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How Not to Waste Your Wildness
"What is wild cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or copied. It is. Unmistakable, unforgettable, unshamable, elemental as earth and ice, water, fire and air, a quintessence, pure spirit, resolving into no constituents. Don't waste your wildness: it is precious and necessary. In
15 Museum Exhibitions to See Across the US This Fall
Tony Cokes’s riffs on the video essay, a Grandma Moses retrospective, and Abbas Akhavan’s US museum debut are among the shows to look forward to this season.
Preserving Ernie Barnes’s Legacy in Paint Tubes
The late artist and athlete who rendered joyous scenes of Black life, dance, and motion is the subject of renewed institutional attention as his daughter, Erin Barnes, works to conserve his studio practice.
Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: The Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity
"The mind narrates what the nervous system knows. Story follows state."
The Artist Residency That Never Was
Abstract Mag invited dozens of artists to participate in a summer residency in Georgia. Then its social media pages went dark.
The Pine Trees That Would Not Leave Me
While visiting the Lebanese mountain town Dhour El Choueir, I couldn't shake off a painting and a poem I had translated two decades earlier.
In Queens, Immigrant Women Sew a Truer Atlas
The largely undocumented Latin American women of New York’s “costureros,” or needlework circles, are creating a countermap to archive the stories of their lives.
The reality of sunk costs
Culture is built on the stability of persistence. Pop musicians have farewell tours that last for decades. The local print shop is still there, reliably getting the job done. We want things that last. And yet… When it’s time for a company to raise another round of investment,
The planet is… up to something
An astronaut’s image of Earth from the 2026 lunar flyby reveals not our profound smallness but our growing significance - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Art Books We’re Reading This Fall
We recommend art novels, catalogs, memoirs, and more, plus an artist reflects on her portable studio.
Continental divide
A century ago, the Pan-American road promised a new era of fraternity between the two continents. Did it succeed? - by Shawn Miller Read on Aeon
Meet Lloyd Kahn, the Counterculture Publisher Who Is Skateboarding at 91
Lloyd Kahn worked as an insurance broker before quitting in 1965. Then, he took a turn into the DIY building movement that emerged with the 1960s counterculture. Soon enough, he found himself editing the influential Whole Earth Catalog and publishing Shelter in 1973, a book
Bertrand Russell Explains Why Karl Marx’s Philosophy Produced the Disaster of Communism
In 1927, Bertrand Russell delivered a lecture titled “Why I Am Not a Christian.” At the time, such a declaration was still fairly bold, as was the reasoning he provided for it. Nearly three decades thereafter, he included in his collection Portraits from Memory another, shorter
I Long to Read More in the Book of You: Moomins Creator Tove Jansson’s Tender and Passionate Letters to the Love of Her Life
"I’m so unused to being happy that I haven’t really come to terms with what it involves... I feel like a garden that’s finally been watered, so my flowers can bloom."