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Can You Draw a Perfect Circle?

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The Three Elements of the Good Life

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Woodland Creatures Inhabit an Imaginary World in Kanako Abe’s Intricate Paper Cuts

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Some advice on giving good advice. “Not every situation...

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Thomas Hart Benton's Sanitized American Idyll

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The Earth in the Sky

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Derrick Adams, Randy Polumbo, Wills Glasspiegel & More Artists Project Newly-Commissioned Works Onto Historic Hangars in Brooklyn

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Gather 'Round, Willie Birch Is Speaking

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TIL they can do wing replacements on injured...

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John Wilson’s ‘The History of Concrete’ Is Anything But Mundane

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How to Be a Poet: Elizabeth Alexander on the Yin-Yang of Connection and Contradiction

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Engaging read on how the Bugs Bunny cartoon What’s Opera,...

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The 25 Photos That Changed Fashion Forever. “It didn’t...

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My Two Front Teeth

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He Was One of the World’s Most Wanted Men. So He Bought a West African Country.

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How the West was fun

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How Tarot Survived for 500 Years

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Badge vs Scoreboard

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When Salvador Dalí Gave a Surrealist Lecture in a Diving Suit … and Almost Suffocated (1936)

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Watch Interplanetary Revolution (1924): The Most Bizarre Soviet Animated Propaganda Film You’ll Ever See

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Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life

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Art Problems: If I Have a Day Job, Am I a Real Artist?

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Met Museum Brokers Return of Three Artworks to Nigeria

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Duo Calls to Oust Leon Black in Protest Outside MoMA

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Some Newsletter Tidying

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Tarot for a Broken World

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A thoughtful review of Nolan’s The Odyssey, comparing it...

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Armory Week is Here

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Microscopic Universes Come Alive in Nikon’s Small World in Motion Contest

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Mary Cassatt: The Impressionist Who Painted The Mind

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Sarah Michelson’s Delicate Fetish Play

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KnotChat: Rodrigo Delavina Simon

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3D models for every single object in Katamari Damacy, all...

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The Vampire Problem: The Paradoxical Psychology of Why It Is So Hard to Change

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Ross Anderson on NASA’s recently launched Nancy Grace...

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Emmy Star Brown’s Vivid Murals Channel Youthfulness and Play

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Canyon Groove. What if the grooves on a record were...

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Impossibility is a Myth

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10 Art Shows to See in the Bay Area This Fall

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Dimensional Drawings of Apple Products

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Annie Dillard and the Writing Life

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10 Public Artworks to See Across the US This Fall

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Diverse and Dramatic Behaviors Top the 2026 Bird Photographer of the Year Contest

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"Modernity and Opulence: Women of the Wiener Werkstätte" at the Jewish Museum

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What’s your “origin” video game? “I’m talking about the...

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Lead, Create, & Innovate: University of Michigan’s Master of Design Program

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How to Hold the Darkness: Notes on Living Through Uncertainty

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TIL Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris (aka The Hunchback...

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The Incredible Journey of a Migratory Shorebird

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“The best next steps are the concrete ones: Big AI needs...

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