People & culture
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Looking at Colonial Photographs : Memory, Posture, & Place
[ad_1] Series: Open Knowledge Fellowship 2025 Show articles▼ Have archival photographs ever looked back at you? Dragged you into its frames? Made you pause not just to see, but to feel, to guess, to remember, or to imagine? There is a strange alchemy when one is looking at colonial photographs. A photograph can certainly freeze…
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Good Time Society Kicks Off New ‘Blood On The Clocktower Ser…
[ad_1] This week, Good Time Society released the first episode of Good Time On The Clocktower, their eight-part Blood on the Clocktower series. The show, starring a huge cast of comedians and performers, pits players against each other in a twisted game of social deduction, manipulation, and even murder. Blood on the Clocktower is a hidden…
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How Frank Gehry (RIP) and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Chang…
[ad_1] It felt, for quite some time there, like the age of Frank Gehry would never end. But now that the latest defining figure of American architecture — or technically, Canadian-American architecture — has died at the age of 96, the time has come to ask when, exactly, his age began. Or rather, with which building: Walt…
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The Shepherd and the Wolf: Wake Up Dead Man Asks Us to Face …
[ad_1] Fans of the beloved Knives Out film franchise will not be surprised to see detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) make a dramatic entrance at a crucial point in its latest installment, Wake Up Dead Man. They may, however, be surprised to see him make that entrance as a direct answer to prayer. And Blanc…
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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 a barber, was just 14 when he began studying art, while Constable, born…
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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 each frame lies a pressing question that colonial visual records often fail to answer: who were these people? Photograph of…
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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 courage it takes to be a super hero from the Man Without Fear himself! In addition, the one-shot will…
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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 now and again as a man of science — or, more practically, a man of technology.…
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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 comfort from Spooky Season. I know what they’re talking about; I’m not…
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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 Indigenous people remain stopped in time, living only in the past. In perpetuating the myth of the “Vanishing Indian”,…