My Mayor Muslim, My Art Political — Street photographers hit the NYC streets; plus, an inside look at the Pace Gallery downsizing.
Dollar Extends Slide as Traders Scale Back Fed Tightening Bets — The dollar fell to its weakest level in three months as investors scaled back expectations for further Federal Reserve interest-rate increases following a run of softer US economic data.
DeviantArt Is an All-in-One Platform for the Creative Economy — Grow your practice and make meaningful connections by becoming part of DeviantArt's creative community today.
30 Must-See Art Shows in New York City This Summer — Pierre Huyghe’s brain activity-inspired dreamscapes, Orientalism at The Met, a menagerie of mystical animals, and so much more.
Heikki's Garden of Flowers | archive of pictorial typography — An archive of ~2500 pictorial typography and letterpress works spanning four centuries, images composed entirely of type ornaments, characters, and rule. The history of ASCII art before computers.
Radical Reclamation at the First-Ever ArtPhilly Festival — Hyperallergic joined the artists and organizers for the opening week of the new city-wide event, featuring over 30 original commissions.
Georgia O’Keeffe the Wanderer — A new documentary presents the artist as a perpetual voyager, generously highlighting her lesser-known work and combating myths about her relationship with Alfred Stieglitz.
A View From the Easel — “My batik process is done in stages: from drawing, to waxing, to color staining, to boiling, and finally to oil painting.”
Opportunities in June 2026 — Residencies, fellowships, grants, and open calls from the VH Award, Bennett Prize, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers.
Restaurants can now accept orders placed directly from ChatGPT and Claude thanks to Square's new, low-fee, no setup integration — <p>Square is launching a new ChatGPT app and Claude plugin, enabling consumers to discover restaurants and seamlessly place orders directly within…
Backport refreshed bundled model metadata to 0.144 by sayan-oai · Pull Request #33972 · openai/codex — Summary Backport d26a9bf671b1c03aabfc32e1092d137c1feb3962 to the 0.144 release line. Refresh bundled GPT-5.6 model instructions and context-window metadata. Refresh…
Roda Medhat Subverts Traditional Kurdish Narratives Into Modern Tactile Experiences — Toronto-based Kurdish artist Roda Medhat pushes the boundaries of fabric into the realm of sculpture.
Portsmouth Flood Wall Murals in Portsmouth, Ohio — <p><img alt="Example of mural segment" data-width="4032" data-height="3024" width="300" height="200" src="https://img.atlasobscura.com/2Hpbgs-dmWc3OWOEQVuHfWUBxBm7crNdV4Yj59xx1Qk/rs:fill:300:200:1/g:ce/c:3854:2569:nowe:57:168/q:…
Elaborate Kené Patterns by Sara Flores Continue an Ancient Indigenous Tradition — Flores is the first Indigenous artist to represent Peru at the Venice Biennale, complemented by a solo exhibition at White Cube in New York.
8 Samsung background apps you can safely uninstall (without breaking anything) — These aren't bad apps, but there's no reason to keep what you don't use.
Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType Hinting Interpreter — TrueType is a widely used vector font standard for rendering text in web pages, PDFs, operating systems, and applications. Familiar fonts like Helvetica, Garamond, and Monaco are all built on TrueType outlines. The form
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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Is About to Crash Into the Moon—and It Could Be Visible From Earth — The impact will kick up a plume of debris so high, it’ll likely be visible through some telescopes. Astronomers will be watching.
I started a "dirt notebook" — I love taking notes, but one problem that I have is that that I start cherishing every notebook that I start. I can't seem to keep my notes messy. Eventually...
This botanist spent 15 years photographing the exact moment flowers open at sunrise... the time-lapse is hypnotic 🌸✨
Portrait looted by Nazis found in home of Dutch SS leader's descendants — The painting is believed to have been plundered by high-ranking Nazi Hermann Goering during World War Two.
Chinese Steel Output Tumbles as Economic Conditions Worsen — Chinese steel production tumbled last month, putting the industry on track for the lowest annual total this decade as mills adjust to much weaker demand.
Thoroughly Understanding C++ ABI — This article was translated by AI using Gemini 2.5 Pro from the original Chinese version. Minor inaccuracies may remain. Application Binary Interface, or ABI as we commonly call it, is a concept that feels both familiar and unfamiliar.…
‘They take you out of life, out of time’: a journey into Spain’s astonishing cave paintings — The long read: For tens of thousands of years, these Palaeolithic artworks were unseen. When they were rediscovered, onlookers marvelled at their vivid beauty. One of the world’s leading
Sources: Bears' Luther Burden III expected to miss preseason — Bears receiver Luther Burden III is expected to miss the preseason with a groin injury, but the team believes he'll be ready for Week 1 vs. Carolina, sources told ESPN.
Watch 1969’s Apollo 11 Moon Landing “Live!” — 57 years ago today, on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon and went for a little walk. For the 18th year in a row, you can watch
Avian Visitors - Teddy Warner — A live bird collage from your window.
Art Movements: Sam Gilliam Foundation Names Its First Director — Dr. Steven Nelson to helm the nonprofit, Aperture HQ's fall opening date, and, uh, the New Museum partners with Penske Media?
The Looter Who Built Your Favorite Museum — A new book maps the network that allowed Douglas Latchford to violently rip Khmer statues from their homes and funnel them into Western institutions.
Goodbyes to Beaumont and Knight as India close in on Test win — Tammy Beaumount and Heather Knight brought their England careers to an end on day three of the one-off Test with India, with the tourists needing four more wickets to secure victory at Lord's heading into the final…
Roku is increasing prices across its hardware range — Roku's streaming devices got a price hike, and it's reportedly because of industry-wide memory shortages.
Required Reading — This week: Esperanto on Duolingo, a Black Panther Party stud grandma, Arsenal and Africa, queer fish, the secret leftist history of Renaissance faires, and more.
Art school admission portfolios ranked by how much they tried, most of them are just expensive phone photography with a statement about identity 📸😬