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by ArtForum - about 36 minutes
Between 1986 and 1992, philosopher and media theorist Vilém Flusser contributed the column “Curies’ Children” to Artforum, writing short meditations on the rise of digital media and its implications for the transmission of meaning in fine arts and mass media alike. This week, read the second installment of Flusser’s column, “What Comes After Z.,” an essay […]
by Hyperallergic - about 48 minutes
Betye Saar with Black dolls from her collection, 2025 (photo Tracye Saar-Cavanaugh, courtesy the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California)Betye Saar has been accumulating ephemera — taxidermied animals, cages, computer parts, and more — throughout her life. Since the 1970s, she has crafted these found objects into assemblage artworks that often subvert racist artifacts and images, beginning with her famed sculpture “The Liberation of Aunt Jemima” (1972). “I knew I could not avoid the pain, so it became part of my art,” she said in 1973, as quoted in the monograph Black Doll Blues. Today, her studio is filled to the brim with objects and ephemera gathered from nature, on her...
by Designboom - about 1 hour
geometric volumes and terrain form Sofia pavilion in Campo Belo
 
In Campo Belo, São Paulo, a 380-square-meter experimental pavilion designed by architect Leonardo Zanatta and developed by Nortis Inc. uses the site’s natural level changes to create a visually striking project with minimal earthwork. ‘This gives the ensemble a certain controlled monumentality. It is a building that becomes smaller in relation to the tall residential towers around it, yet asserts a strong visual presence for those passing by the street or moving through the project’s gardens,’ says Zanatta.
 
Pavilhão Sofia is the second in a series of temporary structures developed in different neighborhoods and urban contexts...
by Designboom - about 3 hours
apple and artist bailey hikawa relaunch accessible phone case
 
Apple has expanded the release of the Hikawa Grip & Stand for iPhone, an accessibility focused MagSafe accessory designed by Los Angeles artist and industrial designer Bailey Hikawa to support users with limited grip strength, dexterity, and mobility. Originally launched in limited quantities in 2025, the device sold out immediately and is now available more broadly through Apple’s online store following continued demand and renewed attention around inclusive product design.
 
Rather than functioning as a typical phone grip, the Hikawa Grip & Stand rethinks how the smartphone physically interacts with the hand. Its enlarged sculptural form...
by Parterre - about 3 hours
Brigitte Fassbaender’s acid-laced production of La finta giardiniera leans into the absurdities of Mozart’s early dramma giocoso.
by booooooom - about 3 hours
Angelo Dolojan
it’s all very interesting what is happening by Angelo Dolojan is a zine featuring drawings created over the course of a year. The work weaves together observation, memory, dreams, documentation, and manifestation into a continuous visual exploration.
 
 
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by Designboom - about 5 hours
NEW EUROPEAN BAUHAUS FOSTERS INCLUSIVE COMMON SPACES
 
The third edition of the New European Bauhaus festival takes place from 9-13 June, at Brussels Parc du Cinquantenaire, under the theme ‘Life. Spaces. Buildings’. The festival, returning every two years, connects architects and designers from Europe and beyond to show how the built environment can foster community, strengthen resilience, and boost competitiveness to drive the clean transition. For the 2026 edition, activities focusing on democratic engagement explore affordable housing as a foundation for inclusive societies, showing practical examples of how citizens can be involved in shaping their communities.
New European Bauhaus festival returns...
by Parterre - about 6 hours
Tebaldi, at La scala, in one of her nights of glory, where the voice poured out effortlessly, singing with utter conviction, and no soprano ever appealed to God more fervently.
by Parterre - about 6 hours
My contribution this month honors the great Sherrill Milnes in his electrifying performance of Iago's credo (1979, Met).
by Hyperallergic - about 6 hours
In January 2024, news about Brent Sikkema's brutal murder in Brazil shocked and horrified the art community. Last week, a federal jury found his estranged husband, Daniel Sikkema, guilty of arranging the murder. Our senior editor Valentina Di Liscia has the details of this grim story.Also today, a peek into the ideas brewing among the latest crop of MFA students at Columbia University, the secret life of Anni Albers, and Karla Knight’s cosmic paintings. —Hakim Bishara, editor-in-chief Husband Found Guilty of Scheming Murder of Art Dealer Brent Sikkema A federal jury has found Daniel Sikkema guilty for his role in the murder-for-hire of his estranged husband, the New York art dealer Brent Sikkema. The...
by Designboom - about 7 hours
Inside the Bloom explores biophilic retail design
 
Inside the Bloom is an immersive biophilic retail concept that explores the emotional connection between nature, growth, and human perception. Rather than functioning as a traditional store, the project by Sinchugova Antonina creates a spatial experience where visitors become participants in a continuous process of transformation. Inspired by the quiet logic of natural ecosystems, the environment encourages slowing down, observation, and sensory immersion. The planning strategy avoids rigid boundaries and instead creates fluid transitions between different spatial atmospheres. Soft gradients of light, reflective surfaces, organic textures, and integrated...
by ArtNews - about 7 hours
Spectacle in all its many forms is the big theme of the summer season, when big, glitzy projects will take over museums across the globe. Laure Prouvost has been given a wide playing field for a show about quantum physics at Paris’s Grand Palais, while Carsten Höller is planning a vast exhibition for Beijing’s UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, the details of which he has largely kept secret. Meanwhile, Tomás Saraceno will bring his monumental sculptures to Munich’s Haus der Kunst; a permanent land artwork by him is also going on view in his native Argentina. He is hardly the only artist considering the land and all the histories embedded within it. Carolina Caycedo is having a show at the Museu de Arte...
by Juliet - about 8 hours
“Qui pro quo” è una locuzione che segnala un’incomprensione o un malinteso, in sostanza un evento singolare che trae in inganno una delle parti coinvolte nella linea retta del discorso. Il “qui pro quo” costituisce, di conseguenza, un punto di flesso, una piega improvvisa verso direzioni inattese. È questa una delle prime sensazioni che si ricavano alla vista delle opere di Anna de Castro Barbosa attualmente esposte a FRENCH PLACE. La sua ricerca si sviluppa tra scultura e installazione e riflette su temi quali la percezione, la frammentazione e l’instabilità delle forme.
Anna de Castro Barbosa, “Il Quiproquo”, installation view, ph Francesco Paleari, courtesy of FRENCH PLACE, Milano
La...
by Designboom - about 8 hours
Y-zipper: a forgotten patent returns nearly 40 years later
 
MIT researchers revive a forgotten 1980s zipper concept with Y-zipper, a three-sided 3D printed fastening system that shifts between soft and rigid states through a single sliding motion. Developed at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the project rethinks the everyday zipper as a structural mechanism capable of assembling tents, robotic limbs, wearable supports, and kinetic installations on demand.
 
The project traces back to an unrealized 1985 patent by MIT professor William Freeman, who originally imagined a triangular zipper that could transform flexible objects into rigid structures. At the time, fabrication...
by Aesthetic - about 9 hours
The Prix Pictet Award is one of the most prestigious prizes in the art world. Founded in 2008, it spotlights the artists who are harnessing the power of photography to draw global attention to critical sustainability issues. The latest instalment, Storm, represents both a natural phenomenon and a metaphor for the unseen and relentless forces that shape our world today. The theme speaks to the growing volatility of our environmental, socioeconomic and political landscapes, each seemingly on the brink of crisis. The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College in Chicago, presents this award’s 11th edition, marking its US debut. Karen Irvine, Chief Curator of MoCP, says: ““It is a privilege to...
by The Art Newspaper - about 9 hours
Allegations of looting and lack of transparency plague the contested galleon that sank in 1708 laden with gold, silver and emeralds
by Hyperallergic - about 9 hours
Installation view of SEA WORLD VENICE, Florentina Holzinger's presentation at the Austrian pavilion of the 2026 Venice Biennale (all photos Eurídice Arratia/Hyperallergic)VENICE — Unless you were attending a silent retreat the past few weeks, you already know that no other Venice Biennale in recent history has gotten off to a more fraught start than this year’s. In May 2025, its artistic director, Koyo Kouoh, passed away. Then there were canceled pavilions, boycotts protesting Israel and Russia’s participation, and the jury’s resignation. Kouoh’s summons to take a deep breath and exhale was, to say the least, a challenging request.In the midst of this upheaval, two national pavilions in the...
by artandcakela - about 16 hours
By Barbara Patterson Zarina Van Ranzow's debut solo exhibition featuring work from her ongoing series Let it Bleed and Music for Lovers opened on May 8 at STONE/AGE Studios in East Los Angeles. Drawing from archival photographs of the artist's family and portraits of a variety of musicians, the series adapts photographic content into oil and airbrush paintings that pick up where the camera leaves off. Diffusing the harsh, resolute forms that photography's understanding of the subject...
by Parterre - sunday at 15:00
Tired of Turandot? "The Dancing Goddess” at the China Institute Gallery gives us a glimpse at a real Peking Opera queen.
by Aesthetic - sunday at 14:00
For as long as humans have been making art, they have looked to celestial bodies for inspiration. The oldest example is the Nebra Sky Disk, believed to be 3,600 years old, dating from the Bronze Age. It is the world’s oldest map of the stars. Across centuries, artists have used the sun and the moon to explore power, divinity and emotion, from Egyptian recreations of the sun as the god Ra to Medieval Christian artists using sunlight to represent divine order. Romantic painters took the moon as the ultimate symbol of the sublime, such as in Caspar David Friedrich’s Two Men Contemplating the Moon (1825), whilst later Impressionists used the sun to capture fleeting moments, most famously in Claude...
by Parterre - sunday at 12:00
Much as I love the Abbado Deutsche Grammophon studio set, this 1980 San Francisco Opera live Simon Boccanegra under Lamberto Gardelli has an emotional punch.
by Juliet - sunday at 11:37
Il lavoro di Xiyan Chen si colloca in un territorio di frontiera in cui i sistemi computazionali smettono di essere strumenti e cominciano a comportarsi come organismi. Attraverso installazioni video e ambienti generativi, l’artista esplora la logica ricorsiva condivisa dai processi biologici e da quelli digitali. Il codice, nella sua pratica, non rappresenta la natura: la ripete, ne riproduce la struttura profonda attraverso le stesse regole di ramificazione, proliferazione e collasso che governano sistemi viventi. Eternal Genesis: Reversal of Duality 2.0 è uno degli esiti più compiuti di questa ricerca. A prima vista, il lavoro appare scarno: asterischi, & commerciali e segni presenziano nello schermo...
by hifructose - sunday at 2:51
In Perfectly Normal—the exhibition from Dustin Myers that ran at Los Angeles gallery Thinkspace Projects in November 2023—the Southern California artist presented a collection of young characters painted in oils. Posed in the awkward-yet-endearing postures associated with school photographs, the characters’ exaggerated facial features reveal a bevy of emotions. Some are ready for their close-up. […]
The post Dustin Myers is Perfectly Normal first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.
by hifructose - sunday at 2:31
“I have a passion for product design; most of the motifs I draw are related to consumer products,” says Shohei Ochiai. The Tokyo-based artist studied at Tama Art University, where he graduated about a decade ago, and is an admirer of the designs of consumer product company Braun, Memphis Group founder Ettore Sottsass, and famed […]
The post SHOHEI Ochiai Flattens consumer products into Surrealistic Childlike paintings first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.
by ArtNews - sunday at 2:29
The upcoming presentation of the Bayeux Tapestry, a 230-foot-long embroidered cloth depicting the Norman invasion of 1066, figures to be the blockbuster exhibition of the year for the British Museum. The institution is pricing tickets like it is. On Thursday, the museum said that tickets to see the tapestry, which goes on view September 10 through July 11, 2027, will cost £33 for a standard adult ticket, or about $45. That’s the high end, for “peak” times. During off-peak times, i.e. non-holiday, non summer weekdays until 5:10 p.m., an adult ticket will cost £27. Tickets for Students and disabled visitors are a flat £25. All tickets get you a 40-minute visit with the tapestry. The first two weeks of...
by hifructose - sunday at 2:11
ABOVE: Photo of Martha Rich by Andrea Cipriani Mecchi Any artist will tell you one of the greatest gifts they ever earned was the moment they found their style—their singular take on subject, creation, and process. But much harder earned is the gift of confidence, that ability to continue in one’s style, despite all the […]
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by hifructose - sunday at 1:52
Chet Zar is best known for painting monsters, but over the past few years, flowers have been creeping to the center of his canvases. Zar’s blooms—hibiscus, stargazers, and sunflowers amongst them—are so vibrant that you can instantly imagine their fragrance. Their vivid colors and pert petals might stand in contrast to the unsettling, sometimes terrifying, […]
The post Life & Death: The Skull Flower Paintings of Dark Artist Chet Zar first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.
by ArtNews - saturday at 21:30
The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust released a statement on Saturday slamming the recent decision by New York’s Danziger Gallery to offer an AI-generated artwork referencing the famed photographer’s work at the 2026 edition of the AIPAD Photography Show in April. The artwork, which still appears on Danziger’s website, does not contain a title but is headlined A.I. GENERATED, From the prompt: Make a realistic color version of Ansel Adams’ iconic “Moonrise Over Hernandez”. It is listed as printed by master printer Esteban Mauchi. Danziger offered the piece in its booth at the fair—which ran from April 22 to April 26—alongside work by Seydou Keïta, Hoda Afshar, and Matthew Porter, among...
by Aesthetic - saturday at 14:00
How do we face worsening ecological change with anything other than despair? This is the question at the heart of Vancouver Art Gallery’s latest exhibition. Future Geographies: Art in the Century of Climate Change is the first major show in Canada to examine the intersection of contemporary art and climate change on a global scale. As Curator at Large Eva Respini says: “Artists are not scientists, nor are they journalists, but they have a role to play in asking questions about our future on this planet. In this century shaped by climate change, that act of imagining is both a necessity and a form of resistance.” Research by the World Health Organisation shows that 3.6 billion people already live in...
by Hyperallergic - saturday at 12:00
I skipped the New York art fairs this season. Went to none, not even the so-called "anti-fair" fairs. It was a choice, a kind of detox. And guess what? I don't feel like I missed anything. Soon after, a spate of auctions culminated in the record-breaking sale of a Jackson Pollock for $181 million at Christie's. I wasn't there either, and I had 181 million reasons to not care.Instead, I kept thinking of pioneering performance artist Linda Montano, who's now 84. She invited our contributor Taliesin Thomas into her home-shrine in Upstate NY, welcoming her in a devotional chicken costume. God bless "Chicken Linda." I urge you to read this profile.I was also thinking about Gabrielle...
by Juliet - saturday at 10:28
“Contaminazioni della Storia”, bipersonale di Fulvio Dot e Sandra Zeugna in corso alla Galleria d’arte contemporanea di Monfalcone, mette a confronto due artisti approdati nel corso delle loro carriere a ricerche visivamente antitetiche.
Fulvio Dot, “Game over”, 2025, tecnica mista e ferro su tela, 80×80 cm, courtesy dell’artista
Fulvio Dot lavora per sedimentazione e innesto: i suoi strati di colle, malte, stucchi e teli militari costruiscono palinsesti urbani in cui la Venezia lagunare si incrocia con segnali digitali, icone dei social media, codici binari, errori di sistema. La città è memoria che si corrode e dato che si accumula; la superficie pittorica è una scheda madre in cui il passato...
by Aesthetic - saturday at 9:00
Zineb Sedira has long occupied a singular position within contemporary art – an artist whose practice moves fluidly between film, photography, installation and performance to interrogate the fragile architecture of memory, migration and postcolonial identity. Born in Paris to Algerian parents and later establishing herself in London, Sedira has spent decades tracing the emotional residue left by geopolitical rupture, often focusing on the afterlives of displacement and the silences embedded within official histories. Her installations are marked by a cinematic sensibility that privileges atmosphere as much as narrative, creating spaces where archives become living organisms and spectators become participants...
by The Art Newspaper - friday at 23:26
The previously popular bipartisan legislation was undone by Republican additions about “biological women” and allowing Trump to override its location on the National Mall
by The Art Newspaper - friday at 23:22
The artist’s new large-scale sculptures in Madison Square Park pay homage to the island’s diaspora and its most beloved figures
by Hyperallergic - friday at 23:18
Brent Sikkema (photo courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Company)A federal jury has found Daniel Sikkema guilty for his role in the murder-for-hire of his estranged husband, the New York art dealer Brent Sikkema.The 75-year-old gallerist was stabbed 18 times in his Rio de Janeiro townhouse in the early hours of January 14, 2024, in a brutal crime that shocked the art world and left Sikkema's loved ones searching for answers. The main suspect was soon identified as Alejandro Triana Prevez, a Cuban security guard and delivery driver living in Brazil who claimed that he had been contracted by Daniel Sikkema to commit the crime. He was arrested by Brazilian law enforcement four days after the incident. Prevez remains...
by ArtNews - friday at 22:29
English Heritage, a charity that manages over 400 historic sites across England, unveiled their reconstruction of a 4,500-year-old building at Stonehenge on Friday. The $1.34 million, 23-foot-high Kusuma Neolithic Hall, which will open this summer, aims to help visitors imagine the lives of Stonehenge’s prehistoric builders. The hall is based on the footprint of a long-vanished building at the nearby Neolithic archaeological site Durrington Walls and was built over nine months by more than 100 volunteers. Under the guidance of award-winning experimental archaeologist Luke Winter, the volunteers used only prehistoric tools, including stone axes, and locally sourced materials such as reed thatch, pine timbers,...
by ArtNews - friday at 22:29
Daniel Sikkema, the estranged husband of murdered New York art dealer Brent Sikkema, was found guilty Friday in a Manhattan federal court, according to the Wall Street Journal. Daniel Sikkema faced charges tied to a murder-for-hire plot that prosecutors said led to the dealer’s killing at his vacation home in Rio de Janeiro in 2024.  The case has gripped the art world since Brent Sikkema, the founder of the Chelsea gallery then known as Sikkema Jenkins & Co., was found stabbed to death in Brazil at age 75. Prosecutors argued that Daniel Sikkema orchestrated the killing from New York amid a bitter divorce and custody dispute involving the couple’s son. Federal prosecutors accused Daniel Sikkema of...
by ArtForum - friday at 21:40
Legislation aimed at advancing the construction of the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum in Washington, DC, failed in the House on May 21 after Democrats rejected changes added to the bill by Republicans in March, the New York Times reports. According to Politico, the bill, presented by Republican Representative Nicole Malliotakis, of New York, was […]
by ArtForum - friday at 20:07
Unionized staffers at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, have demanded that the institution remove top funder Les Wexner’s name from its moniker following the discovery of his close ties to the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. According to a May 21 post to their Instagram, Wexner Workers United (WWU), under the […]
by ArtForum - friday at 20:04
Manuel Segade, the director of Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Spain’s national museum of 20th century art, has been threatened by lawmakers with removal from his post if he fails to complete an inventory of the museum’s collection by December 31st of this year, ARTnews reports.  Following his appointment in 2023, Segade has […]
by The Art Newspaper - friday at 20:03
Combined, the prizes will provide as much as $113,200 for acquisitions at the fair
by archaeology - friday at 20:00
GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS—According to a statement released by Antiquity, analysis of pigeon bones from the site of Hala Sultan Tekke, a harbor city on the island of Cyprus, suggests that the birds (Columba livia) were semidomesticated as early as 1400 B.C. This is about 1,000 years earlier than was previously thought based on the remains of domesticated pigeons unearthed in Greece. Pigeons are known to have provided companionship, meat, and fertilizer. “We knew that pigeons must have become domesticated somewhere in the Middle East or Eastern Mediterranean, based mostly on the written record from Egypt, but we had no idea when or how," said Anderson Carter of the University of Groningen. Isotope analysis...
by archaeology - friday at 19:30
Garments preserved in whalers' burials from the site of Likneset in Norway's Svalbard archipelago SVALBARD, NORWAY—The remains of 20 whalers have been uncovered in a High Arctic cemetery damaged by rapid warming by Lise Loktu of the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research and Elin Therese Brødholt of Oslo University Hospital, according to a Live Science report. The cemetery—known as Likneset, Norwegian for “Corpse Point”—is located on an island in the Svalbard archipelago between the North Pole and the northern coast of Norway. “Early modern Arctic whaling was among Europe’s first large-scale extractive industries, and the labor was highly manual,” Loktu said. The condition of the...
by ArtForum - friday at 19:28
A new residency exclusively meant for Indigenous artists working with neon for the first time is launching as the result of a collaboration between the Walker Youngbird Foundation, a Native-led nonprofit supporting Indigenous artists, and Lite Brite Neon Studio, a neon fabrication workshop based in Kingston, New York. “I have always been fascinated with light […]
by The Art Newspaper - friday at 19:05
Works by famed Canadian figures including Emily Carr, Tom Thomson, Jean Paul Riopelle and Takao Tanabe also notched major results
by archaeology - friday at 19:00
VANCOUVER, CANADA—Analysis of isotope levels in teeth from more than 100 people who lived between 9,500 and 200 years ago in Kenya and Tanzania suggests that people continued to fish, hunt wild game, and collect plants for food for more than 1,000 years after they began keeping livestock, according to a statement released by the University of British Columbia. Some 5,000 years ago, the variety of the diet consumed by the earliest herders still resembled that of hunter-gatherers, explained Kendra Chritz of the University of British Columbia. “It’s clear that fisher-foragers followed dietary strategies that were situationally specific, or even personalized,” explained Elisabeth Hildebrand of Stony Brook...
by Thisiscolossal - friday at 17:07
Photography is often touted as the most democratic and accessible medium in the visual arts. Today, the majority of us carry phones equipped with powerful, easy-to-use cameras that capture our lives and the world around us, transforming each of us into a documentarian at a moment’s notice. This omnipresence shapes our understanding of art and culture and often serves as a critical tool for political and social change. The same is true for a forthcoming exhibition at the Mississippi Museum of Art. Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955-1985 transports viewers to the mid-20th century, when the medium rose to prominence not only for artists but also for organizers, activists, and cultural icons....
by booooooom - friday at 15:00
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by Aesthetic - friday at 13:24
You saw them here first. This summer, we spotlight the exciting new talent emerging from the UK’s leading art schools. Graduate shows are where major careers begin, offering an early glimpse of the artists and makers set to shape the future of contemporary visual culture. They also demonstrate the importance of arts education, demonstrating how creativity influences every aspect of the world around us. Discover how the class of 2026 is responding to the defining issues of our time across a wide range of disciplines. Arts University Plymouth: Graduate Shows 2026 | 21 May – 30 July In Plymouth, this season is dedicated to propelling the designers and makers of tomorrow into the creative industries. The...
by Juliet - friday at 6:42
Era da tempo che l’inaugurazione della Biennale Arte non suscitava così tanto clamore. La 61. Esposizione Internazionale ha cominciato a far parlare di sé a partire dalle polemiche con cui è stata accolta la pubblicazione dell’elenco degli artisti invitati dalla curatrice Koyo Kouoh, scomparsa a maggio 2025, per la precisa ed escludente polarizzazione geografica di cui è espressione. Al dibattito sulla geopolitica artistica configurata dalla ricognizione, seppure non sappiamo fino a che punto compiuta, della potente critica d’arte camerunese naturalizzata svizzera si sono sovrapposte, nelle settimane precedenti l’apertura, ancora più infuocate diatribe in cui l’arte supposta essere al centro...
by Thisiscolossal - thursday at 23:10
Artists iterating on a seemingly mundane object is one of our favorite exhibition concepts. Vintage envelopes, coasters, and matchboxes are just a fraction of the items galleries have offered as unique canvases for small works, and now, we can add nighlights to that list. On view through June 26, DUDD LITE is a collaboration between the design collective Dudd Haus and the gallery The Future Perfect. Curated through an open call that garnered nearly 400 submissions, the playful exhibition presents more than 130 artist-designed nightlights made from stained glass, wood, seashells, ceramic, cotton, and more. The small works hover between sculpture and functional object, each reflecting a distinctive sensibility...
by archaeology - thursday at 20:00
LISBON, PORTUGAL—According to a Phys.org report, a nineteenth-century dental bridge resembling three U-shaped teeth was unearthed at the site of a hospital cemetery in northwestern Portugal. The device likely served an aesthetic purpose rather than a functional one, according to Steffi Vassallo of the University of Lisbon. The bridge was found with the remains of an adult woman dated to between 1801 and 1831. Large sections of her face and lower jaw were missing, but the remains indicate that the woman was missing many teeth from her upper jaw at the time of her death. These empty tooth sockets had begun to heal and close, however. Only two of the woman’s own teeth were recovered from the burial....
by archaeology - thursday at 19:30
Burial, Tula, Mexico IGNACIO ZARAGOZA, MEXICO—According to the Greek Reporter, eight burials and 47 ceramic vessels were found in a tomb at Tula, an archaeological zone in central-eastern Mexico, during an investigation conducted by researchers from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History in advance of the Mexico City–Queretaro Passenger Train construction project. Archaeologist Víctor Heredia Guillen said that five shaft-like tombs and other burials were uncovered at a possible residential complex dated to between A.D. 225 and 550. The eight burials were discovered in a shaft tomb on the north side of a residential room. Six of the bodies had been placed in a seated position with...
by Thisiscolossal - thursday at 16:58
Every year, there are two major migration events. Birds, insects, fish, and many mammals head north in the spring to nest and breed and return south in the winter to feed and raise their young. Using BirdCast, a tool that’s active seasonally and allows anyone to see bird migration “heat maps” around the U.S., ornithologists tracked a record-breaking one billion birds migrating on a single October night in 2023 (last year, that number reached 1.2 billion). But on the night spanning October 4 to 5, something else really big happened: nearly 1,000 birds died in Chicago after hitting a single building. McCormick Place Lakeside Center is situated along the Lake Michigan shoreline, set apart from other...
by Juliet - thursday at 5:00
Ospitata negli spazi della Collezione Maramotti, “Cannon Fodder” segna la prima personale di Giuditta Branconi (classe 1998) in un’istituzione d’arte. La mostra si configura come un’esplicita e lucida dissertazione sul presente, inteso come un quotidiano opprimente in cui le dinamiche emotive e politiche si intrecciano in modo inestricabile. È lo stesso titolo, traducibile letteralmente come “carne da cannone”, a esplicitare la dichiarazione d’intenti dell’artista: un riferimento diretto e urticante a quei corpi sacrificabili, a quella materia biologica e sociale destinata a essere sistematicamente consumata da un macrosistema alienante. Da questa premessa si sviluppa una pittura che non è...