs and trash bins have become a visual lexicon of resistance as protesters call for educational reform and an immediate end to police violence.
Abolish Frat Culture . “This is going to be uncomfortable for anyone with a kid in a fraternity to hear: If your son finds himself in a group that would send a ‘free pussy’ text, it’s too late. The group is the disease, the text is the symptom.”
Reigning diva Amygdala brings Brooklyn drag to Manhattan in “Pleasure Dome: Continuum,” a fête of therapeutic sound, vaudeville tributes, and queer politics.
Greece’s National Museum of Contemporary Art edged out institutions such as the Rijksmuseum and FENIX Museum of Migration in the Netherlands.
Democrat Jamie Raskin’s proposed bill asks the institution to preserve items related to Trump’s “propagandistic assault on American history.”
Any Human Ever randomly picks an average person from some point in human history and tells you about what their life was like. Mine was a woman born in 1547: “Of all the sounds of her life, the loudest were thunder and the church bells.”
Stumbling upon a battered end table or lost mitten is an opportunity for magic in Woo Jin Joo’s mind. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Woo Jin Joo
Mamdani’s “Richard Scarry Socialism” Can Make City Life Simple Again . “It is an astonishing indictment of our times that the cities of our picture books can seem like a radical utopia.”
Elegiac, urgent, and infinitesimal, the videos and Polaroids in "Spectra Obscura" express distinct sorts of disappearance, decay, and fleeting natural phenomena.
The concurrent emergence of cinema and X-ray technology radically transformed how we see and understand the human body.
It might have made a more fascinating exhibition to explore her balancing act as a gallerist, but this show focuses on her less interesting art.
"A months-old subreddit called r/BoyDinnerDiares has drawn over 4 million users and become a place for men to spill their guts. Why there and why now?"
Silveira juxtaposes objects and organisms in unlikely scenarios to challenge how we perceive the world around us. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article
Late in his life, the prominent English mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell was subject to an attempt in the early 1960s by Oswald Mosley to provoke him into a debate about the merits of fascism. Before WWII, Mosley had founded the British Union of Fascists. BUF had
The Global Rise of Electoral Dictatorships. Is the U.S. Next? “Electoral dictators — who identify as presidents and prime ministers — hold uncompetitive and unfair elections after aggressively suppressing political opponents.”
"Mr. Wonderful wanted to build the world’s largest data center. The neighbors had other ideas."
A short (too short?) video from Little White Lies on designer Saul Bass and his influence on the art of movie title design. They also did videos on Pablo Ferro and Kyle Cooper .
"The horrific story of Jane Doe and the Cornell Seven has spurred nationwide outrage and revived contentious debates around prevention and education. But one question is still going unasked: Who really pays after a sexual assault?"
From Lenape land to sprawling metropolis, this detailed timelapse animation captures the making of Manhattan - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
It’s the collaboration the art world deserves. Plus, we’re throwing a Halloween party!
Sixteenth-century Venice wanted to expel its Jews but couldn’t do without them. Its compromise was the world’s first ghetto - by Alexander Lee Read on Aeon
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