Russian Burger King Campaign Isn’t the First to Mix Art and Advertising
There’s a lot of back-and-forth between these worlds
Channel Childhoods Gone By With This Digital Archive of Victorian Children’s Books
From nursery rhymes to religious lectures, this digital archive shows how kids read in a bygone age
A Statue of Lenin Has Finally Come Down from Red Square…in New York City
One of Manhattan’s strangest buildings has lost its mascot
How Arnold Palmer and President Eisenhower Made Golf the Post-War Pastime
The charismatic, working-class golfer and beloved president made golf the sport of elites and middle-class duffers for a generation
Getty Instagram Grant Winners Document the Drama of the Everyday
From teen moms to slices of street life
This Music Was Composed by Climate Change
Dying forests make magnificently melancholy listening
This Group Celebrates Kenya’s Religious Diversity by Painting Religious Centers Yellow
Painting for pluralism
A British Jail Is Paying Artistic Tribute to Oscar Wilde, its Most Famous Inmate
Patti Smith, Ai Weiwei and others envision what it’s like to be Inside
Amateur Archaeologist Discovers Significant Amount of Scotland’s Ancient Rock Art
Musician and avid walker George Currie has catalogued 670 pieces of prehistoric rock art in the Highlands
Augmented Reality Art Imagines What Could Be Seattle’s Weird, Bleak Future
Artist envisions mutant flowers and drone-like seaweed that may one day take over a post-climate change Seattle
A New Choral Work Was Inspired by the Death of Matthew Shepard
“Considering Matthew Shepard” finds hope inside a story of hate
Visit the Manuscript of ‘Jane Eyre’ in New York
The handwritten novel is in the United States for the first time—along with an exhibition of artifacts from Charlotte Brontë’s brief and brilliant life
You Could Own F. Scott Fitzgerald’s House
Live in the Victorian rowhouse where a career was born
You’ll Want to Sit on Guggenheim’s Latest Piece, an 18-Karat Golden Toilet
Maurizio Cattelan returns from retirement with this pretentious potty
Five Things to Know About the Most Recent Census Income Report
Income’s up, but the picture is more complicated than that
Four Finds from University of Kansas’ Collection of Radical Zines
The university’s Solidarity! Radical Library boasts a collection of almost 1,000 alternative papers
The New York Public Library’s Radical Zine Collection Is Now on Display
Check out pamphlets from people like Noam Chomsky and Mumia Abu-Jamal
What Will the Memorials of the Future Look Like?
From underwater trees to mechanical parrots, the memorials of tomorrow don’t look much like the ones that exist today
Curators Are One Piece Closer to Solving the Mystery of Magritte’s Missing Painting
The Enchanted Pose is coming back from the dead—one painted-over quarter at a time
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