Say Their Names
A New Yorker cover by Kadir Nelson.
Making by hand
Rosemary Hill: “To make objects by hand in an industrial society, to work slowly and uneconomically against the grain, is to offer, however inadvertently, a critique of that society.”
Blowhard
A New Yorker cover.
Baby’s First Resist-Story
Fresca and bink have created an alphabet book with wash-away illustrations: Baby’s First Resist-Story. A is for alternative facts.
NEA, NEH, CPB funding
A visual representation of the combined budgets of the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
From an old notebook
Alfred Appel Jr.: “The great popularity of this show suggests there is a kind of exit poll being taken at the end of the 20th century, and the vote is in favor of eros over thanatos. Matisse is everyone’s person for celebrating the simple things that all the wars and disasters of the 20th century have not obliterated from the lives of ordinary people.”
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Werner Herzog’s journey into the Chauvet cave
More from The Book of Tea
"We see only our own image in the universe — our particular idiosyncrasies dictate the mode of our perceptions."
USA Arts
Streaming shows from Channel 13
Classic Arts Showcase
Great free cable service