The Trafficker Who Furnished the Museums of LA
A team of researchers excavates the story of Earl Stendahl, a mid-century gallerist who shamelessly stole ancient Mesoamerican objects and marketed them to the institutional art world.
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A Little Fantasy Goes a Long Way
In this photography exhibition, works vacillate between intimacy and unknowability, like a fractured peep show.
NYC to Provide Free Art Supplies to Grantees
Winners of the city's recently doubled grant for artists can also enjoy unlimited supplies from Materials for the Arts.
Beautiful Hand-Painted Globes
Bellerby & Co. Globemakers are one of the world’s last remaining makers of globes by hand. Their Instagram account is chock full of their handiwork. If I could afford it (£2000!), I’d get The Livingstone globe in Prussian blue . Beautiful and wonderful craftsmanship. [This
Finding Vermeer in Unexpected Places
Artists, filmmakers, poets, and the art market itself still bear traces of the Dutch painter’s influence, writes historian Ruth Bernard Yeazell in “Vermeer’s Afterlives.”
When the Accessibility Conveyor Belt Jams
A malfunction in Finnegan Shannon’s installation at Pioneer Works led to new insights.
A View From the Easel: Flor Khan
“Here, I am allowed to play, to not know the answers, to let the message evolve on its own timing.”
Prompting as Self-Portrait. “We need the blank page and...
Prompting as Self-Portrait . “We need the blank page and the silence to go deeper into our thoughts and our understanding of ourselves and of the world.”
He Went Out on an Epic Wilderness Adventure. Only His Dogs Came Back.
"He planned a multiyear trek through rivers, forests and snow in the Canadian wilderness. Only his sled dogs returned."
Nearly 4M Records of Enslaved People in 20 Former British...
Nearly 4M Records of Enslaved People in 20 Former British Colonies Now Searchable Online . “ The Former British Colonies Enslavement Registers contains about 300,000 pages recording enslaved people across former British colonial dependencies…”
Why I Did Not Leave Nazi Germany in Time. “Many of us...
Why I Did Not Leave Nazi Germany in Time . “Many of us feared the shock of being uprooted and tried to avoid it if at all possible. But to understand this reaction…I say that nobody could possibly have foreseen the ‘final solution.’”
The Worst Way To Get To Space. I’d never heard the story...
The Worst Way To Get To Space . I’d never heard the story of the manhole cover possibly propelled into orbit by a nuclear blast — it was estimated to be moving at ~42 miles/sec. “Some speculated it became the first manmade object to enter Earth’s orbit.”
All the Percents on Star Trek: TNG
I 100% love this video of every time someone says a percentage on Star Trek: The Next Generation. And the word “percent” has lost all of its meaning due to semantic satiation . (thx, caroline) Tags: language · Star Trek · TV · video
My friend Matt was recently here for a week in Tokyo and...
My friend Matt was recently here for a week in Tokyo and wrote up his experience and observations . “I don’t think humans were ever meant to experience that many eyes and faces at once, so it was a unique experience.”
Africa’s cultural landmarks: tombs of Buganda kings
Built from vegetal materials, these majestic tombs housing Buganda kings bridge the realms of living and dead in Uganda - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Raven Chacon’s Echoes on Park Avenue
The Pulitzer Prize-winning Diné artist on latest projects, art in NYC for Indigenous Peoples’ Day, and a Felix Gonzalez-Torres show misses the mark.
Is everything conscious?
If the question makes no sense to you, try spending some time with the principle of sufficient reason - by Sam Kimpton-Nye Read on Aeon
The best in the world is a local problem
On a good day, my bongo score looks like this: Compared to all the people who have played this morning, it’s right at the top. That could be great… Except I’m not being compared to every player in the world. The first graph is built to compare every player who has never
The Biggest Ship in History Was Built in China 600 Years Ago—Or Was It?
In 2002, the retired British submarine lieutenant-commander turned amateur historian Gavin Menzies created a stir with a book about Chinese seafaring in the fifteenth century. 1421: The Year China Discovered the World (tellingly titled 1421: The Year China Discovered America in
A 900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692: A Complete High-Resolution Digital Scan
There’s ahead of its time, then there’s Traité des couleurs servant à la peinture à l’eau — or, in its original Dutch title, Klaer Lightende Spiegel der Verfkonst, a 900-page book of paint colors made before any such things were common tools of the artist’s, scientist’s, and