Quote for Today: Madeline Miller
Odysseus inclines his head. “True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in one generation is abhorred in …
Look and Listen #18: Kent Monkman’s Paintings
Kent Monkman is a Cree visual artist working in multiple media. This particular short film explores the process and intent behind two large paintings created for exhibition in the Great …
Look and Listen #8: Looking back at Kara Walker’s Subtlety via Art21
Subtlety was a marvelous sculpture made by Kara Walker for the Domino Sugar Factory, a place dripping with the residue of productivity, a productivity built on the backs of African …
Quote for Today: Ta-Nehisi Coates
As for now, it must be said that the process of washing the disparate tribes white, the elevation of the belief in being white, was not achieved through wine tastings …
Quote for Today: Elizabeth Acevedo
I’m constantly having to give people geography and history lessons on how my grandmother’s hometown is 65 percent Afro-Puerto Rican, on how the majority of slaves were dropped off …
Globe-trotting Travel Series #26: Japanese Supernatural Art from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Day 26! Today’s Globe-trotting Travel Series features a video about supernatural characters in Japanese art, from woodblocks to manga, video games and pop culture. Such a clever presentation and fascinating …
Quote for Today: Becky Chambers
A moth was a caterpillar, once, but it no longer is a caterpillar. It cannot break itself back down, cannot metamorphose in reverse. To try to eat leaves again would …
Globe-trotting Travel Series #11: Rome, Italy by Drone via ANSA
Day 11 of our Globe-trotting Travel Series features a beautiful drone fly-over of Rome, Italy, released by the Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata (Associated Press National Agency). It is amazing to …
Quote for Today: Marie-Louise Sjoestedt
The inscriptions (mere names or epithets of divinities) and the monuments (in so far as they are purely Celtic, for we must reckon with the possibility of Roman influence) give …
Quote for Today: Carl Sagan
Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. Initially our loyalties were to ourselves and our immediate family, next, to …