Spiritualist Art by Women Has Officially Made Its Way in from the Margins
What all these women have in common is that they’ve become fixtures in Western institutions in the past few years. Houghton is currently the subject of a show at Australia’s…
Indiana University Cancels Survey for Palestinian Painter Samia Halaby
News of the Halaby show’s cancelation at Indiana University became public as the school was already facing scrutiny. On Wednesday, the Herald-Times reported that the university had suspended professor Abdulkader…
She’s serving Cnut
this is EXTREMELY my sh!t
Jesus H. Christ
Where does the 'H' come from and what does it stand for?
No such thing as the oldest language
It's easy to find claims that certain languages are old or even the oldest, but which one is actually true? Fortunately, there's an easy (though unsatisfying) answer: none of them!…
Dr. King – Housing March in Gage Park Chicago, 1966
Archive Footage - Black & White - Dr. King being stoned in broad daylight in Gage Park, Chicago, on August 5, 1966.
James Bridle on our New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
As the world around us increases in technological complexity, our understanding of it diminishes. Underlying this trend is a single idea: the belief that our existence is understandable through computation,…
We’re Coming To Get Our Check
Martin Luther King Jr. was not just the safe-for-all-political-stripes civil-rights activist he is often portrayed as today. He was never just the “I Have a Dream” speech. He was an…
The World’s Most Famous Mouse Joins the Public Domain
This year we are welcoming many works from 1928 into the U.S. public domain (books, movies, images, etc.), as well as recorded sound from 1923. Some of the big events…