Erica Galvin

What can you do with graphic design skills? More and more, it seems, as emerging technologies drive new apps, software, and games. New design challenges are everywhere, from human-machine interfaces, to 3D modeling in video games and animated films, to re-ima.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/UvNeTPY via IFTTT

Magazzino Italian Art Museum in Cold Spring, N.Y., and the Russel Wright Design Center in nearby Garrison deliver ecological messages (meadows, donkeys, and a waterfall included). from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/6mXv0aH via IFTTT

“Some say my Dad’s death was the spark that ignited my depression, but this feeling has been brewing for a while,” says Heather Evans Smith, a photographer based in North Carolina. Memory, loss and family are central to her latest series, which is filled with.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/qD74hAN via IFTTT

As its new gallery spaces open for the season July 1, Foreland’s founder, Stef Halmos, talks of building community in the sprawling Hudson Valley scene. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/zJoij3G via IFTTT

Is “flow state” the new mindfulness? The phrase has gained a lot of currency lately. You may have heard it spoken of in rarified terms that sound like you have to be a full-time artist, professional athlete, or Albert Einstein to access it. On the other hand,.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/s3wqPzk via IFTTT

When they finally get those kinks worked out of the time machine and we can take a tourist trip back to Rome—having signed the non-intervention paperwork, of course—we’re going to need someone to guide us. I propose that should be Garrett Ryan, host of the To.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/L8Kgyi3 via IFTTT

The artist Desmond Lewis brings the glow of professional fireworks to under-resourced communities in the South. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/NnHT18R via IFTTT

Based in Milwaukee, the Ruth Foundation for the Arts starts in the top echelon of arts philanthropy. But the money came as a surprise to many grantees. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/RHs8Nlt via IFTTT

Sculptures by the artists, from underrepresented communities, will be on display as part of the U.S. Tennis Association’s Be Open social justice campaign. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/UKzAfFC via IFTTT

“Songlines have been a central feature of First Nations cultures for over 60,000 years,” explains Common Ground, an Australian First Nations-led not-for-profit dedicated to amplifying Indigenous voices. “They were used by First Nations people as a form of com.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/7KyIWnV via IFTTT

Aaron De Groft was removed from his position days after the F.B.I. seized 25 works that had been shown in a Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibit and whose authenticity had been questioned. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/OlLZbXE via IFTTT

The artists Melvin Edwards and Rashid Johnson reflect on the legacy of their friend, just days after he died at age 88. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/JIksr7t via IFTTT

A gang used a sledgehammer to smash open a display case and make off with jewelry at the renowned Dutch art fair, as dealers looked on, aghast. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/EYW0gTq via IFTTT

Daniel H. Weiss was a stabilizing force, but his departure raises questions about whether the museum’s two-pronged management structure still works and will continue. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/sagu7m2 via IFTTT

Technology is blamed for all manner of societal ills, but in itself, it is neutral. It’s what we do with this tool that matters. Richard Mosse (b. 1980) came to prominence with the series Infra (2010- 2014). Shot in the Democratic Republic of Congo, it was ma.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/fSPwxec via IFTTT

Museums are the memory of our culture and they’re the memory of our planet. – Dr. Kirk Johnson, Director, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History For many of us natural history museums are emblematic of school field trips, or rainy day outings with (or.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/zEX6r0W via IFTTT

When it launched fifteen years ago, the movie podcast Battleship Pretension took its name from two well-known sources: an attitude popularly associated with cinephiles, and a 1925 motion picture by Sergei Eisenstein. To some, merely referencing a silent film .. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/EYtrcJu via IFTTT

In 1992, a strange pine tree appeared in Denver, Colorado. Its goal: to remain as invisible as possible. A product of Larson Co., a company specialising in set design for theme parks, this plant was designed to hide something in plain sight. Unbeknownst to ma.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/U48dVBN via IFTTT

For her groundbreaking research on radioactivity, Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize. Or rather, she won two, one for physics and another for chemistry, making her the only Nobel Laureate in more than one science. What’s more, her first Nobel came in 1903, the v.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/bSVInhi via IFTTT

In 1965, Lou Reed was a 23-year-old graduate stalled in a music and art career he wasn’t sure would take off. A few years earlier a doo-wop single recorded with high school friends had been released to no avail. More recently, a parody of dance-craze singles .. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/EhGyskQ via IFTTT

In 1949, George Orwell received a curious letter from his former high school French teacher. Orwell had just published his groundbreaking book Nineteen Eighty-Four, which received glowing reviews from just about every corner of the English-speaking world. His.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/CcM7lwq via IFTTT

A spokeswoman for the museum said officials there have not been led to believe the museum has been or is the subject of any investigation. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/VPXAxS5 via IFTTT

Accusations that an image was antisemitic broke the mood at a daring festival of experiments. This year’s Documenta deserves a closer look, our critic says. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/I7mLtFv via IFTTT

Minerals like topaz, calcite and quartz are attracting collectors looking for a more affordable and less saturated market. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/CLiyEe6 via IFTTT

The Tokyo gallery A Lighthouse called Kanata is focusing on minimalism at Masterpiece London. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/XE9Vluh via IFTTT

The historical painting of George Washington had been on view at a city high school since the 1930s. But a recent push to remove it set off a nationwide debate. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/Cu9xt51 via IFTTT

A group show at CCS Bard finds a positive value to looking inward, as it celebrates Black endurance. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/Npae6dk via IFTTT

Art today is often a parade of the self. The Freer Gallery of Art presents objects by medieval artists who plunge you into the world by removing you from it. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/6YFu9Ue via IFTTT

From San Bernardino, Calif., and Aurora, Colo., to Orlando, Fla., and Newtown, Conn., sites of memory honor those killed in gun violence, and survivors. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/aJdTmAL via IFTTT

Most 21st-century Brooklyn public elementary schoolers have taken or will take a field trip to the Wyckoff House, a modest wooden cabin surrounded by tire shops and fast food outlets. The oldest building in NYC by a longshot, it was also the first structure i.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/lX6FE2N via IFTTT

Nirvana’s cultural staying power is a testament to the cross-generational magic that happened when Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselić, and Dave Grohl played together for only a handful of years in the 90s. Their influence goes far deeper than 90s nostalgia for a gr.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/0anvrbB via IFTTT

FYI, from now until Sunday, the art book publisher Taschen is running a summer sale, letting you enjoy up to 75% off of hundreds of display copies of fine arts books–some of which we’ve featured here before. Some titles include: Jean-Michel Basquiat Modern Ar.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/Plef36b via IFTTT

Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell, Altered Carbon. “Cyberpunk” is a sub-genre of science fiction featuring advanced technology set in urban, dystopian futures. Just under a year ago, these stories inspired New York-based, Hong Kong-born designer Austin Poon to.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/dWwVZuB via IFTTT

The UK generated 222.2 million tonnes of total waste in 2018. Today, we’re sharing the work of five contemporary artists – all from the Aesthetica Art Prize – who have found new ways to use discarded items and old materials, from salvaged wood to old photogra.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/f4VsJAY via IFTTT

Given his achievements in the realms of both poetry and painting, to say nothing of his compulsions to religious and philosophical inquiry, it’s tempting to call William Blake a “Renaissance man.” But he lived in the England of the mid-eighteenth century to t.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/lAjYd2S via IFTTT

Everyone knows the song, a warning from a man or woman returning to the place that will destroy them. Yet they cannot turn back. The tragedy of “House of the Rising Sun” lies in its inevitability. “The narrator seems to have lost his free will,” writes Jim Be.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/7TrcaqE via IFTTT

Back in 2017, Coursera co-founder and former Stanford computer science professor Andrew Ng launched a five-part series of courses on “Deep Learning” on the edtech platform, a series meant to “help you master Deep Learning, apply it effectively, and build a ca.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/HF8giem via IFTTT

Aesthetica takes a look at the six months ahead, spotlighting one unmissable show for each month. This selection spans the globe, from explorations of robotics in Germany to surrealist icons in New York. July | Steve McQueen, Sunshine State “My influences com.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/xqgPMr6 via IFTTT

Organizers of the international art exhibition in Germany said they would remove a work after diplomats and lawmakers said it contained antisemitic images. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/iCcOZBq via IFTTT

The art of bonsai originated in China. As subsequently refined in Japan, its techniques produce miniature trees that give aesthetic pleasure to people all around Asia and the wider world beyond. This appreciation is reflected in the couple-on-the-street inter.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/0MmURIS via IFTTT

Image by Wikimedia Commons This Spotify playlist (play below) contains music by Prince and the Grateful Dead, Weezer and Billie Holliday, Kanye West and Johannes Brahms, Hans Zimmer and David Bowie, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Radiohead. Perhaps you’d expect .. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/qidzsT8 via IFTTT

By the time the Beatles finished The White Album, it seemed they might not ever make another record together. “The group was disintegrating before my eyes,” recording engineer Geoff Emerick remembers. “It was ugly, like watching a divorce between four people... from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/9RpdkqE via IFTTT

“Today, fashion relies on linear “take, make, waste” models; often characterised by excessive overproduction, underutilisation and poor disposal. Whilst clothing production doubled between 2000 and 2015, utilisation decreased by 36 per cent during the same pe.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/HPtUE84 via IFTTT

Who was Stanislaw Lem? The Polish science fiction writer, novelist, essayist, and polymath may best be known for his 1961 novel Solaris (adapted for the screen by Andrei Tarkosvky in 1972 and again by Steven Soderbergh in 2014). Lem’s science fiction appealed.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/0yAv4Z1 via IFTTT

The brainchild of Opal Lee, the institution will be part of an economic development project aimed at revitalizing the city’s Historic Southside neighborhood. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/TwoKN3k via IFTTT

After a lengthy closure during the pandemic, the Upper East Side institution has begun the first major phase of a $200 million plan to redevelop its campus. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/QjH9rB3 via IFTTT

This month’s iteration of the Milan furniture fair brought straw baskets, paper lanterns, color-blocked carpets and more. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/pZykut5 via IFTTT

“The idea of the unrecognized genius slaving away in a garret is a deliciously foolish one,” says artist and critic Rene Ricard, as portrayed by Michael Wincott, in Julian Schnabel’s Basquiat. “We must credit the life of Vincent Van Gogh for really sending th.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/MXbDvp4 via IFTTT

DALL-E, an artificial intelligence system that generates viable-looking art in a variety of styles in response to user supplied text prompts, has been garnering a lot of interest since it debuted this spring. It has yet to be released to the general public, b.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/H0mZYTa via IFTTT

David Bowie’s fans have now been enjoying the character of Ziggy Stardust for a full five decades. That’s hardly a bad run, given that the opening track of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars announces that the end of the world will .. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/s9xUODR via IFTTT

In 1843, botanist Anna Atkins published Photographs of British Algae. It was to be the first of three volumes documenting the nation’s ferns, flowers, feathers and algae. Today, it’s considered to be the first photographic book ever printed, and is known for .. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/e1Y9Gf8 via IFTTT

Several films from Michael and Christian Blackwood, grounded in the nitty-gritty of art-making, are available to watch through June 28. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/945aRbg via IFTTT

In the first full in-person fair in its usual June slot since 2019, Art Basel saw numerous big-ticket items sell, including a $40 million Louise Bourgeois spider. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/9f5THpL via IFTTT

Going, going, gone: The original art for a Batman cover sold for $2.4 million at an online auction and joins a select group of high-priced comic book or fantasy artworks. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/lrD2szA via IFTTT

The audacious artist transforms seaborne plastics into maritime art at the Brooklyn Museum, driving home his message about their devastating environmental impact. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/cyaSU9Z via IFTTT

His work playfully critiques what White audiences want — and upends long-held ideas about what Native American art should look like. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/S9VzCuJ via IFTTT

Philip K. Dick’s multiple worlds have appeared in increasingly better editions since the author passed away in 1982. In the 21st century, respectable hardbacks and quality paper have fully replaced yellowed, pulpy pages. Maybe no edition yet is more attractiv.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/3JzC9An via IFTTT

Original vinyl records, turntables and other ephemera belonging to the hip-hop pioneer D.J. Kool Herc will be included in a sale at Christie’s. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/Sf6mUVF via IFTTT

Four artists created stories of resilience from the traumatic histories of ancestors, on view at the Ford Foundation Gallery. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/fSdFGIo via IFTTT

In its first pandemic-era edition, the Dakar Biennale, Africa’s biggest art gathering, is uneven, hectic — and full of possibility. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/75dbPeE via IFTTT

“I am creating a revolution here! I don’t want musicians, I want saboteurs, I want assassins, I want shock troops!” — Malcolm McLaren in FX’s Pistol “People are trying to make it out as a bit of a joke, but it’s not a joke. It’s not political anarchy either; .. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/LwK4FEg via IFTTT

At its peak, Battersea Power Station produced a fifth of London’s power. It supplied electricity to some of the city’s most recognisable landmarks from the 1930s to 1980s, including the Houses of Parliament and Buckingham Palace. Its world-famous chimneys – f.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/L6FAquG via IFTTT

The UK had its first London Pride protest march 50 years ago – in 1972. Today, around 1.5 million people take part annually, with the month of June now dedicated to celebrating LGBTQ+ communities all around the world. Here are five art exhibitions and events .. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/V2ARXpd via IFTTT

If you live in Kyoto or are traveling to Japan in the next two months or, who knows, maybe you have a whole lotta miles saved up on your credit card, Brian Eno has a career-spanning exhibition going on at the former welfare centre of the Kyoto Chuo Shinkin Ba.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/AyqCoFe via IFTTT

By Chloe Lizotte It’s not immediately clear who the protagonist of James Vaughan’s debut feature is. Following the credits, which play over a montage of 18th-century artist William Bradley’s watercolours of English ships docking in Sydney (the settlement’s fir.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/F7vAzVs via IFTTT

By Saffron Maeve “Soil does not come to life of its own accord.” So says Rita Ferrando in Ikebana (2021), a poetic documentary short about ecological temporality and the Japanese art of floral arrangement, which screened at IFFR earlier this year. The sediment.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/p3PqRvE via IFTTT

“You can say that Mondrian wasn’t even a visual artist,” said the curator of an exhibition celebrating the 150th anniversary of his birth. “He was a composer.” from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/c4arO8H via IFTTT

How did people in the 1900s envisage 21st century life? From Terminator (1984) to Blade Runner (1982), popular culture is littered with references to flying cars, time travel, robot assistants and artificial intelligence gone awry. Boston Globe illustrations .. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/WdzQ5lu via IFTTT

As the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture debuts, its founder hopes to inspire a renaissance in a region of California lacking public arts funding. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/9g0mUzw via IFTTT

Having been putting out issues for 92 years now, Analog Science Fiction and Fact stands as the longest continuously published magazine of its genre. It also lays claim to having developed or at least popularized that genre in the form we know it today. When i.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/82EP01W via IFTTT

 On May 22, historian John Merriman died at the age of 75. A professor at Yale since 1973, Merriman became an “early practitioner of the history ‘from the ground up, that swept academic study in the 1970s,” notes an obituary in Yale News. There, historian A.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/l3kNS9P via IFTTT

A plan to give more space to the event in a waterside heritage site has kicked off a debate over the future of one of the city’s largest public properties, and, by extension, of the city itself. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/jcKF9Hr via IFTTT

Julia Child and Fred Rogers were titans of public television, celebrated for their natural warmth, the ease with which they delivered important lessons to home viewers, and, for a certain sector of the viewing public, how readily their personalities lent them.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/cnhoLVG via IFTTT

Though not a long book, The Art of War is nevertheless an intimidating one. Composed in the China of the fifth century BC, it comes down to us as perhaps the definitive analysis of military strategy, applicable equally to East, West, antiquity, and modernity .. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/Iwx7R8a via IFTTT

Imagine if Franz Kafka were charged with picking the winning entries in The New Yorker’s weekly cartoon caption contest. The punchlines might become a little more obscure. If that idea fills you with perverse pleasure, perhaps you should toddle over to Yale U.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/Mjd8gsC via IFTTT

The restoration of a wall painting depicting an idealized Jerusalem is a reminder that the Roman monument, known best for gladiatorial combat, was a sacred Christian space for centuries. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/W3ZfCDL via IFTTT

Trends from the largest global design event, celebrating its 60th year. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/ARv7efW via IFTTT

Kate Fowle, who arrived in 2019, said she would step down in July from the Long Island City museum. She offered no reason for her abrupt departure. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/BPfbwjE via IFTTT

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates the restoration of a McKim building and unveils a garden with classical sculptures from the financier’s collection. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/fHMNOsK via IFTTT

Curators from the new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures rummaged through his Baltimore home to plan an exhibition on Waters and his cult films. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/3CSgTuX via IFTTT

As everyone knows, Japan conceded defeat in the Second World War on August 15, 1945. But as many also know, certain individual Japanese soldiers refused to surrender, each continuing to fight the war for decades in his own way. The most famous was Lieutenant .. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/XhCOrpE via IFTTT

The 2022 edition of this exhibition in Germany is curated by a leaderless collective. Things didn’t always go to plan. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/fvz7Aig via IFTTT

What happened to the missing half of the Colosseum? It may be a question about ancient Greece and Rome you were afraid to ask in school, as the title of Dr. Garret Ryan’s video above claims. Or maybe, after seeing the massive ancient ruin’s jagged profile all.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/ZKr8qCV via IFTTT

“Picture the Dream,” on display at the New-York Historical Society, shows that children, far from being mere witnesses to the civil rights movement, have played central roles in it. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/Rty35GE via IFTTT

The Nigerian-born British fashion designer examines the many ways and meanings of pattern in everything from wallpaper to ceremonial hats. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/HAc9kMB via IFTTT

City administrators hope Norway’s new National Museum will help Oslo, and the rest of the country, step out of its Scandinavian neighbors’ shadows. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/YFNuWgT via IFTTT

When the World Wide Web made its public debut in the early nineteen-nineties, it fascinated many and struck some as revolutionary, but the idea of watching a film online would still have sounded like sheer fantasy. Yet on May 23rd, 1993, reported the New York.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/2wNjYls via IFTTT

The history of Rome is, more or less, the history of the modern world. But the Roman world seemed to shrink during the Neoclassical period, an Enlightenment-era movement to purify the arts. Where Rome once encompassed a global empire, it began to inhabit a na.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/EHSQ6uM via IFTTT

Ruangrupa, an Indonesian group of collaborators, turns social experiences into art. How will they leave their mark on Documenta, which unfolds over 100 days. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/7Y4ivBZ via IFTTT

For many, family snapshots provide a first introduction to photography – whether that’s leafing through the faded pages of a printed album or browsing a digital folder on a smartphone. Lens-based artists, from Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) to Sally Mann .. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/NtQciK7 via IFTTT

Ellen V. Futter, who in 1993 became the first woman to head a major New York City-based museum, will leave when the Gilder Center opens next year. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/lH2Df9W via IFTTT

Mónica Ramírez-Montagut will take over in July. The museum’s last director, Kelly Taxter, departed less than a year into the role. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/fylTBeK via IFTTT

The ceramic artist Theaster Gates says his “Black Chapel” in London’s Kensington Gardens is about optimism and openness, even as it pays tribute to his late father. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/I7ci9hA via IFTTT

Japan’s T-shaped unisex garment cut from a single bolt of silk isn’t a symbol or a relic. At the Met, it’s the vibrant feature of an international fashion conversation. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/IpCQ8sR via IFTTT

By any measure, David Bowie was a superstar. He first rose to fame in the nineteen-seventies, a process galvanized by his creation and assumption of the rocker-from-Mars persona Ziggy Stardust. In the following decade came Let’s Dance, on the back of which he.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/2hQmkns via IFTTT

In an 2018 essay for The New Yorker, author Zadie Smith describes Deana Lawson’s (b. 1979) photography as “prelapsarian” – as though existing in a time before the Fall, when, in Christianity, the first man and woman lost their innocence and were cast out from.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/GT9JuIN via IFTTT

Some founders rest on their laurels, build industries around themselves like a cocoon, and never escape or outgrow the big achievement that made their name. Some, like Dave Smith — the so-called “father of MIDI,” and one of the most innovative synthesizer pio.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/9Khm4Cn via IFTTT

“I never knew how good our songs were until I heard Ella Fitzgerald sing them.” — Ira Gershwin No one ever gave Ella Fitzgerald faint praise. We could point to cuts from nearly any one of her over 200 albums as evidence for why she is the undisputed “Queen of.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/pIE1Yzb via IFTTT

The Venetian island, famous for its glass, has long been on the wane, but 700 years of expertise is a terrible thing to squander. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/bXj8q0r via IFTTT

Two textile companies — from Japan and Colombia — are making their first appearance at the center of the design world. Here are their stories. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/xig90oc via IFTTT

The British designer Lee Broom shared how he turned a passion for postwar architecture into Divine Inspiration. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/NnflzJZ via IFTTT

It was supposed to happen three years ago, but the pandemic had other ideas. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/aSwACxo via IFTTT

The Milan Furniture Fair recently appointed its first female president, who brings a theatrical touch. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/UtXNn8b via IFTTT

There’s never been a bad time for a Kate Bush revival. Those who lived through the 1980s may always associate her biggest songs with their memories. Fans who only know the 80s by way of Netflix know it by proxy and don’t suffer from nostalgia. But whatever Ka.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/BDKymEp via IFTTT

Since the 1920s, a series of towering white letters have stood above Los Angeles. The Hollywood Sign – with its underlying messages of ambition, glamour and success – is one of the most famous in the world. Other notable waypoints can be found in Las Vegas, a.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/lyUFNnp via IFTTT

Over the nearly four decades he acted in motion pictures, Ray Liotta worked with auteurs from Jonathan Demme to Martin Scorsese to Noah Baumbach — and also appeared in the likes of Operation Dumbo Drop, and Muppets from Space, and Street Kings 2: Motor City. .. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/l4NbYJP via IFTTT

Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night is one of the most popular and easily recognized paintings on earth. If you haven’t seen it person, you’ve probably seen it reproduced on a postcard, a tote bag, or a t-shirt. Musician Sheldon Clarke was a Starry Night virg.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/svr9Foc via IFTTT

“Lou Reed: Caught Between the Twisted Stars” offers glimpses of a life in rock ’n’ roll — from doo-wop to “Metal Machine Music” — and tracks the evolution of one of music’s polarizing legends. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/9jrGdom via IFTTT

Brussels-based neurodiverse abstract expressionist Cecile Lobert addresses consciousness in its raw form. Nonverbal and an outsider to conventional development, her impromptu style is best known for its emancipation from normative methods – challenging viewer.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/hDcnA1a via IFTTT

Image by Lynn Gilbert, via Wikimedia Commons “The times we live in are indeed alarming. It is a time of the most appalling escalation of violence — violence to the environment, both ‘nature’ and ‘culture’; violence to all living beings.” But “it is also a tim.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/X90Y5g6 via IFTTT

Are you one of the hundreds of thousands who’ve gotten themselves hooked on Wordle, the free online game that gives players six chances to guess a five-letter word of the day? Its popularity has spawned a host of imitators, including Quordle, Crosswordle, Abs.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/Llmq5Ro via IFTTT

If you follow music news, or just scan entertainment headlines, you might have noticed that a few weeks after his death, beloved Foo Fighters’ drummer Taylor Hawkins’ final days became a controversial subject. According to a Rolling Stone article quoting Pear.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/KrbADjR via IFTTT

Thailand’s colour-drenched architectural landscapes are the subject of Wuthipol Ujathammarat’s Urban Mess series. Taken in Bangkok, the vibrant images present the city’s floodlights, security cameras and fire escapes as never before. Bright sunlit buildings p.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/Wtuxilq via IFTTT

In New York City, he helped engineer behind-the-scenes rescues of monuments, murals and museums and the preservation of Times Square’s dazzling lights. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/gCaDAPc via IFTTT

Advice from an expert about choosing outdoor fabrics, growing bamboo, settling on ceiling fans and finding stylish bird feeders. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/OM5r0dU via IFTTT

When Marco Pasanella inherited his father’s estate in Tuscany, he and his wife sought to make it theirs, while preserving the spirit of the past. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/ZEQF6Kr via IFTTT

New books on river scavenging, Dumbarton Oaks, eccentric English landscapes and a place called Lotusland. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/T8zh7Ee via IFTTT

To transform his Williamsburg townhouse into a child’s pleasure palace, an architect consulted his own early memories (treehouses were involved). from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/BtyrW1C via IFTTT