NYC’s Longest-Running Photo Fair Is Back, and Packs a Punch
Even the world's most proliferated images appear novel when they're blown up on glossy paper at the Photography Show presented by AIPAD.
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Palestine Solidarity Shines at the New York Art Book Fair
This year’s show is an imaginative and openly political space that flies in the face of the commercial book sphere.
Yo-Yo Ma Performs Bach in Alaska for Earth Day
This is a nice thing to end the week on: Yo-Yo Ma playing “Bach’s Prélude from Suite No. 2, amidst the melting permafrost on Lower Tanana Dene lands in Fairbanks, Alaska.” He was brought to this birch forest by Princess Daazhraii Johnson , a member of the Neets’aii Gwich’in
At Age 78, Actor John Lithgow Goes Back to Art School
Art Happens Here With John Lithgow , a one-hour PBS special premiering tonight, follows the thespian as he explores various creative forms at four LA art centers.
Yesss, Run Lola Run is returning to theaters for its 25th anniversary....
Yesss, Run Lola Run is returning to theaters for its 25th anniversary . A 4K digital restoration will start showing on June 7. I loved this movie — saw it in the theater when it came out but haven’t seen it in many years. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
The first episode of the podcast featuring astrophysicist Katie Mack explaining the...
The first episode of the podcast featuring astrophysicist Katie Mack explaining the universe to John Green is up! It’s about the first two minutes of the universe. “We are not just made of stardust; we are also made of Big Bang stuff.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Adam Roberts and his partner dined at Noma (aka “The Best Restaurant...
Adam Roberts and his partner dined at Noma (aka “The Best Restaurant in the World”) and he was thwarted by some pre-meal queasiness & the challenging cuisine . “You don’t seem like yourself. You look haunted.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
The Man Who Killed Google Search, i.e. how “growth-hungry managerial types” from...
The Man Who Killed Google Search , i.e. how “growth-hungry managerial types” from Google’s ad business chased out the old search team “to make Google worse to make the company more money”. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
The Paradise Notebooks: A Poet and a Geologist’s Love Letter to Life Lensed Through a Mountain
"Each world bears all the worlds we might find within it. If you understand one outcropping of stone, or one wildflower, or one hummingbird — if we see our way along the tracery of cause and effect, the mystery of change and recreation — then we are led to everything we see,
Two Decades After Its Release, ‘The Art Book for Children’ Gets a Vibrant Makeover
First published in 1997, Phaidon’s The Art Book has long been a go-to source for introductions to some of the most influential artists. Spanning medieval to modern times, the volume contains more than 600 works and is available in 20 languages. About two decades ago, the iconic
Watch Chuck Jones Draw Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig
This is great: a 25-minute interview with legendary animator Chuck Jones as he sits and draws some of his iconic characters (Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck). He told this anecdote about how Steven Spielberg and George Lucas were both influenced by a particular space-themed
Christopher Slayton built a bunch of iconic cosmic structures in Minecraft, including...
Christopher Slayton built a bunch of iconic cosmic structures in Minecraft , including the Sun, the Pillars of Creation, galaxies, a supermassive black hole, and galaxies. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Jason Limon Gets to the Heart of Human Emotion in His Soul-Stirring Skeleton Paintings
Reaching toward universal experiences unclouded by specific identities, Jason Limon strips his recurring characters to the bare bones. The San Antonio-based artist ( previously ) continues his uncanny paintings of skeletons, who find themselves in precarious, startling, and
An experimental data sonification of what a “decentralized, digitized, decarbonized electricity grid”...
An experimental data sonification of what a “decentralized, digitized, decarbonized electricity grid” would sound like . “Should we be dramatic, Hans-Zimmer-style ‘bahhhhhhhhnnnnn’ sounds? Or more ambient?” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Sounds like The Onion has been rescued from an agonizing death by...
Sounds like The Onion has been rescued from an agonizing death by private equity by an acquisition by people who actually care about it . “The Onion is just an institution. It should be preserved and it should be great.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Stéphane Thidet Challenges Physics and Social Norms in His Site-Specific Installations
Paris-based artist Stéphane Thidet invites viewers into wondrous worlds that skew perceptions and distort the laws of physics: a small wooden boat appears to arise from hard planks, flat stones nest inside a bookcase where paper tomes once stood, and water cascades from a
What would Thucydides say?
In constantly reaching for past parallels to explain our peculiar times we miss the real lessons of the master historian - by Mark Fisher Read at Aeon
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Pieces from Benji Jones, Howard Bryant, Carey Baraka, Sally Jenkins, and Jeannette Cooperman.
The Origins of Anime: Watch Early Japanese Animations (1917 to 1931)
Japanese animation, AKA anime, might be filled with large-eyed maidens, way cool robots, and large-eyed, way cool maiden/robot hybrids, but it often shows a level of daring, complexity and creativity not typically found in American mainstream animation. And the form has spawned
Books don’t sell
That’s not true, actually. Books sell, but book doesn’t. The odds of a particular book selling a lot of copies are close to zero. The truth of the long tail is that most titles are way out on the fringe. Now that book publishing is unleashed from retail distribution, the math
What Would Happen If a Nuclear Bomb Hit a Major City Today: A Visualization of the Destruction
One of the many memorable details in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, placed prominently in a shot of George C. Scott in the war room, is a binder with a spine labeled “WORLD TARGETS IN MEGADEATHS.” A megadeath, writes Eric
A Racial Slur and a Fort Myers High Baseball Team Torn Apart
"The avalanche of broken relationships within this baseball community at Fort Myers High . . . served as a microcosm for a polarized country."