Adia Victoria’s version of “You Was Born To Die” (feat. Kyshona, Margo Price, & Jason Isbell) knocked me flat. She’s one of the eight women of color set to open Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit’s upcoming series of concerts at Nashville’s Ryman Aud…
Concrete Thinking
“What’s the most underrated material in the modern world? How about CONCRETE?
Often dismissed as boring, ugly & inert. Concrete is actually surprising, dynamic & incredibly complex. With that in mind here are a few reasons why we need to start …
Rewild Your Attention
“If you want to have wilder, curiouser thoughts, you have to avoid the industrial monocropping of big-tech feeds. You want an intellectual forest, overgrown with mushrooms and towering weeds and a massive dead log where a family of raccoons has taken u…
Hunka Down, Survive, and Strutt With Landis Expandis
Baltimore DJ/musician/painter Landis Expandis may be hunkering down, but together with his clones Harry and Larry he reminds us that even in this pandemic, It’s Not the Same Day as Yesterday (YT). Expandis (real name Landis McCord) regards his latest …
Limber Up! It’s Cartooning Workout Time!
The Center for Cartoon Studies (previously, previously, previously) is offering a free, self-directed One-Week Cartooning Workout eCourse. Just remember: “The awful comic you make is always going to be better than the perfect comic you never make.”–In…
Chocolate Box Art
Sure, maybe the Candy Wrapper Museum includes a McVitie’s Penguin. But does it have an extraordinarily rare Cadbury Chocolate Box, illustrated by Arthur Rackham in 1933? Please enjoy the story of Luxury assortment: the British artists behind Cadbury’s …
The Bittersweet Art of Felix Gonzalez-Torres
“Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) by Felix Gonzalez-Torres – National Portrait Gallery video: “In this ‘portrait’ of his deceased partner, Ross Laycock, Gonzalez-Torres created a spill of candies that approximated Ross’s weight (175 lbs.) when he w…
Palate to palette
To help celebrate Sweet Art week, I bring you…the Jelly Belly Bean Art Collection. “Each subject presents its own unique challenge, whether it is figuring out how to make a light saber look like it’s actually glowing, creating the illusion of transpa…
Space cake, fridge scat, and cow-shouting for SCIENCE!
Question: What’s the weirdest thing you’ve done in the name of science?
“Administered enemas made of raspberries to mice.”
(Twitter thread found via Nature Index)
The Art, Science, and Mystery of Sleep
Sleep schedule all jacked up*? Stuck at home? Explore–virtually–the American Visionary Art Museum’s current exhibit, The Science and Mystery of Sleep (alt YT). What about the exhibition’s visual components?
“It is anchored by three handmade bedrooms…