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Chindōgu: The Japanese Art of “Unuseless” Inventions

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Five New York City Art Shows We Love Right Now

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Meet the Members of Mamdani’s Arts and Culture Transition Committee

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My Car Is Becoming a Brick. “Cars used to be entirely mechanical...

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A Sculpture Made of Tens of Thousands of Aluminum Facets Writhes in a Knoxville Park

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To Explore Violence Against Women, She Drugs Herself Onstage. “It’s an attempt...

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What’s the difference between an artist and a creator? “An artist is...

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December 2025 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

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Does Harrison Ford Know His Lines?

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Small Japanese Pickup Truck Shows Bigger is Definitely Not Better. “Kei trucks...

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The Hotel California (and subscriptions)

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Ángela Ferrari’s Dramatic Paintings Tease Out a Passionate Play for Power

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America’s Polarization Has Become the World’s Side Hustle. “Social media monetization programs...

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Requiem for Early Blogging. “I still look for people with early blogger...

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A wondrous brew

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Complex systems

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How to Improve Your Attention Span: Daniel Pink’s Strategies for the Digital Age

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Watch Winsor McCay’s The Sinking of the Lusitania, the First Major Animated Propaganda Film (1918)

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The Surprising Benefits of Giving Up. A recent meta-analysis reveals that “adjusting...

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Everything Is Not Fine in the Art World

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The Airport-Lounge Wars

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The Most Jaw-Dropping Costumes of the Miss Universe Competition

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Protest Dance Outside Kennedy Center Targets Trump’s Attack on Culture

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Philadelphia Art Museum Accuses Former Director of Theft

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KAWS Makes Art for the Tech Bro Era

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A thread of “feel good” YouTube channels to watch. E.g.: “CinemaTherapy. Two...

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Paying Homage to the Iconoclasts of Abstraction

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Open Reel Ensemble Composes Ethereal ‘Magnetic Folklore’ Using Reel-to-Reel Recorders

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Poetic Textural Landscapes by Lee Hyun-Joung

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Artist Alma Allen to Represent US at 2026 Venice Biennale

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Lots to like about Variety’s list of 100 Best Comedy Movies of...

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How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein...

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Who Was the Foodie?

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What’s All the Fuss About Pluribus?

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The Story John Darnielle Lived to Tell

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Love Against Probability

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“The Little Movie That Couldn’t”: ‘Mallrats’ Turns 30. I can’t remember if...

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“Today, the only naked bodies that many Americans will likely ever see...

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Emotions Manifest as Uncanny Scenarios in Ayako Kita’s Tender Sculptures

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Meet the Aphantasics, Those Who Can’t See Mental Images

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Activists are role-playing ICE raids in games like Fortnite & GTA to...

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