Green’s Dictionary of Slang is “is the largest historical dictionary of English slang” that contains “nearly 100,000 entries supported by over 400,000 citations from c. ad 1000 to the present day”. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Art handlers and facility workers have been negotiating for a second contract since November.
You can see these young makers exploring techniques, probing theory, trying things out — a refreshing feeling in a city of slick art in white cubes.
My daughter is home sick from daycare, and I’m letting her watch my phone unlimitedly. She’s absorbed in it but made an exception to look up and point at the above picture, from an entry in Chadwick Matlin’s newsletter Writ Small, about the book Today , by Julie Morstad. The
From Kevin Kelly on the occasion of his 73rd birthday, 101 bits of additional life advice . “Most arguments are not really about the argument, so most arguments can’t be won by arguing.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
The exhibition brings resounding echoes of resistance amid an enduring struggle for Indigenous autonomy across the American continents.
“my therapist just told me that the NYT word games app is becoming a problem for many of her patients, including me … she asked me how long i spent every day doing them and i LIED ” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Work by 31 emerging visual and sound artists on view April 20–May 19 in NYC.
Presented by the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the Taiwan Collateral Event takes place in a dark, home-like setting at the Palazzo delle Prigioni.
There were no injuries or damages reported.
The re-release of Interstellar in 70mm IMAX on my birthday? Don’t mind if I do! “Interstellar will fly back into theaters on Sept. 27, 2024. It will be shown in 70mm Imax prints (Nolan’s preferred format), as well as on digital screens.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Anyone who’s tried to untangle a ball of yarn understands that fibers have a habit of knotting in ways that can seem impossible to unwind. These twisting, interlaced qualities ground much of Tali Weinberg ’s fiber-based work as she pulls at the individual threads of our
“R men ok?????” Boy Room is a new video series that features tours of the “squalid” bedrooms of young men. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Black Twitter: A People’s History is a three-part Hulu documentary series directed by Pentice Penny (Insecure) premiering in May. It’s based on Jason Parham’s Wired article of the same name . 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Really fascinating piece by Michael Habib in Scientific American about how amazing feathers are : they come in so many different shapes and sizes and do so many things (insulate, keep dry, flying, noise dampening, etc. etc. etc.) And I loved the opening anecdote: In October
Written in blocky, bright typography, “We hold these truths to be self-evident” wraps the top of the neoclassical facade of the U.S. Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale. The opening lines from the Declaration of Independence greet visitors to the groundbreaking exhibition the
A bar chart race visualization of the most popular desktop operating systems from 1985 to the present . Just overwhelming dominance by Microsoft — but an impressive comeback from Apple in the 2010s. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
The hidden potential of bicycles . “Bicycles have been used for so long as children’s toys and exercise equipment that we forget what useful technology they represent. They multiply our bodies’ speed and efficiency many times over.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
“Hearing the rising tide,” Rachel Carson wrote in her poetic meditation on the ocean and the meaning of life, “there are echoes of past and future: of the flow of time, obliterating yet containing all that has gone before… of the stream of life, flowing as inexorably as any
Love is much more than a mere emotion or moral ideal. It imbues the world itself and we should learn to move with its power - by Mark Vernon Read at Aeon
Featuring stories from Josh Dzieza, Mark Krotov, Wendy Brenner, Paul Brown, and Andrew Normal Wilson.
We now live, as one often hears, in an age of few musical superstars, but towering ones. The popular culture of the twenty-twenties can, at times, seem to be contained entirely within the person of Taylor Swift — at least when the media magnet that is Beyoncé takes a breather.
Expertise and firmly held beliefs don’t always go together. Here’s a simple XY grid to help us choose where to sit at whatever table we’re invited to: Plenty of well-trained professionals have earned the right to have strongly held beliefs. These convictions save them time and
“I feel like every single frame of the film is burned into my retina,” said Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett about the movie Stalker (1979). “I hadn’t seen anything like it before and I haven’t really seen anything like it since. Andrei Tarkovsky’s final film in the USSR
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. Known for recontextualizing the iconic figures, colors, and
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.