The Title Cards in Blade Runner Are Fucking Amazing — Appreciating typography is a study in paradox. The primary goal of well-designed typography is to help you read the words, not appreciate how the words are comp
The Longtail of Incarceration Unfolds in Gil Batle's Surreal Narratives — The flora and fauna of a tiny Filipino island commingle with harrowing memories of California prisons in the surreal works of Gil Batle.
A Fresh View In May (2026 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine — Let’s welcome May with a new collection of desktop wallpapers! Following our monthly tradition, the wallpapers were created by the community for the community and can be downloaded for free. Enjoy!
Yeti Coolers and Cups Are Up to $100 Off for Amazon Prime Day — Snag some new Yeti gear in your choice of eye-popping colors while supplies last (which won't be long).
James Turrell's 100th 'Skyscape' Opens in Aarhus — 'Skyscape' is a site-specific architectural installation with a simple construction: a domed structure with an oculus pointed toward the sky.
15 Outdoor Art Shows to See in NYC This Summer — Slide through a teddy bear, get weird with a neural network’s hallucinations, play ping-pong on an artist-made table, and so much more.
1,700 Free Online Courses from Top Universities — Take online courses from the world’s top universities for free. Below, you will find 1,700 free online courses from universities like Yale, MIT, Harvard, Oxford and more. Note: This page includes a lot of Massive Open Online Co
Heritage Bookbinding Elements Transform in Contemporary Sculptures by Adelene Koh — For Loewe Foundation Craft Prize finalist Adelene Koh, an under-appreciated element of a book's construction becomes the highlight.
Nayland Blake Doesn’t Believe in Fixed Selves — “You have to be a person who champions other work,” they told Hyperallergic, “so that you build the context within which your work can be legible.”
10 Art Shows to See in Chicago This Summer — Blessedly, despite the corn sweat, the city’s gallery and museum scene is eager to provide fresh work for the Midwestern mind.
Your Friendly Neighborhood Hooters — The chain is attempting a wholesome revival. Will it work?
Janice Yang's Symbol-Rich Paintings Conjure Dreams and the Desire for Home — Years of labor and adaptation as a first-generation immigrant shaped Korean-American artist Janice Yang's approach to painting.
"Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok — Four frontier models, a blank canvas, and colored pencils. We tracked every stroke, dollar, and output as they tried to draw the Mona Lisa.
How Newspapers Helped Democratize Knowledge and Civic Participation — Literacy is not a deus ex machina descending helpfully from the clouds to usher in a new, more just political order. At the beginning of the twentieth century Germany had been regarded as one of th…
Man Arrested in Broad Daylight Theft of 2,500-Year-Old Gold Torque From French Museum — Discovered in an ancient Celtic tomb in northern Burgundy, the neck collar is considered one of the most prized objects in the institution's collection.
Patrick Dougherty's 'Stickwork' Installations Conjure Connections with Nature — For more than four decades, the artist has reimagined the technical and sculptural capabilities of one simple material: twigs.
GitHub - jimparis/qr-font: A QR code generator in a TrueType font: https://qr.jim.sh/ — A QR code generator in a TrueType font: https://qr.jim.sh/ - jimparis/qr-font
The Small Miracle of Greenpoint Open Studios — The annual festival, which went on hiatus during the pandemic, welcomed visitors into the workspaces of over 250 artists in the Brooklyn neighborhood.
Words of Type | Encyclopedia — Multilingual encyclopedia of typographic terms.
Chelsea nearing £16.3m deal for Rayo defender Chavarria — Chelsea are closing in on an agreement with Rayo Vallecano for defender Pep Chavarria.
5 CSS Properties You Should Know for Better Text Designs — Includes background-clip for masking backgrounds, vertical-align for aligning elements, box-decoration-mode for consistent edge styling, letter-spacing for spacing control, and text-combine-upright for vertical text…
not to be that guy but most art tutorials skip the part where you realize your composition is actually just a worse version of a painting from 1847? 🎨 found someone who actually maps this out 😅
The curious case of the disappearing Polish S — One keyboard bug three decades in the making
Apple @ Work Podcast: Remember Postini? - 9to5Mac — In this episode of Apple @ Work, Luke Wescott from Sublime Security joins the show to discuss the recent surge in callback phishing attacks abusing auto notifications, verifications, alerts, receipts, and more.
Chicago Photographer Accuses Mickalene Thomas of Copyright Infringement — Barbara Karant alleges that Thomas “appropriated more than a dozen” of her images in a new lawsuit.
Surreal Dreams Reign in Hieu Chau's Digital Illustrations — Working digitally, Vietnamese artist Hieu Chau compares his dense, dynamic compositions to his always active mind.
West Virginia paid digital nomads to move there during COVID. Many are staying — Ascend West Virginia is one of dozens of relocation initiatives across the country offering cash and other incentives to move to states needing an economic boost. Here's how they're working out.
'Turn the Volume Up!' Highlights the History of Speaking Out for Change in America — 'Turn the volume up!' at the Nasher Museum of Art includes works by a diverse group of contemporary artists and photographers.
Fighting Illiteracy With Typography — Why an attempt to simplify Arabic script for printing and learning has the potential to boost literacy, and why it has not yet succeeded.
Pyramid-JiT: Low-Res Drafts, High-Res Images — Accelerating convergence in text-to-image with multiresolution prediction
Patriots vs. Bills livestream: How to watch NFL for free — Can the Bills make it four wins in a row?
Beyond the Myth of Chico da Silva — Presenting da Silva with Amazonian artists of different generations undermines the Western notion of the artist as an isolated genius.
Enterprises are overpaying for simple AI queries — Snowflake's gateway now auto-routes to cut costs up to 3x — <p>Enterprise teams running AI agents at scale are finding that a single model handles every task poorly — either the model is too expensive for simple questions or…
On Taking Care of Each Other — Strikes averted at four NYC museums, the devastating loss of Francis Lee Rogers, the city doubles artist grants, and The Met’s breathtaking Krasner-Pollock show.
4 critically acclaimed HBO Max shows to watch before the 2026 Emmys — Before the 2026 Emmys, check out these nominated shows from HBO Max, including a Game of Thrones spin-off and a riveting crime drama.
Rob Weychert | Art & Design — I make art and design, obsess over film and music, hoard trivial archival data, and share it all on this here website. Enjoy your stay.
Meet the people preserving the practice of bird banding | The Narwhal — Birds migrate across the world, as do the volunteers who participate in bird-banding practices. But Canadian conservation programs are threatened by cross-border funding cuts
Discover Art & Artists | The Art Institute of Chicago — Discover art by Van Gogh, Picasso, Warhol & more in the Art Institute's collection spanning 5,000 years of creativity.
Mirror Lakes in Te Anau, New Zealand — <p><img alt="Mirror Lakes" data-width="6000" data-height="4000" width="300" height="200" src="https://img.atlasobscura.com/Rje4TgO4gg7CobdjVB_5nkPBAmPgyC0VnguAEX4G7CM/rs:fill:300:200:1/g:ce/q:81/sm:1/scp:1/ar:1/aHR0cHM6Ly9hdGxh/cy1kZXYuczMu…
A Convicted Antiquities Dealer’s Web — Phoenix Ancient Art funneled objects of shaky provenance into dozens of museums. Why are many of them still there?
Artist’s Planned Monument to Charlie Kirk Gets Trolled Online — “God gave me permission,” Sergio Furnani, the NYC sculptor behind the design, told Hyperallergic about his unsanctioned and widely decried work.
How an 'absolute fluke' exposed sandpapergate scandal — How a team of South Africa camera operators discovered Australia's sandpapergate scandal as it happened.
Monumental Joyful Murals by Ella & Pitr Fill Urban Rooftops and Fields — Known for their monumental murals, which span entire public squares, rooftops, playing fields, and more, Ella & Pitr bring eccentric joy to urban spaces. The artists often represent people from…
US Expands Search for Critical-Mineral Projects for Defense Gear — The Trump administration is seeking investment pitches from domestic producers of metals used in fighter jets, night-vision goggles and tank armor.
Obama Center, Nayland Blake, Danielle Mckinney — The “Obamalith” is unveiled while the School of the Art Institute of Chicago wages war against its students’ imagination.
11-Year-Old Boy Sets Guinness Record for World’s Youngest Curator — Anderson Taylor opened the Cambridge Natural History Museum in rural Illinois at just nine years old
Odd Lots: There Are a Lot of Rich People in America (Podcast) — In 2014, the economists Owen Zidar and Eric Zwick were asked by the Treasury to conduct a study on the tax burden of private business owners. It was tricky to figure out how much these sorts of business owners —…
Children's Imaginations Run Wild in Taekhan Yun's Collaborative Design Workshops — A series of hands-on workshops facilitated by designer Taekhan Yun invited children to conceive of whimsical chairs and birdhouses.
World of WearableArt's 'GLO!' Is a Celebration of Culture, Nature, and Whimsy — The annual fashion-meets-performance competition is an international visual feast that continues through October 4.
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Sumerian King List Paleoclimate Alignment Test | vectorian — A statistical test of whether the Sumerian King List's antediluvian reigns line up with paleoclimate events better than chance.
The In-Between Worlds of Larissa Borteh — In the artist's paintings, are we looking at plants in a state of beautiful decay, ghosts, deities, fairylands, or something from a dream?
Workers Push to Rename Wexner Center for the Arts Over Epstein Ties — The union said the Victoria’s Secret billionaire and Epstein associate’s name “does a profound disservice” to artists and community members.
I found love at an Irish matchmaking festival - and I want others to do the same — Mary Timby flew to Ireland on a whim last year and met her boyfriend at a matchmaking festival.
An Artist’s MFA Show Confronts Columbia University Over Gaza — Alejandro Valencia’s multipart installation alludes to the institution’s failure to come to terms with Israel’s genocide of Palestinians.
The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner - T.R Napper — This article was published last year, but due to its enduring popularity I’ve moved it to the front page for...
Required Reading — This week: Chitra Ganesh’s futuristic myths, André Breton and optimism, the mermaids of Florida, a Palestinian digital archive, Argentina and racism, and more.
Hell and High Water — A memorial statue of Charlie Kirk might be coming to Times Square, Trevor Winkfield’s artificial worlds, and a beer with painter Keltie Ferris.
Julie Mehretu, Claire Valdez, Arthur Jafa — Meet the New York artist running for Congress, and some advice to art school graduates.
Classical Musicians Interpret Astronauts' Footage of the Planet for Earth Music Theater — Multimedia project Earth Music Theater marries sonic experiences with incredible imagery captured from Earth's orbit.