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- A Photographer’s Portrait of the Theater of the Streetsby Francesco Dama on January 23, 2022 at 9:05 pm
A pioneer of street photography, Levitt worked in the most crowded and poorest neighborhoods of New York searching for the theater of everyday life.
- The Materiality of Memory in the Paintings of Eugène Leroyby Jake Romm on January 23, 2022 at 9:04 pm
Leroy's canvases seem to be about age and decay — about the process and limits of recollection made manifest.
- Art Classes Are Helping Transform Medical Educationby Anne Wallentine on January 23, 2022 at 9:03 pm
Classes like Anne Willieme’s are part of the burgeoning field of medical humanities, which aims to tackle the disciplinary divide between art and science.
- Ten North American Museums to Offer 12-Week $6,300 Paid Internshipsby Jasmine Liu on January 23, 2022 at 9:02 pm
Museums in Austin, Louisville, Madison, Montreal, New Orleans, Tampa, and elsewhere will be joining the program, now in its third year.
- Twitter’s New NFT Feature is an Annoying Show-off of Crypto Wealthby Valentina Di Liscia on January 23, 2022 at 9:01 pm
On the bright side: The feature can be muted!
- When The Art Connoisseur Is a Robotby Jasmine Liu on January 23, 2022 at 9:00 pm
A recent study has found that AI technology can identify an artist's brushstrokes with over 90% accuracy.
- Native American Sovereignty’s Impact on the Curation of Indigenous Artby Hyperallergic on January 21, 2022 at 11:16 pm
Join Hyperallergic for an online conversation with Kiowa Tribal Museum Director Tahnee Ahtone on January 25 at 7pm (EST).
- DU’s Emergent Digital Practices Faculty Merge Art & Technology to Inspire Change for Public Goodby University of Denver on January 21, 2022 at 7:00 pm
Graduate students in the University of Denver’s Emergent Digital Practices program work on research with faculty who are engaged directly with their communities, both online and off.
- Required Readingby Hrag Vartanian on January 21, 2022 at 3:36 am
This week, Patrisse Cullors speaks, reviewing John Richardson's final Picasso book, the Met Museum snags a rare oil on copper by Nicolas Poussin, and much more.
- Something Is Not Right With The Worldby John Yau on January 20, 2022 at 10:06 pm
Alexi Worth's paintings demand a double take that allows viewers to look closer and begin dissembling the painting in order to understand what is being looked at.
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- Hear Benedict Cumberbatch Reading Letters by Kurt Vonnegut, Alan Turing, Sol LeWitt, and Othersby Colin Marshall on January 21, 2022 at 3:00 pm
Many know Benedict Cumberbatch as neurosurgeon-turned-Master of the Mystic Arts Doctor Strange. Originally created in the 1960s by Marvel Comics artist and writer Steve Ditko, the character has gained a new fan following through the films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In 2016’s Doctor Strange, the upcoming Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and several other Hear Benedict Cumberbatch Reading Letters by Kurt Vonnegut, Alan Turing, Sol LeWitt, and Others is a post from: Open Culture. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter, or get our Daily Email. And don't miss our big collections of Free Online Courses, Free Online Movies, Free eBooks, Free Audio Books, Free Foreign Language Lessons, and MOOCs.
- How a Fake Cartoon Band Made “Sugar Sugar” the Biggest Selling Hit Single of 1969by Ted Mills on January 21, 2022 at 12:00 pm
Rock critic Lester Bangs described bubblegum pop as “the basic sound of rock ‘n’ roll – minus the rage, fear, violence and anomie.” The short-lived genre had its roots in the Please Please Me era of the Beatles’ minus the sex and the sarcasm. But from the Beatles we can trace a pretty solid path How a Fake Cartoon Band Made “Sugar Sugar” the Biggest Selling Hit Single of 1969 is a post from: Open Culture. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter, or get our Daily Email. And don't miss our big collections of Free Online Courses, Free Online Movies, Free eBooks, Free Audio Books, Free Foreign Language Lessons, and MOOCs.
- A New Album of Goth-Folk Songs Inspired by the Life of Marie Curieby Ayun Halliday on January 21, 2022 at 9:00 am
After several years of writing and performing songs influenced by such sources as authors Edward Gorey and Raymond Chandler, filmmaker Tim Burton, and murder ballads in the American folk tradition, Ellia Bisker and Jeffrey Morris, known collectively as Charming Disaster, began casting around for a single, existing narrative that could sustain an album’s worth of original tunes. An encounter with Lauren A New Album of Goth-Folk Songs Inspired by the Life of Marie Curie is a post from: Open Culture. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter, or get our Daily Email. And don't miss our big collections of Free Online Courses, Free Online Movies, Free eBooks, Free Audio Books, Free Foreign Language Lessons, and MOOCs.
- How Karl Marx Influenced Abraham Lincoln and His Position on Slavery & Laborby Josh Jones on January 20, 2022 at 12:00 pm
If resistance to the Slave Power was the reserved watchword of your first election, the triumphant war cry of your re-election is Death to Slavery. In 1864, Karl Marx and his International Working Men’s Association (the “First International”) sent an address to Abraham Lincoln, congratulating “the American people upon your re-election by a large majority.” How Karl Marx Influenced Abraham Lincoln and His Position on Slavery & Labor is a post from: Open Culture. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter, or get our Daily Email. And don't miss our big collections of Free Online Courses, Free Online Movies, Free eBooks, Free Audio Books, Free Foreign Language Lessons, and MOOCs.
- 1,100 Delicate Drawings of Root Systems Reveals the Hidden World of Plantsby Colin Marshall on January 20, 2022 at 9:00 am
We know that plants can inspire art. If you, personally, still require convincing on that point, just have a look at Elizabeth Twining’s Illustrations of the Natural Orders of Plants, the drawings of Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, Elizabeth Blackwell’s A Curious Herbal, and Nancy Anne Kingsbury Wollstonecraft’s Specimens of the Plants and Fruits of the Island of 1,100 Delicate Drawings of Root Systems Reveals the Hidden World of Plants is a post from: Open Culture. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter, or get our Daily Email. And don't miss our big collections of Free Online Courses, Free Online Movies, Free eBooks, Free Audio Books, Free Foreign Language Lessons, and MOOCs.
- Watch the Destruction of Pompeii by Mount Vesuvius, Re-Created with Computer Animation (79 AD)by OC on January 19, 2022 at 3:00 pm
A good disaster story never fails to fascinate — and, given that it actually happened, the story of Pompeii especially so. Buried and thus frozen in time by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, the ancient Roman town of 11,000 has provided an object of great historical interest ever since its rediscovery in 1599. Watch the Destruction of Pompeii by Mount Vesuvius, Re-Created with Computer Animation (79 AD) is a post from: Open Culture. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter, or get our Daily Email. And don't miss our big collections of Free Online Courses, Free Online Movies, Free eBooks, Free Audio Books, Free Foreign Language Lessons, and MOOCs.
- Read the CIA’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual: A Timeless Guide to Subverting Any Organization with “Purposeful Stupidity” (1944)by OC on January 19, 2022 at 12:00 pm
I’ve always admired people who can successfully navigate what I refer to as “Kafka’s Castle,” a term of dread for the many government and corporate agencies that have an inordinate amount of power over our permanent records, and that seem as inscrutable and chillingly absurd as the labyrinth the character K navigates in Kafka’s last Read the CIA’s <i>Simple Sabotage Field Manual</i>: A Timeless Guide to Subverting Any Organization with “Purposeful Stupidity” (1944) is a post from: Open Culture. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter, or get our Daily Email. And don't miss our big collections of Free Online Courses, Free Online Movies, Free eBooks, Free Audio Books, Free Foreign Language Lessons, and MOOCs.
- Martin Heidegger Talks Philosophy with a Buddhist Monk on German TV (1963)by OC on January 19, 2022 at 9:00 am
Martin Heidegger is often called the most important philosopher of the 20th century. I’m not in a position to evaluate this claim, but his influence on contemporary and successive European and American thinkers is considerable. That influence spread all the way to Thailand, where Buddhist monk and university professor Bhikku Maha Mani came to think Martin Heidegger Talks Philosophy with a Buddhist Monk on German TV (1963) is a post from: Open Culture. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter, or get our Daily Email. And don't miss our big collections of Free Online Courses, Free Online Movies, Free eBooks, Free Audio Books, Free Foreign Language Lessons, and MOOCs.
- Discovered: Lost Johnny Cash Concert Recorded by the Grateful Dead’s LSD Chemist Owsley Stanley (1968)by Ted Mills on January 18, 2022 at 3:00 pm
On January 13, 1968, Johnny Cash recorded his famous live concerts within the walls of Folsom State Prison, California, a week into what would be one of his busiest years of touring. While Columbia Records worked on trimming down the two sets into one LP, Cash set off across the States, into Canada and back, Discovered: Lost Johnny Cash Concert Recorded by the Grateful Dead’s LSD Chemist Owsley Stanley (1968) is a post from: Open Culture. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter, or get our Daily Email. And don't miss our big collections of Free Online Courses, Free Online Movies, Free eBooks, Free Audio Books, Free Foreign Language Lessons, and MOOCs.
- When Andy Warhol Guest-Starred on The Love Boat (1985)by Colin Marshall on January 18, 2022 at 12:00 pm
On Friday, August 31, 1979, Andy Warhol records in his diary that he took a cab to Elaine’s to “meet the guy who might get me a guest appearance on The Love Boat.” But nearly five years pass before he writes that the writers are working on his episode; with the shooting dates set, “I started to get scared, I When Andy Warhol Guest-Starred on <i>The Love Boat</i> (1985) is a post from: Open Culture. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter, or get our Daily Email. And don't miss our big collections of Free Online Courses, Free Online Movies, Free eBooks, Free Audio Books, Free Foreign Language Lessons, and MOOCs.
