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
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Nebula Sans — Nebula Sans is the brand typeface for Nebula, available under the SIL Open Font License.
Korea's Coastal Folklore Surfaces in Jeongmin Lee's Ink Illustrations — On traditional Korean mulberry paper, Jeongmin Lee draws delicate lines in ink and pigments known as bunchae.
‘Superhuman’ AI tool spots heart disease in less than 2 seconds — Technology trained on millions of routine ECGs could fast-track high-risk patients for treatment
Gaia Sleeps Amid Sarah Eberle's Award-Winning Garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show — A team of artists and artisans created the snoozing figure from a fallen tree, willow branches, and stone.
Best Illusion of the Year Contest - Best Illusion of the Year Contest — Support the contest! The Contest relies on your donations Post your ad here About the Contest The Best Illusion of the YearSM Contest is a celebration of illusions and perception, created by the ingenuity of
Phoenix Art Museum Receives Largest Gift of Native American Works — A hundred works by Indigenous artists tracing creative resilience over the course of a century will go on view at the institution in August.
Artists Reclaim Lady Liberty — Aruna D’Souza on the iconic monument as a tool of political expression and Ed Simon on the allure and anxiety of the Hudson River School.
watched someone paint the same corner of their studio wall for three months. turned out they were testing paint colors to see which one made the shadows look less lonely
An Interactive Sculpture by Wade and Leta Celebrates the Sun-Bleached Australian Landscape — In Sydney's Circular Quay, a kinetic installation by Brooklyn-based artists Wade and Leta spins, twirls, and totters.
Kaleidoscopic Subway Mosaics Celebrate Flatbush’s Theater History — At the Church Avenue station, Christopher Myers’s glass-tiled panels explore the rich legacy of vaudeville and Afro-Caribbean carnival culture.
Tate Names Dia Leader Jessica Morgan as Next Director — The British curator will return to London to helm the museum network beginning next year.
The Obamas Unveil First-Ever Official Dual Portrait — The richly layered painting was created by artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby using her signature photo-transfer technique.
Man United 0-1 Man City (Sep 13, 2026) Game Analysis - ESPN — Expert recap and game analysis of the Manchester United vs. Manchester City English Premier League game from September 13, 2026 on ESPN.
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.
UAE to Complete New Hormuz-Bypass Oil Pipeline by 2027 — The United Arab Emirates is building a new pipeline bypassing the Strait of Hormuz and plans to have it in operation by 2027.
Simone Forti in Her Own Words — A never-before-published interview with the late performance artist, police arrest anti-ICE protesters in DC, and an artist’s scented toilets for Frieze London.
Required Reading — This week: the Obama Center opens in Chicago, painting with Urdu script, glamour as protest, the woman who popularized astrology, an artist’s ode to pigeons, and more.
Required Reading — This week: Nancy Spero’s pro-choice art, Valentina Di Liscia on “Casa Cueva,” Brooklyn’s smallest museum, Jamaica Kincaid’s eyebrows, Israeli cuisine and Palestinian erasure, and more.
My Queasy, Forest-Scented Stroll Through LA’s New AI Art Museum — Refik Anadol’s Dataland is a whirling, glaring, hyper-stimulating audio-visual-olfactory voyage that has more in common with Disneyland.
A Progressive Win for Artists in Florida — Angie Nixon’s track record in culture, MIT loans art to students, the Speed Museum returns Native artifacts, and more.
Construct Your Own Miniature Paper Brutalist Circuses with 'Cirk' — 'Cirk,' a new book from David Navarro and Martyna Sobecka of Zupagrafika, highlights a wide range of permanent circuses.
Health, Technology, Art, and Design Intersect at UC Davis Graduate Showcase — On view at the Manetti Shrem Museum through June 20, the multidisciplinary exhibition features projects by 20 arts graduate students.
Israel Incensed as UNESCO Adds Lebanese and West Bank Sites to World Heritage List — The Mount Amel Castles and the archaeological ruins of Sebastia are among six new heritage sites considered to be in danger.
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!
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.”
Veks Van Hillik Suspends Fish, Insects, and Other Objects in Surreal Murals — Art history and ecology merge in Veks Van Hillik's bold, vaguely unsettling murals.
Nathaniel Mary Quinn’s Fragments of Home — His fractured portraits at the National Public Housing Museum reckon with memory, family, and a childhood shaped by Chicago’s Robert Taylor Homes.
Walter Benjamin Warned Us About AI — The philosopher believed that good photography provokes cognition while dangerous photography soothes, as seen in a jewel box show at the Jewish Museum.
WOFF 1.0: a milestone on W3C’s journey of fonts on the web — The anniversary of the first public release of Web Open Font Format (WOFF) is a very interesting historical milestone on the decades-long road of W3C’s work on fonts on the web.
Venetian Bridge Brawls in 17th and 18th Century Art — Artworks from an era when Venetians brawled on bridges.
Retail Traders Chase Shiny Objects But Refuse to Bet on S&P 500 — Retail traders, some of the staunchest supporters of the stock market this decade, are showing signs of waning conviction.
Bernie Sanders, AOC join marchers in Washington to ‘defend the vote’ — Thousands of people marched on Washington DC, invoking Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy on the 63rd anniversary.
Two Artists' Odyssey Up the Erie Canal — The shared origins of Liberian and Gullah basketry, artists Z Behl and Kim Moloney’s 350-mile durational performance, and a massive zine library hidden in a Texas apartment.
Family Memories and Midwestern Niceties Converge in Melissa Joseph's 'Casserole Culture' — Working from family photos, Melissa Joseph captures the warmth and tenderness of Midwestern life in industrial felt.
A View From the Easel — “I am endlessly fascinated by porcelain.”
'Odyssey' Translator Emily Wilson Is Starting Over After Calling Christopher Nolan's Blockbuster Film 'Abysmal' — Nearly a decade after her acclaimed first translation was released, Wilson is taking a fresh approach to Homer's ancient Greek epic
Watch Slayyyter Cover Hole’s “Violet” — A rendition so good Courtney Love offered to come work for her
Pratt Manhattan Gallery Moves “Beyond Digital” in New Exhibition — Exhibition of Pratt Digital Arts alumni explores technology, ecology, and emerging forms of intelligence.
Stuffed Animals and Found Objects Reconfigure in Sungho Bae's Uncanny Sculptures — Sungho Bae's uncanny sculptures aremade of a vibrant, fleshy patchwork that resembles organs, tissue, muscle, and more.
This Just In: Milwaukee Transit Passes — In the 1930s–60s, Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company offered trolley and bus riders a weekly burst of color and hand lettering. About 300 of these tickets are now in our collection.
Leslie Wayne's 'The Unintended Blues' Contemplates Rising Seas and Vulnerable Shorelines — 'The Unintended Blues' is presented as part of the 2026 River to River Festival, facilitated by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Counsel.
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A Homerist Reacts to Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” — “This is a tale of a man affected by trauma, but without any sense that it changed him at all.”
TypeStax: A type scale generator that feels like vintage audio hardware — Build harmonious type scales on a skeuomorphic analog control panel. Per-element editing, Google Fonts, live previews, and Figma export.
In a New 223-Megapixel Image, NASA Captures 16.5 Million Stars of the Cigar Galaxy — Captured by Webb’s NIRCam across 65 hours, the enormous image features the dense Messier 82 galaxy 12 million light-years away.
My Favorite Airbnb: A Gorgeous Family Villa on a Special Stretch of the Algarve — A Belle Époque–style home where local influences and geometric architecture meet the picturesque Portuguese coastline.
Three killed in strikes on Gaza as Israel renews threats over kite-flying — Israeli defence minister renews threat to expel Palestinians from areas where kites or balloons are being flown in Gaza.
A Spectre is Haunting Unicode — In 1978 Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry established the encoding that would later be known as JIS X 0208, which still serves as an important reference for all Japanese encodings. However, after the JIS standard was released people…
Heatwaves in France Damage Beloved Flowers at Monet’s Gardens — Gardeners at the painter’s home and garden in Giverny said that nasturtiums will have to be replanted for next year’s bloom.
'Voices in the Mirror' Honors the Legacy of Pioneering Photographer Gordon Parks — A large-scale survey of Gordon Parks' most iconic photographs go on view in a celebration of his work and 20 years of The Gordon Parks Foundation.
US State Department Takes Down “Woke” Kehinde Wiley Painting — “Young Artists After Siamesa 1960” (2015) was removed from the US Embassy in the Dominican Republic and could be sold.
Remembering Frayda Feldman, James Wagner, and Melodee Strong — This week, we honor an Andy Warhol print expert, a tireless art collector, and a beloved Minneapolis muralist.
Kevin Warsh confirmed as new US Federal Reserve chair amid controversy — Senate confirms Trump pick Kevin Warsh as Federal Reserve chair amid growing concerns over independence.
Investors See 10-Year Treasury Yields at 5% Hurting EM Asia Debt — Global funds see any rise in Treasury 10-year yields toward 5% spurring outflows from emerging Asian bonds, as higher rates in the US will prompt investors to favor dollar assets over regional debt.
German exit polls suggest far-right party has big lead in regional election — The Alternative for Germany party has a strong lead in a regional election, but it is unclear if it will be able to form Germany's's first far-right state government since WWII, exit polls indicate.
In a Single Year, Ocean Census Scientists Discovered More than 1,100 New Marine Species — According to the collaborative marine research initiative, up to 90 percent of ocean life remains a mystery.
Yayoi Kusama, Artist of Infinities, Dies at 97 — She channeled her mental health struggles into kaleidoscopic artworks that enamored the world, rendering her an icon closer to a spiritual leader than a contemporary artist.
The 4 Best Monitor Arms to Clear Up Your Desk Space (2026) — Your desk setup needs a monitor arm, and I’ve been testing every one I can get my hands on to find the best.