Seven of the greatest rivalries in art history
[ad_1] Born just a year apart (Turner in sooty London in 1775, Constable in a serene Suffolk village in 1776), the two were, from the first, “fire and water” opposites, as another reviewer in 1831 would describe them. Turner, whose father was…
Unnamed People and Forgotten Lives in the Archive
[ad_1] In Kerala’s colonial photography archives, people gaze back at us – some named, categorized, but many left entirely unrecorded. These photographs from British-era Kerala capture moments of stillness: people working, posing, witnessing. But behind…
Jeff The Landshark Meets The Man Without Fear In New Crossov…
[ad_1] Writer and Jeff the Land Shark co-creator Kelly Thompson and artist duo and Marvel Stormbreaker artists Gurihiru continue their Eisner-winning work on It’s Jeff this February in It’s Jeff Meets Daredevil! The one-shot sees Jeff discover the…
The Unlikely Friendship of Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla
[ad_1] Mark Twain was, in the estimation of many, the United States of America’s first truly homegrown man of letters. And in keeping with what would be recognized as the can-do American spirit, he couldn’t resist putting himself forth…
A Death Worth Hallowing – Christ and Pop Culture
[ad_1] For many people there is a reflexive shudder that rips through them upon seeing homes decorated for Halloween. They clutch the pearls of their souls as their color drains to ghostly white. How can you like something so morbid? I draw tremendous…
Why this Indigenous winter scene is not what it seems
[ad_1] Curtis saw his mission as “documenting what he thought of as ‘a dying race’,” Cross tells the BBC. He cropped out from his photos “signs of modernity” such as clocks, she says, serving the illusion that…
a 19th-century Manuscript Reflects Indigenous and Colonial A…
[ad_1] Series: Open Knowledge Fellowship 2025 Show articles▼ Currently reading: #6: The Elephant in the Bodleian: a 19th-century Manuscript Reflects Indigenous and Colonial Approaches to Knowledge In George Orwell’s essay Shooting an Elephant (1936), the…
Harvest Fall Festival Expansion Increases the Fun
[ad_1] Seasons might be all over the place these days but Harvest: Fall Festival!, the first expansion to Keymaster Games’ Harvest is a satisfying addition to what was already one of the most enjoyable games I have. Successfully Kickstarted last year,…
What Makes Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon Perhaps the M…
[ad_1] Practically anyone could take one glance at Les Demoiselles d’Avignon and identify it as a Picasso, even if they’ve never seen it before and couldn’t say anything else about it. That alone goes some way to explaining why the painting would…
Returning to the Upside Down: A CAPC Stranger Things Retrosp…
[ad_1] With its blend of nerdy references (e.g., Dungeons & Dragons), government conspiracies (e.g., MKUltra), the filmmaking of Steven Spielberg and John Carpenter, and good old ’80s nostalgia, Stranger Things has been one of Netflix’s most popular…