What history nerd doesn’t thrill to Thomas Edison speaking to us from beyond the grave in a 50th anniversary repeat of his groundbreaking 1877 spoken word recording of (those hoping for loftier stuff should dial it down now) Mary Had a Little Lamb? The original represents the
Before electronic amplification, instrument makers and musicians had to find newer and better ways to make themselves heard among ensembles and orchestras and above the din of crowds. Many of the acoustic instruments we’re familiar with today—guitars, cellos, violas, etc.—are
A senator’s letter revealed that governments can compel Apple and Google to release push notification data about their customers.
A predicted pandemic cliff for women’s employment never materialized and records are now falling.
A hot Harvard course centers on — who else? — Taylor Swift, and a crucial global economy will be led by a wild card.
This week, a giant sand maze in Miami, how to free yourself from big tech, Eric Adams’s bad luck streak, the fringe benefits of near-sightedness, and more.
Comprising thousands of pieces of Favrile glass, the 20-foot installation shares a common language with the era's Impressionist paintings.
While painting on canvas often slows life right down, paper works were frequently the stuff of sketchbooks, not necessarily labored over in some studio.
Portraits by Caledonia Curry (aka Swoon) reveal the connectedness of bodies, psychological landscapes, landforms, and built environments.
While the world is burning outside the ephemeral veneer of this week, artists at NADA, Untitled, and Ink Miami explore intimacy, femininity, and Latinidad.
Josiah McElheny’s latest sculptures reject traditionally idealized forms in favor of the imperfect.
An exhibition of Barbara Nessim’s drawings contextualizes the artist’s graphic portraiture of women against the backdrop of shifting gender roles and equity in the US.
"Why can you buy lasagne flavour snacks in Thailand but not in Italy? Which country can cope with the hottest chili? And why do Germans like paprika so much?"
The nonprofit, based out of the University of Toronto, asked a group of Arab and Muslim artists for a last-minute “sensitivity review” of their exhibition.
“To go all the way from a clone of archaebacteria, in just 3.7 billion years, to the B-Minor Mass and the Late Quartets, deserves a better technical term for the record than randomness,” the poetic scientist Lewis Thomas wrote in his forgotten masterpiece of perspective. This
"Combing through decades of meal memories, and New York’s diamond district, to find a long-lost garlic dish from childhood."
Water, skeletons, and the origins of life usher in a major retrospective of the exquisite, otherworldly garments of Iris van Herpen ( previously ). On view now at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs , Sculpting the Senses is a celebration of the Dutch designer’s groundbreaking
Explore new directions in your work with artists from around the world while being inspired by studio spaces and facilities in the Canadian Rocky Mountains.
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Selected Work, 1988–2023 at Flea Street features early landscapes of France, Italy, New Mexico, and more recent cityscapes of Paris, San Francisco, and New York.
The multidisciplinary artist wanted us to imagine how we can shape society and uplift our communities
Whether ocean-themed, compact with a slide-out keyboard, or installed vertically on the wall, Love Hultén ’s elaborate custom synthesizers ( previously ) are one-of-a-kind. Combining a love for woodworking and sound art, the Gothenburg, Sweden-based artist and designer merges
The Cloisters, but make it gingerbread . (On view at the Museum of the City of New York until January 15.) 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
My daughter is home sick, so there will be fewer posts from me today. But I will be back tomorrow, I hope! PS: Please feel free to ask me any questions, either here in the comments or in an email . Tuesday will be my last day, and I enjoy posting these mini Q&As. Turns out I
Digging into the pre-history of atheism, the historian Alec Ryrie finds its roots in medieval incredulity and resentments - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Next year marks the 100th anniversary of surrealism, an enduring movement the poet André Breton sparked in 1924. Countless artists across disciplines have been inspired by the uncanny, unconscious, and fantastic, a few of which are celebrated in a forthcoming book written by
From the Irish Giant to the Ancient One, is it ever ethical for scientists and museums to study bodies without permission? - by Anita Guerrini Read at Aeon