Pablo Picasso, The Barbarous Dance (in Front of Salomé and Hérode) (La Danse barbare [devant Salomé et Herode]) from the Saltimbanques series, 1905, published 1913 #museumofmodernart #museumarchive
The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
• Traci Taylor
25 Years Later, New York Remembers September 11
Take a look back at haunting images from September 11 that remind us why we must never forget. Continue reading…
No. 9, 1948 #rothko #abstractexpressionism
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• Michael Nordine
One of the first TV remotes changed the channel with sound.
Changing the channel is easier than ever these days: You can use any number of newfangled remotes, some of which are on your phone and others that are controlled by voice. Back when your parents or grandparents had to walk uphill both ways to school, however, the clicker wor...
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• Bess Lovejoy
The Origins of 7 Famous Mythical Beasts
Some monsters have been haunting human stories for thousands of years. Others arrived surprisingly recently, helped along by newspaper headlines, blurry photographs, mistranslations, and the occasional hippopotamus-foot ashtray. In many cases, even cryptids that may seem to ...
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• Tony Dunnell
Why Do So Many Old Photos Include Empty Chairs?
W.S. Gilbert, the English dramatist and one half of the Victorian-era theatrical partnership Gilbert and Sullivan, once said, “It isn’t so much what’s on the table that matters, as what’s on the chairs.” Wise words indeed, though in the case of early photography, it wasn’t s...
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• Kristina Wright
Why Are Theater Seats Almost Always Red?
You may not have clocked the seats the last time you went to an old movie theater or playhouse, but there’s a good chance they were red. In many theaters, row after row of crimson seats stretch toward the stage or screen, creating a familiar backdrop before the show even beg...
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• Tony Dunnell
The Strangest Ways the Postal Service Has Delivered Mail
Now that the future has finally arrived and robots are delivering mail through the streets of major cities, it might seem — to some of us older folks, at least — that things can’t get much stranger. But the U.S. Postal Service has always found innovative solutions to ensure ...
Ruins of Montmajour, 1888 #vangogh #vincentvangogh
Road in Provence, 1868 #romanticism #paulcezanne
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Remembering 9/11
Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Stars. Just stars. Walking back from a meeting at school this evening, the kid and I looked up at the sky, as always. But it was … different. What was that behind the high branches of an Oak tree? A star or an — no, it couldn’t be an airplane. There […]
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Year of the Cockroach
Meta suspended a San Francisco queer bar's Instagram. India ordered GitHub to delete a messaging app's source code. US prosecutors charged a man over a phone running GrapheneOS. Each time the target moves further down the stack, fewer people can route around it.
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What to know about Trump’s proposed $5,000 payouts
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The president has pledged direct payments to Americans several times since returning to office.
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Jimmy Kimmel says he dropped Talarico interview from broadcast after FCC pressure
ABC has been in a months-long feud with the FCC and its chair, Trump appointee Brendan Carr.
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Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg Put on 'Leave of Absence'
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Mullenweg, co-founder of Wordpress, wrote in a company-wide Slack channel on Wednesday that board members "conspired" behind his back to vote to put him on leave.
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‘That was all secret’: the ‘gay mole’ who fought the BBC to show the first queer kiss on kids’ TV
Everyone thinks Byker Grove broke the taboo in 1994, but another teen drama got there first. Here’s the astonishing story of Two of Us, which put a gay relationship on UK screens – and was the original Heartstopper
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Here’s Your First Look at the Titular Talking Ape in ‘The People V. Gorilla Grodd’
Plus, what's this about Barbara Crampton on 'Dexter: Resurrection?'
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Scientists say August was Earth's hottest month they've measured
The European climate service Copernicus said the Earth just sweltered through its hottest month on record in August. Scientists said the heat surge is mostly due to human-caused climate change.
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San Francisco Orders Meta to Stop ‘Allowing’ AI Child Abuse Ads
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The City Attorney’s Office has asked Meta to explain how the harmful ads repeatedly ran on Facebook and Instagram. The company claims the ads are not under the city’s jurisdiction.
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‘Killmonger Locs’ Are Everywhere in Video Games. This Artist Is Sick of It
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The “Black Panther” villain’s hairstyle has become a default for Black video game characters because it’s easy to code. Danielle Udogaranya is changing that.