Artist Richard Serra, Who Warped Space With Steel, Dies at 85
At once aloof and inviting, his gargantuan and often controversial sculptures draw viewers in for an experience of the sublime.
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The Darkness That Blew My Mind
"Embarking on four days of total blackout, inside the sensory equivalent of a tomb, our writer went on a dark-cave retreat, the same one that quarterback Aaron Rodgers did."
British Museum Sues Former Curator Over Alleged Thefts
Peter Higgs worked with the museum’s Greek collections for 30 years before he was dismissed last August.
In His Ongoing ‘Descendants’ Series, Drew Gardner Recreates Striking Portraits of Black Civil War Soldiers
The idea for Drew Gardner ’s series Descendants emerged from a simple observation by his mother: she noticed that Gardner resembled his grandfather. Intrigued by how traits are passed down—not just as physical likeness but the elemental foundations of DNA—he began researching
Who the Hell Came Up With an Artemisia Gentileschi “Rape Room”?
An exhibition at the Palazzo Ducale in Genova trades a celebration of the pioneering artist’s opus for a violent spectacle.
Canadian Arts Funder Faces Pressure to Divest From Israeli Weapons Supplier
Scotiabank, which funds the Hot Docs Film Festival and the Toronto Biennial of Art, among others, is the largest individual foreign shareholder of Elbit Systems.
Three Tribeca Gallery Newcomers on What Drew Them to the Neighborhood
James Fuentes, Asya Geisberg, and Gabrielle Giattino of Bureau have all decamped from their original spaces this month.
Mar Dixon, Social Media Guru Who Launched #AskACurator, Dies at 53
Dixon harnessed the accessibility of online platforms to help demystify museums and encourage the public to connect with the arts.
Selva Aparicio’s Memorials to Loss and Renewal
Aparicio treats unwanted things with extreme sensitivity, personally gathering and storing them over many years, renewing them with remarkable vision.
You can make friends with crows, and this thread from Carl T...
You can make friends with crows, and this thread from Carl T Bergstrom will tell you how. I want crow friends, but we’ve only got robins and sparrows. “It’s so much fun to have bird friends who recognize you.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
VALIE EXPORT Insists on Taking Up Space
EXPORT’s urban interventions in her exhibition Embodied alert us to the risks of being read as femme in a highly visible, public space.
A Los Angeles Residency Envisions a Radical Future for Experimental Art
Coaxial Arts serves as a crucial resource and hub for LA-based video and multimedia artists, who have rallied around the organization as it weathers financial challenges.
Musical Clock Museum in Utrecht
Jason’s only got one rule for guest editors and it’s, “If you’re going to post about Utrecht once, you have to post about Utrecht three times,” which is a bad rule imo and problematic for me because I don’t know anything about Utrecht except they got bones full of drugs there
Is It Even Possible to Become More Productive?
"I read all the books and tried all the hacks in a mad quest to optimize my time."
Fish Doorbell in Utrecht
Fish in the Netherlands travel upstream to spawn in the spring, but unfortunately for the fish in Utrecht, the boat lock on the river through the city is closed in the spring. Ecologists put a camera on the bottom of the lock, and viewers around the world can watch a livestream
Old Bone Full of Old Drugs Found in Utrecht
Researchers from the Freie Universität Berlin working in the Netherlands recently found a little bone container full of drugs in a pile of 86,000 other bones they had found outside a farm in what is now the Dutch city of Utrecht . Initially the researchers missed the find
Elaborate Still Lifes Erupt with Vivid Color in Eric Wert’s Oil Paintings
“For me, the experience of painting an object reveals just how alien and unknowable it truly is,” says Eric Wert , whose vibrant still lifes seem to glow from within. From decadent bouquets that overflow from their vases to a pair of rain-speckled magnolia branches, the
Ilia Malinin Is Good As Hell At Ice Skating
Ilia Malinin is 19 and just won the world championship title of international ice skating or something by being an absolute wizard on ice skates. I’ve only been on ice skates 6 or 7 times in my life and I’m getting better, but I’m still kinda wobbly, so don’t take my word for
When Hollywood Needs a Historically Accurate Outfit That Looks Just Right, It Turns to Rabbit Goody
How do filmmakers get period clothing to look the part? Inside the textile workshop where the past comes to life
The cell is not a factory
Scientific narratives project social hierarchies onto nature. That’s why we need better metaphors to describe cellular life - by Charudatta Navare Read at Aeon
The Oldest Known Photographs of India (1863–1870)
After about a century of indirect company rule, India became a full-fledged British colony in 1858. The consequences of this political development remain a matter of heated debate today, but one thing is certain: it made India into a natural destination for enterprising
The drift to normal
As an organization grows in scale, the idiosyncrasy and distinctiveness that was originally informed by the taste of the founders moves toward the mean. Over time, things get more average. That’s because each new customer, each new supplier and each new employee wants or needs
3,000 Illustrations of Shakespeare’s Complete Works from Victorian England, Presented in a Digital Archive
“We can say of Shakespeare,” wrote T.S. Eliot—in what may sound like the most backhanded of compliments from one writer to another—“that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.” Eliot, it’s true, was not overawed by the Shakespearean canon; he
Brandon Semenuk Flipping His Bicycle Off the Side of a Mountain
The thing about going out into the badlands of Alberta and riding your bicycle off the side of the mountain and doing flips where you kick your legs out and such, is the flips isn’t really the hardest part here. The hard part is making it look as great and stylish as Brandon