Thirteen bronze women in wide pannier skirts stand single file in St. Mark’s Square in central Venice. The large-scale installation is the work of Spanish artist Manolo Valdés and on view for the 60th Venice Biennale that opened earlier this month. Known for recontextualizing
This week, the return of the “dumbphone,” the future of music criticism, and a primer on how to title an academic paper.
Perfectly timed for maximum press attention, the performative closure of the country’s pavilion is opportunistic and cynical.
I’m really interested in fruit, especially ones I’ve never tried, and I’ve loved following Florida Fruit Geek , aka Craig Hepworth, on Instagram, where he posts photos and info about the unusual fruits he grows (in Gainesville). Hepworth recently hosted a “ fruitluck ,” where
Each of 69 squares is being sold as a print to directly support a family trying to flee Gaza.
Guerrilla Girls share an MLK-inspired letter the artist sent them in 1994.
The exhibition Disguise the Limit highlights the many different ways Yau has worked with a wide range of visual artists over the past five decades.
[Voiceover]: The Nautilus had no heat or insulation — nothing but bare metal separated them from the frigid Arctic waters. The crew were constantly sickened with food poisoning and dosed with lead from the soldering in the submarine’s pipes. Attempting the pole this late in the
Beatriz Nascimento’s groundbreaking research defied dominant White Brazilian academic narratives, instead emphasizing Black political agency.
“My practice has grown in new ways just from being in close proximity to other artists.”
Photojournalist Mohammed Salem captured a Palestinian woman embracing the body of her niece, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike.
The move follows several high-profile seizures of artworks of questionable provenance by the Manhattan DA.
The Guardian published a photo of the now-terminated technician’s artwork, along with details about his motive for secretly installing it in the museum.
If you’re looking for more newsletters to read, here’s One Newsletter I Always Make Time to Read from Inbox Collective. OTOH, what I really want is a list along the lines of One Newsletter I’m Glad I No Longer Read. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
I’ve been thinking about something I posted last week — in an excerpt from his new book The Work of Art , former New York magazine editor Adam Moss described the art he makes as bad: “When I left my job, I began to paint more seriously,” he wrote . “That was the beginning of my
TFW you find a Neanderthal jaw in your parents’ new travertine tile… 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
By interacting with Eloïse Bonneviot and Anne de Boer’s spatial installation in Prague, viewers create speculative scenarios for an ecologically aware city.
From Israel’s ongoing assault leaving the people of Gaza in horrific destitution to a record-breaking surge of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, the last year has seen incredible devastation around the globe. The 2024 World Press Photo contest gathers a profound and
Here are some more journal comics from this past December when I was guest-editing the site. Tags: comics 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
A family of beavers in Canada has built a dam that’s twice as wide as the Hoover Dam. This huge dam is kind of a click-baity promotion (it worked!) but the essence of the video is how beavers can help make landscapes more resilient to effects of climate change. It’s so big it
“ You still don’t see the link? It’s right there on the bottom of the Slack thread from yesterday about which shared drive folders link to Dropbox folders that contain all the shared PDFs.” (This is why I work, primarily, alone.) 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
The strange and turbulent global world of ant geopolitics . “There are roughly 200,000 times more ants on our planet than the 100 billion stars in the Milky Way.” And they are amazingly talented at spreading. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Stamped with a footprint and burned patches, Hadi Rahnaward ’s matchstick rug at Palais de Tokyo frays at the edges. Titled “Fragile Balance,” the meticulously laid installation is part of the exhibition Dislocations curated in partnership Portes ouvertes sur l’art , a
Several years ago in the Guardian, Oliver Burkeman wrote a piece called This column will change your life: Helsinki Bus Station Theory . It’s about how difficult it can be as a creative person to find your way to making work that feels like it’s uniquely yours. There are two
Wired’s Steven Levy on how 8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI . (They developed the pivotal “transformer” idea…you know, the “T” in “GPT”.) 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Cosmologists understand what happened after the Big Bang. But what was our Universe before then? Enter the quantum multiverse - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
The term is ubiquitous and double-edged. It is both a key source of authentic knowledge and a danger to true solidarity - by Patrick J Casey Read at Aeon
When my Crohn's disease took away food, it took what it means to be human.