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

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

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

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

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

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

Does Harrison Ford Know His Lines?

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

The Hotel California (and subscriptions)

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

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

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

A wondrous brew

Complex systems

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

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

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

Everything Is Not Fine in the Art World

The Airport-Lounge Wars

The Most Jaw-Dropping Costumes of the Miss Universe Competition

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

Philadelphia Art Museum Accuses Former Director of Theft

KAWS Makes Art for the Tech Bro Era

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

Paying Homage to the Iconoclasts of Abstraction

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

Poetic Textural Landscapes by Lee Hyun-Joung

Artist Alma Allen to Represent US at 2026 Venice Biennale

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

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

Who Was the Foodie?

What’s All the Fuss About Pluribus?

The Story John Darnielle Lived to Tell

Love Against Probability

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

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

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

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

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

Sebastian Foster Releases 20 New Prints for the Holidays

The World Lost the Climate Gamble. Now It Faces a Dangerous New...

The Bad UX World Cup 2025. “Build a date picker with bad...

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