Actor Michael J. Fox Welcomes His Adorable Pup Named Blue

 

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With her exhibition Merunt: In the house of spirits, artist and environmentalist Luca Pizzani invites us to take part in a ritual for remembering and recovering the knowledge of how to coexist with

Dont beat yourself up about it

You did some weird things when you were growing up and you didnt realize it was actually weird until you got older, right?

We all have at least one example of that!

And these 12 folks were nice enough to share theirs

See if your weird habits measured up to these!

1. Chirp it.

Never heard that one before.

My mom always referred to arming the car alarm as chirping. Like dont forget to chirp the car. Ive been informed this has never been said before by anyone else.

average elon musk hater (@chaotic_teacher) September 17, 2022

2. I would be perplexed, too.

Some strange things going on here

This reminds me of a friend who upon visiting his gfs family discovered they had a sibling tradition to smash chocolate marshmallow cakes on each others foresheads before picking off the broken chocolate. He was utterly perplexed

Jennifer Oldfield (@MsJenOO) September 16, 2022

3. Not gonna be easy this time

Take no prisoners!

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In the exhibition Cut from Blue Sky, Talya Feldman mines the thorny histories of racist violence in Germany and mass shootings in the United States. Her interest in these subjects grew out of personal

Switzerland and Oman is celebrating its 50^th anniversary of bilateral relations, Switzerland is committed to closer bilateral cooperation in the field of sustainability. As part of the celebration, the Swiss Embassy in Oman invited the Swiss-French graffiti artist Saype to create a giant fresco in Oman. The work of over 10,000 m2 of eco-friendly paint was created in the countrys largest solar power plant in Ibri and symbolises cooperation on a sustainable world for future generations.

The artwork in Oman was made on March 11th at the Ibri solar farm, Oman. Energy management is certainly one of the major challenges of our ever-accelerating world. Our contemporary civilization was built on fossil fuels, but today we must look to the future and seek sustainable solutions to keep the earth habitable. It is with the major environmental issues of our time in mind that I chose to paint in one of the largest solar farms in the Middle East (11,3 km). Being aware that the solution centres around a complex energy mix and in a form of sobriety, I chose to paint this child playing with the magic of solar energy. Looking towards the horizon, he symbolizes the renewal of a civilization that must now reinvent itself to continue to grow without destroying the planet.

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Create Colorful Hoop Art When You Use These Embroidery and Painting Supplies

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Embroidery is a craft thats ripe with creative possibilities. One important thing to know about it is that you dont have to use only thread in your piece. Mixed media embroidery, in which you employ paint or other materials, is a deeply satisfying practice. Its one that Maria Zamyatina knows well. The artist uses watercolor paint, in addition to thread, to create colorful scenes inspired by her travels. She even shows you how in her online class called Mixed Media Thread Painting: Learn to Embroider Your Travel Memories.

Zamyatinas class is geared toward folks who have some experience with embroidery, specifically the basic stitches. But beyond that knowledge, she demonstrates sketching for embroidery and how to transfer a pattern before showing you how to tackle your project down to the final details.

To successfully complete the course, youll need the right supplies. If youve stitched before, you might have some of them on hand. This includes embroidery needles, a nine-inch embroidery hoop, scissors, and cotton fabric. Additionally, youll want to have craft glue, a heat-erasable pen, paint (watercolor, acrylic, or gouache), and paint brushes on hand.

So, grab your tools and enroll in Mixed Media Thread Painting: Learn to Embroider Your Travel Memories to get started. Its only available through My Moder...

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An updated mural from the anonymous Italian street artist Blu (previously) sinks its teeth into capitalistic greed and natures unparalleled capability for destruction.

Originally painted in 2009 following the Spanish financial crisis of 2008, the first mural likened the insatiable capitalist appetite to that of the aggressive fish, which stretched across a 25-meter section of wall at the intersection of Barcelonas Carrer del Santuari and Carrer de la Gran Vista. Crews painted over the work in 2021 as part of a city project, and after hearing that neighbors wanted the piece back, Blu painted a second iteration earlier this year.

Retaining the bank-note shark of the 2009 work, the 2023 version adds an arsenal of nuclear missiles and warplanes to the central creature. The expansive mural continues to unfold like an exquisite corpse of global maladies with raging forest fires and floods encroaching on civilization, leaving mass chaos and ruin in their wake.

See the full mural here, and follow Blus latest projects on Instagram.

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The word connoisseur is not an attractive one, writes Jancis Robinson in her memoir Tasting Pleasure: Confessions of a Wine Lover. It smacks of exclusivity, preciousness and elitism. Indeed, connoisseurship is not a necessary state for wine appreciation. It is perfectly possible to enjoy wine enormously without really understanding it. But a connoisseur sees each individual wine in its historical, geographical and sociological context and is truly sensitive to its possibilities. Those who drink wine too carelessly or too stringently, those who will not meet a wine halfway, and who consistently ignore the story each wine has to tell, deprive themselves of a large part of the potential pleasure associated with each bottle.

How best to experience that pleasure or rather, how best to attain the state of connoisseurship that makes it accessible in the first place? One could do worse than starting with the works of Robinson herself, whos not just one of the most respected wine writers alive today, but also onetime supervisor of the luxury wine selection on British Airways Concorde and advisor for the wine cellar of the late Queen Elizabeth II.

I would totally understand parents getting worked up about an adult leaving their kids unattended in a swimming pool

But what if the kids are 9 and 13-years-old?

Hmmmm

Check out this story from Reddits Am I the A**hole? page and see if you think this woman was out of line.

AITA for leaving my partners kids (9 and 13) unattended in a hotel pool to go the bathroom?

First time travelling with my partner (49M) and his two boys, 9 and 13.

I get along great with the boys. Theyre awesome, smart, creative, funny kids. They can also be jerks, but thats normal. Im on the verge of becoming an official step mom, which would be a big step for all of us.. lately Ive felt extra scrutiny from the three of them (kids and boyfriend), which makes sense.

Both boys have mentioned to my partner that I left them unattended in the hotel pool on this trip. I got pretty defensive when he brought it up, but perhaps I am the a**hole.

I grew up a latchkey kid in the 90s, and am often surprised at the lack of independence both boys demonstrate.. neither of them walk to or from school a few blocks away, they cant be left home alone for an hour to run errands, or go to the corner store by themselves.. it seems odd to me. But I accept that I may be old and wrong.

Anyway.. I was watching them in the hotel pool. Small pool, not deep, but no lifeguard. My partner said he was going upstairs to get his swimsuit and left for 40 minutes. I had to pee.

I said jokingly to them ok dudes, shallow end, no drowning! and went to the lobby bathroom for maybe 5 minutes, then came back to watch them. Weeks later this has come up with both of them.

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Perrotin is pleased to present the double exhibition Diffeomorphism and Discontinuity and the installation La Parabole de lHistoire on Place Vendme. The exhibition showcases the full range of his

As political activist and 2010 New York gubernatorial mayoral candidate Jimmy McMillan once said, the rent is too damn high. It has also been the case in London, where the average rent for a single room in a shared house soared to 933 ($1,109) in October 2022, a 17% increase since the start of the COVID-19 global pandemic, according to CNN. For architect and artist Harrison Marshall, the rising cost of living hit close to home in the summer of 2022 as he searched for an apartment in Central London. Dismayed by the high prices in the popular neighborhood, Marshall created his own tiny Skip House last December, using a dumpster as the foundation. A...

On February 6, a 6.4-magnitude earthquake ripped through parts of southern Turkey and northern Syria, killing tens of thousands and leaving many more homeless. Two weeks later, a second earthquake hit the Turkish province of Hatay, bringing the death toll to over 46,000 across both countries.

Responding to the urgent need for humanitarian aid in the region, five visual artists with personal connections to Turkey have launched a photo print sale to support earthquake victims in Turkey and Syria. Partnering with the US-based community foundation Turkish Philanthropy Funds, Six.Two Editions will donate the net proceeds from the sale to vetted, non-governmental organizations. Over 200 photographs by artists including Diana Markosian, Joel Sternfeld, and Vanessa Winship, among others, are for sale for $150 through March 20.

TAOS, N. Mex. To many people, the cowboy is a symbol of freedom, independence, and self-reliance rooted in western expansion and White Americana. This image has been perpetuated for more than a century in Louis LAmour novels, Spaghetti Westerns, Charles M. Russell paintings, Marlboro ads, and mid-century TV weeklies like The Lone Ranger and Gunsmoke. In reality, of the estimated 35,000 cowboys who worked the western range between 1866 and 1895, up to a quarter were African American, including those who were formerly enslaved and tre...

A largehearted invitation to stand on the precipice between the known and the unknown, without fear, without anxiety, but instead with awe and wonder at this strange and beautiful cosmos we find ourselves in.

That is happiness, Willa Cather wrote, to be dissolved into something complete and great. We have many names for that dissolution, all revolving around some sense of spirituality and they all involving what Iris Murdoch so splendidly termed unselfing experiences, most often furnished by art, music, and nature, that allow us to pierce the veil of selfish consciousness and join the world as it really is.

At the heart of both our spirituality and our science lies this eternal yearning to know the world as it really is lies a yearning with an infinite vector, pointing always just past the horizon of our knowledge, anchored always in the most elemental nature of the human animal: our curiosity, our restlessness, our hunger for truth and transcendence.

And yet the reflex of selfing, which stands so often between us and elemental truth, between us and transcendence, is hard-wired in our physiology our entire experience of reality is lensed through our individual consciousness, housed in the brain and...

When is the appropriate time to cut off your kids financially?

I guess every situation is different, but Im sure it always has to be a tough decision on the part of a parent.

And this father wants to know if hes wrong for cutting off his daughterget the whole story below and see what you think.

AITA for cutting off support to my daughter?

I (52M) have three children with my ex Tracy (50F), Michael (28M), Linda (25F), and Victoria (23F).

We split because Tracy had an affair with Stan (55M) to whom she is now married. We never shared with the kids the reason for the divorce as I didnt want them to blame either of us.

This backfired as the kids saw their mom move out of the house, into a small apartment, and me keep living in the house and remarry two years after the divorce. So they saw me as the bad guy. Stan and Tracy let them pretty much do whatever they wanted and I had to be the disciplinarian who made sure homework was done, appointments were made, and deadlines were met.

My two oldest eventually came to realize that I was not the bad guy. My son when he found out that his mother had put nothing away for college for him as outlined in our divorce decree and she told him to take out loans. My daughter when she realized that her grades were going to keep her out of her desired program in school.

My youngest never came around. So it was a surprise when her boyfriend asked for my blessing to ask for her hand. When I expressed that I didnt think shed care about my blessing he said she insisted on it.

She began spending time with me, being polite to my wife, and it felt wonderful to have my daughter back. I went with them to book the venue, and theyll be getting marr...

Dazzling Celebrity Portraits Captured at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party 2023

 

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PHOENIX The Heard Museum recently opened Hee Nalu: The Art and Legacy of Hawaiian Surfing, an exhibition exploring the culture of Knaka Maoli, the Indigenous people of Hawaii, through the history and cultural significance of Hawaiian surfing. Curated by Carolyn Kualil (Knaka Maoli) and Velma Kee Craig (Din), the show includes contemporary artworks, site-specific installations, and historic material made by cultural practitioners.

Centering Hawaiian Indigeneity brings a fresh perspective to this space, given that the Heard Museum shows predominantly traditional and contemporary artworks by Indigenous peoples of the Southwest. Yet, the exhibition feels fragmented, in part because it elevates Native Hawaiian voices without firmly establishing the foundations of Knaka Maoli storytelling.

Early on, viewers see Papa Hee Nalu I ka W Akua (Surfing in The Time of the Gods) (2022), a striking black-and-white painting by Solomon Robert Nui Enos (Knaka Maoli), which is rooted in the Hawaiian creation story. Here, akua (gods) set upon skateboards convey the pono (equilibrium) thats central to the human body and the rest of the natural world. While reflecting the nature of surfing as a spiritual and cultural practice, the work only hints at the role of cosmology in the storytelling traditions of Native Hawaiians.

Along one wall of an adjacent gallery, various types of surfboards crafted by Tom Phaku Stone (Knaka Maoli) suggest the breadth of surfing practices in Native Hawaiian culture, while calling to the craft and materiality of these objects. Hand-cut paper portraits of Native Hawaiian icons whove contributed to the sport and cultural practice of surfing hang nearby. Created by Ian Joseph Kekoa Kualii(Knaka Maoli/Ndh (Apache), the portraits counter the marginalization and erasure of...

British artist Phyllida Barlow, who placed humble materials in the service of massive works that she described as nonmonumental, owing to their rejection of sleek, masculinized form, died March 13 in

When pro-Bolsonaro rioters invaded the National Congress building, Supreme Court headquarters, and Palcio do Planalto in Braslia on January 8, 2023, they damaged numerous treasures of national art. Emiliano Di Cavalcantis famed 1962 As mulatas painting was perforated seven times. Sculptor Bruno Giorgis O flautista (c. 1960) was pushed over and broken in three places. Jorge Eduardos 1995 painting of a waving Brazilian flag, which reads Order and Progress, was found covered with footprints, according to the National Historic Artistic Heritage Institute (IPHAN), which released a 72-page review of the vandalism and recommendations for restoration.

Now, in addition to those plans, President Luiz Incio Lula da Silvas administration is co...

Harrison Ford and Ke Huy Quan Have an Emotional Indiana Jones Reunion at the Oscars

A full circle moment for Harrison Ford and Ke Huy Quan at the #Oscars. pic.twitter.com/3Ij846mobL

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Over the last year, actor Ke Huy Quan has been in the spotlight for his award-winning work on Everything Everywhere All at Once. Although he was away from the limelight for many decades, he actually made his debut in a star-studded blockbuster: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), as the young sidekick Short Round. At the 95th Oscars, where Quan was given the award for Best Supporting Actor, Harrison Ford was selected to present the Oscar for Best Picture. As the cherry on top to an evening of moving moments, Indiana Jones and Short Round were reunited on the Oscars stage when EEAAO won the biggest award of the night.

On top of Quan and Ford's reunion, another key player of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was in the room as welldirector Steven Spielberg. The famed auteur, who Quan had previously thanked for jumpstarting his career, was at the Oscars for his own film The Fabelmans, but was clearly proud of how far Quan had come. The cameras quickly cut to Spielberg smiling during Quan's victory and his embrace with Ford.

Though this isn't the first time Ford and Quan have reunited in recent yearsthey were photographed together during Disney's D23 Expo in September 2022this was clearly under very different circumstances. After Ford opened the envelope and announced the winner, the cast and crew of EEAAO got up to accept the award. The first to run to the stage was Quan, who excitedly greeted Ford before going all in for a long embrace.

As if the moment wasnt touching enough on its own, photographers at the ceremony were able to capture the hug from an angle that evoked a scene from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, in which Ford's and Quan's characters embrace. This created a tender side by side comparison, almost 40 years in the making. Ultimately, it was full-circle moment for Quan, who has been...

Touche Pas Mon Poste (TPMP) is a highly popular French TV show where guests are invited to discuss current events. In the past weeks, one event captured the attention of French media: The car accident of comedian Pierre Palmade and the revelations that ensued.

Heres a quick summation of what happened:

On 10 February 2023, Palmade was responsible for causing a car accident, colliding head-on with another vehicle traveling on the other lane near Villiers-en-Bire in the south of Seine-et-Marne. Palmade was sent to the hospital in critical condition at the Kremlin-Bictres hospital but recovered the next day, and his life was no longer in danger. The other car was carrying a pregnant woman, her brother-in-law, the driver of the vehicle, and his six-year-old child. Due to trauma of the accident, the 27-year-old woman was taken to the hospital, where she had an emergency cesarean section. Her seven-months old baby died.
Wikipedia, Pierre Palmade

Pierre Palmade

Following the car accident, it was revealed that two people fled Palmades car. They were escort boys, young prostitutes Palmade had hired to engage in chem sex with. Furthermore, Palmade tested positive for enormous doses of cocaine and other drugs.

To make things worse, a few days later, people close to Palmade accused him of viewing and possessing pedophilic pornographic material which prompted the launch of an investigation. In other words, Palmade was involved in typical occult elite degeneracy.

To d...

UK prime minister Rishi Sunak on March 13 told reporters that the British government has no plans to return the Parthenon marbles to Greece, despite recent reports to the contrary. The UK has cared

The MFA in Studio Art at The University of Alabama is a selective three-year program where students can specialize in diverse disciplines as they prepare for a career as a visual artist. Concentrations in ceramics, painting, printmaking, photography, and sculpture offer opportunities for specialization. However, the curriculum supports exploration across media, and the departments internationally recognized graduate faculty includes artists working in digital media, drawing, graphic design, installation, video, and social practice. Enrollments are modest by design, allowing students to have designated studio space and to work closely with faculty mentors.

The university campus is a vibrant hub for contemporary art with regularly occurring exhibitions, workshops, and panel discussions. The Paul R. Jones Museum and Sarah Moody Gallery of Art are active collecting institutions and teaching centers where significant historic and contemporary works are incorporated into the graduate educational experience. A robust visiting artist and scholar program brings internationally recognized researchers, curators, artists, and practitioners to campus for speaking engagements and graduate studio visits.

A generous funding pool provides financial support to many incoming students, with several receiving renewable full tuition waivers and stipends of $15,300$20,000. Additional research funding is available to enrolled students to support travel, external exhibition opportunities, and conference participation.

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In her ongoing series of delightful fabric dolls, Ukrainian artist Yulia reimagines meals and snacks with playful personalities. Often conceived as families or groups united by a common theme like vegetables, tea bags, or breakfast items, her friendly figures don patterned apparel in a variety of colorful fabrics. Whether their heads are shaped like macaroni, ginger root, or bacon, all of the artists characters share beady, wide-set eyes and enigmatically sweet smiles.

Yulia occasionally releases new editions in her Etsy shop, and you can follow updates on Instagram.

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Jamie Lee Curtis and Ke Huy Quan Share a Tearful Moment Backstage at the Oscars After Their Wins

First time Oscar winners Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis sharing a moment together after winning.
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Actors Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis won their first-ever Oscars last Sunday. Having worked together on the movie Everything Everywhere All at Once, they've been rooting for each other throughout the 2023 awards season. After picking up a handful of awardsincluding the Golden Globe for Quan and the SAG Award for Curtisthey won their respective categories at the Academy Awards. The placement of both supporting actor categories at the beginning of the broadcast led to a touching encounter between the two actors and friends.

After their names were read aloud by presenter Ariana DeBose, both Curtis and Quan gave tearful speeches that referenced their storied careers. Quan, who went first, had the chance to hug Curtis on the way to the stage. In his acceptance speech, he spoke about almost giving up on his dream. The very next win went to Curtis, who gave her late parents a shout out in her speech. Once the segment was over, the two castmates ended up backstage at the same time, where they shared a moving moment as they openly cried and celebrated their wins.

Having them win together was particularly poignant since this was both Quan's and Curtis' first Oscar nomination, despite having been in the film industry for several decades. Quan made his debut in 1984 in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom next to Harrison Ford, while Curtis' first movie was Halloween (1978), which would spawn a franchise and lead her to reprising her role as Laurie Strode for at least six more times.

Over the course of the night, EEAAO went on to win a total of seven Oscars, proving this was a beloved project all around. And the love for the film permeated through every person involved in the production. Curtis has repeatedly referenced the cast and crew of EEAAO as family, and Quan credit...

Have you ever called the cops on anyone before?

Okay, let me ask you another question: have you ever called the cops on a FAMILY MEMBER before?

Id venture to say that a lot of us definitely haventbut sometimes it just has to be done.

Check out this story and see if you think this woman went too far

AITA for calling the Police on my husband after I found that he was hiding my sons motorcycle?

I got my son a 7k motorcycle for his 18th birthday this past June. My son is obsessed with automobile and loves motorcycles. In his room he has plenty of models and posters of motorcycles of all types. His bio dad passed away when he was just 12, now Im married to my current husband and he has kids of his own.

My husband has always been against my sons interest in motorcycles. he thinks Im encouraging him to be reckless, distracting him from school and by extension his future, and spoiling him and blowing away money by spending 7k on a motorcycle. This caused some tension between him and my son so I told him to stop complaining about it.

Around 2 weeks ago, my sons motorcycle went missing. We opened a police report but nothing came out of it. it just disappeared. My husband had a smirk on his face the entire time just walking around saying I told you so!, you just wasted your money!. This was unbearable to hear to be quite honest.

My mother in law visited few days ago. She was talking about the other house my husband owns and mentioned seeing a motorcycle, one thats similar to the one that we lost in my husbands garage while she was cleaning it (she goes to clean that house weekly even though its empty, my...

<h2><a href= "https://mymodernmet.com/iran-pharmacy-hijab-men-protest/" rel= "nofollow">New Iranian Law Forces Female Pharmacists to Wear Black Hijab, So Male Coworkers Mock It by Wearing Them Too</a></h2> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Irans Food & Drug Administration has ordered pharmacies to force their female staff to wear black veils at workplace. Iranian men are mocking this order and supporting their female colleagues by wearing hijab.
Compulsory hijab is the main pillar of a religious relationship. <a href= "https://t.co/h7sixsZyfq">https://t.co/h7sixsZyfq</a> <a href= "https://t.co/cnngIXynGm">pic.twitter.com/cnngIXynGm</a></p> <p> Masih Alinejad (@AlinejadMasih) <a href= "https://twitter.com/AlinejadMasih/status/1633035301978353664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"> March 7, 2023</a></p> </blockquote> <p>Iranian women have been openly protesting the mandatory use of a hijab since 2022. Protests broke out after 22-year-old <a href= "https://mymodernmet.com/mahsa-amini-iran-protests/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Mahsa Amini</a> was arrested by the Iranian morality police for not wearing her hijab properly and she died in their custody. While the demonstrations have put the issue on a global stage, the Iranian government has tried to push back. Recently, it was <a href="https://www.iranintl.com/en/202302266266" rel="noopener" target="_blank">reported</a> that Iran's FDA has ordered female pharmacy workers across the country to wear only black hijabs in the workplace. In turn, their male coworkers have shown their support for the women with a tongue-in-cheek response.</p> <p>Iranian journalist <a href="https://twitter.com/AlinejadMasih" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Masih Alinejad</a> shared <a href= "https://twitter.com/AlinejadMasih/status/1633035301978353664" rel= "noopener" target="_blank">two images</a> of male pharmacy workersone with a prescription in his hand, the other browsing a store shelfsporting the now-mandated black hijab. Irans Food & Drug Administration has ordered pharmacies to force their female staff to wear black veils at workplace. Iranian men are mocking this order and supporting their female colleagues by wearing hijab, Alinejad wrote. Compulsory hijab is the main pillar of a religious relationship. Together we will bring this wall down.</p> <p>According to <a href="https://www.iranintl.com/en/202302266266" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Iran International</a>, on top of the compulsory hijab, drugstores have to display the new rule where the clients can see it. On top of that, the managers are responsible for monitoring how female staff are covered. If anyone wants to open a pharmacy, the owner must submit a written commitment regarding this topic. Due to this new law, two drugstores in Tehran...

What happens when you put colonialism and whiteness on critical display in the colonial exhibition space? Thinking with Aim Cesaires Discourse on Colonialism, this question drives my curatorial approach to permanent collections in encyclopedic art museums. Although my attempts to fully realize this project as the associate curator of American art at Newfields caused me a lot of harm, Ive always envisioned it as a reinstallation framework that any encyclopedic institution could apply to its collections. Over the past three years, Ive analyzed several museum collections and what follows are the questions I pose and some objects Ive chosen as answers.

I typically begin by asking: Is there a vital work in the collection that can anchor a reinstall about colonialism? At Newfields, it was Tim Hawkinsons Mbius Ship. Its reference to the mathematical properties of the Mbius strip a continuous loop that has only one surface is a perfect metaphor for colonialism. A Mbius strip is not a surface of only one exact size and shape; it shrinks and expands, but as it compresses it forms an infinite loop. In essence, a Mbius strip exists forever. Similarly, colonialism has been an ever-changing, continuous loop that has governed global society since the 15th century. I feel like thats the story museu...

HUSTLED INTO THEATERS, onto streaming services, or continuing their festival tours, the very fine, the undistinguished, and the (unnamed below) abysmal movies from the 2023 Sundance Film Festival

Disney Released Its Trailer for the Live-Action Remake of The Little Mermaid

 

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Last Christmas marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Residents first release, Santa Dog. Ralph Records gave away most of the initial pressing as a free gift, mailing copies of...

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Jason Logans entry into ink-making started with a black walnut tree he encountered while biking through a local Toronto park. After gathering the fallen seeds and bringing them home, he boiled the green nuts until they produced a rich brown pigment. Now nearly ten years ago, this moment became the catalyst for whats grown into an expansive network of projects exploring the possibilities of color and foraging in the most unlikely spaces.

Logan founded The Toronto Ink Company in 2014 and began to create pigments from materials gathered around the Canadian city, including the aforementioned black walnut but also street detritus like cigarette butts, soot, and rust. The idea was to create more environmentally conscious products and extend foraging into urban environments. You start seeking out hopeful green spaces under a highway overpass or in a back alley, Logan said in an interview. A rusty nail becomes a possible ink or a penny with greenish oxidation on it.

These discoveries led to Make Ink, his 2018 guidebook for scavenging with recipes and tips on creating pigments at home. Organized by color, the 192-page volume encompasses history and science and focuses on the alchemy behind his work. The book is also the...