Warning: Colossal spoilers ahead!

Despite the fact that the series received a barrage of terrible reviews, I sat down a watched all five episodes of The Idol. My first impression: The show should have been called Lily-Rose Depps Butt in Various Outfits While The Weeknd Gets Increasingly Sweaty and Coked Up.

Not only is this title catchier, it properly reflects what we see for most of the series. Theres indeed a ridiculous amount of close-up shots of Lily-Rose Depps barely covered butt during the series, to the point that it becomes just absurd. The analytical part of me wondered: Is there a comment about the music industry in these shots or is it just director Sam Livingston just being the perv that he is?

Its most likely both. The Idol is about industry slavery as seen by people who actually exploit industry slaves.

Interesting fact: The Idol was originally directed by Amy Seimetz who had already completed about 80% of filming. Judging and perspective. However, she was fired and replaced with Sam Livingston who rewrote and refilmed the entire thing. The result: Lily-Rose Depps Butt in Various Outfits While TheWeeknd Gets Increasingly Sweaty and Coked Up.

Those who hired Sam Livingston knew exactly what they were getting. The director is mostly known for creating Euphoria, a teen drama thats just, like, terrible, for so many reasons. In my article about Euphoria, I wondered why a 37-year-old man would dream up and put on film so many extreme sex scenes involving minors. Some commentators answered that Livingston had no ill motives and that he was simply reflecting youth culture.

However, with the release of The Idol, many finally realized that there was something off with this guy.

Scientists Find That Dolphins Use Baby Talk With Their Calves

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Humans are no strangers to baby talk. Parents will often speak in a higher pitched voice as well as talking slower and simpler to their children to help immerse them in human speech. This is because babies respond to our pitch and visual cues, even if they cannot understand language yet. Apparently, humans are not the only ones who do this either. New research has found that dolphins also change their vocalization when communicating with their young, producing their own kind of baby talk.

To arrive at this conclusion, scientists studied data from wild bottlenose dolphins that was collected over a period of 34 years. Just as humans call each other by their names, every dolphin has a unique whistle. However, when mother dolphins whistled in the vicinity of their calves, researchers found that these calls were at a higher frequency and with a wider range, which is very similar to human baby talk.

This prompted scientists to believe that dolphins alter their vocalization for the same reason humans do: to immerse their young in dolphin communication. Just like humans, dolphins mature and develop slowly, and spend a long time with their caregiver. Since dolphin vocalizations are also extremely complex, it probably takes a significant amount of practice for the calves to learn.

While these findings strongly suggest mother dolphins have some form of child-directed communication, it is not absolutely certain. If it does turn out to be true, however, it suggests even more similarities between humans and dolphins despite having evolved so distantly from one another.

h/t: [Psychology Today]

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10 Pegboard Ideas To Help You Organize Every Part of Your Home

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Many of us would like a more organized home. But where do you start? With so many storage solutions and organization systems available, the choices seem endless. If youre feeling overwhelmed by both your clutter and the decision-making process, theres one simple material that will help you in a variety of places: pegboards.

A pegboard is a perforated hardboard that is drilled with evenly spaced holes. The holes can accept hooks or pegs which allows you to hang items or install shelves on them. This makes them an excellent storage solution for keeping your home tidy. Pegboards will enable you to take things off the floor or shelves (vital if you have a small space) and move them to the wall. Because they are displayed on a flat board, things are much easier to find.

Beyond the practical application, pegboards can add a decorative element to your space. They are available in various sizes, shapes, and colors, allowing you to complement the style of your home. And if youre interested in customizing it even more, you could paint it, add stencils, or cover it in wrapping paper and then punch out the holes.

Pegboards are easily adjustable, and you can move and change them depending on your needs. Scroll down for 10 pegboard ideas you can use to spruce up your space.

Pegboards allow you to organize your space in a way that's both practical and aesthetically pleasing. Here are 10 pegboard ideas that will show you the possibilities.

Admit it, youve kept secrets from your partner.

Hey, its okay!

Weve all done it!

Its just the way the world works

And some fine folks on AskReddit went on the record and shared the secrets they say theyd never tell their partners.

Lets get scandalous!

Mother-in-law.

Her mother was interfering in our marriage constantly.

I had an appointment with a lawyer to talk over options for divorce because I couldnt stand it anymore.

Then her mother d**d suddenly. Heart attack.

After the funeral, things got betterand here we are now married for 3 decades.

She doesnt need to know.

Knew it was coming.

I knew you were going to propose.

You left an email up on the computer where you sent a ring to a friend asking her if I will like it. I immediately close the email and went on about my day. We went on the 2 week long trip to Hawaii. One of the days you told me to dress up and I wore this cute white summer dress.

I still remember the way you looked at me. You looked at peace. We drove up the coast to the beach your friend recommended. As soon as we pull in it dawns on you that this isnt a private beach. Its pure madness. People everywhere. I saw the look of panic on your face.

I squeezed your arm and said lets keep driving. We grabbed dinner at a mom and pop place...

Wedding gifts can get tricky.

And they can get even trickier when people getting married are from different cultures.

And this guy wants to know if hes wrong for the stance hes taken about his brothers upcoming wedding.

Read his story below and see what you think.

AITA for talking my family out of giving my future SIL our traditional wedding gift and risk being uninvited?

My family is Asian while my future SIL is white. I dont have a problem with interracial relationships as we have several members of our extended family who married other races. In fact, Im currently in a serious relationship with a woman who is also white.

My GF is wonderful and loves trying new things that my culture has to offer. Some things she loves, other things she likes, and she down right h**es some things. The main point is that she tries them whether its music, food, or traditions. My future SIL is the complete opposite.

She rarely comes to family dinner because she doesnt like the smell of our food. She doesnt join in our celebrations because its so different. For example the lunar new year is a huge celebration for us and she calls it a fake new year we made up just to party.

She and my brother are having their wedding soon and surprise, she didnt want any of our culture in it. It got to the point that my parents almost refused to go. We had to have a huge...

Those of us who are avid science fiction fans hear things like giant hole opens up and immediately think its definitely a portal, maybe to the bad place.

Scientists, though, say that not only is this not the first time this has happened, theyre not really all that concerned about it, either.

The recently discovered coronal hole is large enough that 20 Earths could disappear inside of it.

While these formations usually appear near the Suns poles, this one is a bit different as it appeared near the equator. This could mean well be able to see some pretty cool auroras from Earth, since the hole opening will likely cause the Suns particles to shoot across the solar system.

Photo Credit: NOVA

If youve enjoyed any of the light shows across the US recently, which were the result of a severe geomagnetic storm that was also a r...

Are you a fan of weird facts?

I mean, REALLY weird facts?

Then youre in the right place!

Because these folks on AskReddit were nice enough to share the weirdest facts they know.

Lets see what they had to say!

Cool!

The word sheriff comes from the old English shire reeve.

Shire was a rural county, and a reeve was a tax collector whose duties gradually expanded to law enforcement.

Having fun.

Bees like to play.

Scientists put bees in a box thing under stress free conditions with a few wooden round balls scattered about to see what would happen.

There are videos of this experiment, and the bees just climb all over these wooden spheres, rolling them around happily. Its the cutest thing.

Impressive.

Hippos cant swim and also arent buoyant.

If they need to travel in deep water, they hold their breath and sink to the bottom and run along the ground.

All about animals.

Weirdest animals facts that I know:

Dolphins use toxic pufferfish to get high.

There are more than 1.4 million bugs for each person on the planet.

Even after having its head taken off a cockroach can still live for up to a week.

A garden snail has around 14000 teeth.

The giant pacific octopus has blue blood, nine brains and three hearts.

Hippo sweat is blood red.

Reindeer eyes turn blue during the wi...

Ahhhh, the good old days of the Internet.

When it seemed like being online was like being in the Wild West and there was an anything goes mentality.

Lets revisit the old days and hear from AskReddit users about things that were all the rage online and are now forgotten.

Back in my day

Search engines before Google existed.

Alta Vista, Lycos, Web Crawler

Click, click, click

During the early days of the web, when most websites werent plastered with advertisingwebsite view counters.

Poke me.

Poking people on Facebook.

I had a friend that poked me and I never noticed the notification. He d**d.

I now have this unreturned poke as a reminder that Ill never be able to poke them back.

Forums galore.

Forums.

There used to be so many, incredibly active and dedicated forums.

It was fun.

IMDb had the best message boards back in the day.

Chatting with your internet friends around the globe about every nuance in your fave movie.

Man I miss that. Reddit is close, but nothing beats t...

To raise awareness of her native language, 16-year-old Emma "https://www.openculture.com/2021/04/watch-preciously-rare-footage-of-paul-mccartney-recording-blackbird-at-abbey-road-studios-1968.html"> The Beatles 1968 classic Blackbird in the Mikmaq language, an Eastern Algonquian language spoken by nearly 11,000 in Canada and the United States. A member of the Eskasoni First Nation, the Nova Scotia student sang lyrics that were painstakingly translated by Katani Julian, a teacher who works in language revitalization. Julian told WBUR. My language is very different from other ones. Theres a lot of syllables in ours. And theres a lot of long words that translate into something really easy in English.

You can find the lyrics below and the song above.

Putliskiej wapinintoq
Kinamasi telayjatimk
tel pitawsin
eskimatimusipnek nike mnjasin

Putliskiej wapinintoq
Ewlapin nike nmiteke
tel pkitawsin
eskimatimusipnek nike seyasin

Putliskiejlayjasi
tan wasatek poqnitpaqiktuk

Putliskiejlayjasi
tan wasatek poqnitpaqiktuk

Putliskiej wapinintoq
Kinamasi telayjatimk
tel pitawsin

eskimatimusipnek nike mnjasin
eskimatimusipnek nike mnjasin
eskimatimusipnek nike mnjasin

Boo-dull-ees-kee-edge wobbin-in-toq
Kee-na-ma-see dell-I-jaw-dimk
dell-bit-ow-sin
ess-gum-mud-dum-oo-sup-neg nike mn-jaw-sin

Boo-dull-ees-kee-edge wobbin-in-toq
ew-la-bin nike num-mid-deh-geh
dell-bit-ow-sin
ess-gum-mud-dum-oo-sup-neg say-ya-sin

Boo-dull-ees-kee-edge, lie-jaw-see
don wassa-deg poq-nit-baq-ik-tuk

Boo-dull-ees-kee-edge, lie-jaw-see
don wassa-deg poq-nit-baq-ik-tuk

Boo-dull-ees-kee-edge wobbin-in-toq
Kee-na-ma-see dell-I-jaw-dimk
dell-bit-ow-sin

ess-gum-mud-dum-oo-sup-neg nike mn-jaw-sin
ess-gum-mud-dum-oo-sup-neg nike mn-jaw-sin
ess-gum-mud-dum-oo-sup-neg nike mn-jaw-sin

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People in relationships have all kinds of issues and money can definitely be one of them.

Especially if one person in a union does some shady business without your permission.

So is this guy wrong for how he reacted to his wife?

Take a look and see what you think.

AITA for telling my wife I would open a separate account if she didnt get our money back?

I 39M have been married to my wife 36F for twelve years. We have no children, but we do have a cat and a dog who we consider to be our children.

My wife has a sister M 37F who has made very poor financial choices and is now heavily in debt. She refuses to get a job and instead jumps from on MLM or get rich quick scam to the next, sponging off of relatives to make ends meet.

Both me and my wife work full-time. We each have separate accounts that we use for our fun money for hobbies or whatever we want. We earn almost the same amount of money, with me being a little higher, so I contribute 60% and she contributes 40% to make things fair and also so we each have about the same amount of fun money.

We also have a joint checking and savings account that we use for the household bills and household emergency fund (like when the water heater flooded the basement in the middle of the night). Both of us have access to the joint accounts, and if we need to use it, it is...

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LAppel de la Lumire (The Call of the Light) is a modest but illuminating exhibition charting the expansive oeuvre of Mildred Thompson (19362003), an African American feminist artist whose eclectic

Almost nothing drives me crazier in life than a person who is really stupid and is looked upon as really smart.

You see it all the time on social media and it can be infuriating because you

Come to think of it, you see it a lot in politics, too, which isnt too surprising

And today, were going to hear from folks about idiots who are treated like geniuses.

Lets see what they had to say!

Oh, boy

Dr. Phil.

Hes a horrible person. He uses people who are in emotional crisis to make a ton of money.

Of course, a lot of his guests are pretty light in the intellectual department as well.

What a guy!

Simon Cowell.

Ironically, he spends so much of his time seeking talent when he has very little himself. While he knows the music industry, his father got him the job that brought him into it at EMI. Even left that job only to come back when he couldnt make it on his own.

He knows virtually nothing about music itself, or singing, instruemnts or anything really technical about anything that goes on around him.

While his comments about vulnerable, talentless people used to be a draw now that sort of thing is frowned upon it turns out that when hes not being a prick, hes boring as hell.

He was also stupid enough to believe that a cosmetic surgeon could make him not look like hes over 60 when, in r...

Kids today, huh?

They dont seem to have a lot of patience for things that they arent interested inand they can also be pretty selfish if were being honest about it.

But did this woman take things too far when she grounded her teenage daughter for not gardening with her?

Take a look at what she had to say.

AITA for grounding my daughter by not bonding with me on gardening?

I (47f) live with my husband and my youngest daughter (15f). My oldest daughter (20f) no longer lives with us and I feel a bit lonely, since she used to be my partner.

We did everything together, we liked the same things and we were best friends. I love my youngest daughter equally, I dont have a favorite child, but it has always been difficult for me to bond with her, because were too different.

My youngest daughter clearly prefers my husband, given that just like my oldest daughter, they are best friends: they do everything together, they like the same things, and they often bond over games, music, and anime.

Ive tried to bond more deeply with my daughter, but I dont understand her tastes, and when were alone we hardly ever have anything to talk about. My husband doesnt see it as a problem, and he often says each parent with its own daughter, but it doesnt seem right to me.

I recently decided to build a garden and asked my daughter to help me,...

When you think of a city with a bustling art scene, Philadelphia may not immediately spring to mind. But its abundance of art schools, a growing number of art galleries, over 4,000 murals, and comparatively cheap rents make Philly a thriving art town. Many artists here are inspired by the citys history as a center of industry and craft hence the profusion of organizations like the Fabric Workshop and Museum, the Center for Art in Wood, and the Clay Studio. If youre in town, take a break from our sweltering, swampy summer air and taste a bit of the artistic wonder Philadelphia has to offer.

Terence Nacne: Swarm

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The Studio Museum in Harlem has cut ties with David Adjaye after three women accused the British-Ghanaian architect of sexual assault and harassment. The institution, which enlisted Adjaye to design its long-anticipated new home on West 125th Street, will work with executive architect Cooper Robertson and Adjaye Associatess New York team, with Adjaye himself stepping back from the project, according to the New York Times.

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A word to the wise: you gotta be careful when it comes to your privacy at all times and you definitely have to keep it in mind when youre at work.

Because you may think that youre using software that is totally private but if theres a chink in the armor, you might pay a big price if your boss spies on what youre writing to your co-workers.

And one woman warned folks about Microsoft Teams in a video that went viral on TikTok.

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The woman talked about what bosses can actually access on Microsoft Teams and said that its not the norm that theyd look into your messages on that platform.

She said, This is for like really toxic situations. Normall...

No. 382 of the Poly S. Tyrene Memorial Maritime Museum (2023),  painted, salvaged plastic, ink, wax, 12.5 x 8 x 3.5 inches

In the 1860s, the U.S. government introduced kerosene as an alternative for lighting lamps. Whale oil had previously dominated the market but was unsustainable given the appalling number of animals killed in order to provide power. The country quickly transitioned to fossil fuels, swapping one harmful and extractive practice for another. While whaling had its economic implications, it also birthed a largely nautical art form known as scrimshaw, or engravings in bone or ivory.

Artist Duke Riley is attuned to this history and its modern-day implications. He gathers laundry detergent jugs, flip-flops, and bottles that once held household products once they wash up near beaches and carves incisive allegories and ornamentation into their surfaces. Painted in a warm, grainy beige, the scavenged waste mimics the whale bones traditional to scrimshaw while the artists signature wit emerges through the contemporary narratives of oil barons or marine creatures carrying human trash.

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Activists in Mexico City are celebrating a hard-fought victory after the citys Interim Mayor Mart Batres announced late last month that officials will not be removing a feminist guerilla artwork from the capitals main boulevard. The unsanctioned anti-monument, as it is known, honors the countrys victims of femicide and disappearance and replaced a Christopher Columbus monument that was dismantled in 2020. In the years since, city officials have proposed alternative statuary options, some of which have since been...

As we tumble down the rabbit hole of daily current events, the combined phenomenon of doom-scrolling and media fatigue makes it difficult for us to extend our empathy and attention to every conceivable issue especially when those issues become our realities rather than abstracted sentences we read through and cast aside. Founded in 2012, the Economic Hardship Reporting Project (EHRP), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to humanize inequality through journalism, grapples with this very issue as affiliated writers engage with topics ranging from culture and labor to housing and education to mobilize readers into questioning the stat...

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Auto Experts Create Worlds Lowest Car You Can Actually Drive

Photo: Screenshot from YouTube

How low can you go? That's the question this outrageously low car seems to answer. Carmagheddon, an Italy-based car modifier collective, set their minds on building the worlds lowest drivable car. The result is a tongue-in-cheek creation that tests what makes a car, well, a car.

To create this very low low-rider, the team of Cocchi RudiMatteo Marzetti and Nicola Guadagnincut a Fiat Panda in half. They then turned the upper part into a hilarious yet impressive vehicle that can work like any other vehicle on the road. To make this project come true, the designers installed a go-kart-sized vehicle frame within the Fiat Panda. Under the hood of the caror what remains of itthey added tiny wheels that are just tall enough to keep the metal from grazing the road.

So how do you drive this extremely low low-rider? Carmagheddon added a steering wheel that's closer to a video game controller. Whoever is driving the vehicle must crawl to get inside and stay on their knees or on their side for the whole ride. Looking out the windshield doesn't look like an option, as the conductor in the test rides is seen looking at the road through his phone, placed on the bottom of the vehicle.

The modified Fiat Panda was tested on both gravel roads and concrete streets, and it is a testament to the designers' vision that it drives smoothly, though slowly, on both. As ingenious as the result is, the small automobile can't help but look like a vehicle submerged in the asphalt or a car carcass on the loose.

If you want to take a closer look at their building process, scroll down to watch two videos from Carmagheddon about how this low-rider came to be. To stay up to date with their wild creations, you can follow them on Instagram.

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Contorting Forms combines, in clever and engaging ways, historical works by Masakazu Horiutia pioneering figure of abstract sculpture in Japanwith recent works by Motohiro Tomii that feature humble,

Incredible Time-Lapse Photo Captures Hour-Long Lightning Storm in One Shot

Amateur astrophotographer Uur kizler not only loves capturing the stars but is also fascinated by the weather. He's constantly keeping tabs on upcoming storms, and so when a forecast predicted a massive lightning storm, he grabbed his gear and headed out on his balcony. In the end, his diligence was paid back tenfold by the stunning composite photo he came away with.

Over the course of 50 minutes, he was able to capture images of lightning bolts striking the water in Mudanya, Turkey. He then took 30 of his best frames and merged them together to create an amazing composite photo. While kizler clearly stated that the photo was a composite when he posted the image on Instagram, he said that many people still believe that all the lightning struck at once.

That would be a beautifulif not frighteningevent, but that wasn't the case. kizler actually published many of the individual photographs he used on YouTube and his blog. The final photo is a testament to his artistry and creativity, as well as his technical ability to seamlessly pull together all the photographs in an aesthetically pleasing composition.

During a lightning storm in Turkey, astrophotographer Uur kizler captured many stunning images to create a composite photo.

Check out more of the individual lightning shots that were in...

The Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM) is pleased to announce that Yuan Goang-ming has been selected as the sole artist representing Taiwan in Venice, 2024. Abby Chen, Head of Contemporary Art and Senior Associate Curator at San Franciscos Asian Art Museum, will curate the exhibition.

Born in 1965, Yuan received his masters degree in media art from the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in 1997. He is now Professor at the Department of New Media Art, Taipei National University of the Arts. His digital photography series City Disqualified...

Featuring 73 screenprints and lithographs made between 1980 and 2010, and drawing from both the collection of the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio and the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, Estampas de la Raza: Contemporary Prints from the Romo Collection and Royal Chicano Air Force highlights a vital but largely overlooked segment of contemporary American art, celebrating the collaboration and creativity of artists and print workshops in California and Texas.

Organized thematically into five sections, this exhibition at the Crocker Art Museum explores universal themes and key aspects of the Latinx experience: the identity of individuals striving to define themselves; the Chicano Movements struggle to achieve economic, political, and personal equality; the tradition, memory, and culture of everyday life; iconic figures that represent social and political causes; and the influence of Latinx culture on contemporary American life and art.

Many of the artists in Estampas de la Raza were inspired by the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 1970s and draw on artistic traditions ranging from Mexican printmaking to mural painting, as well as other sources such as folk art, Pop art, and graffiti. The breadth of art displayed proves that Latinx art and artists are far from homogenous, and the variety of work highlights the many facets of Latinx and Chicanx culture. Yet what unites...

AI Visualizes Drivers Based on Car Brands, Reveals Stereotypes Pushed by Technology

Recent experiments with AI generators have highlighted the incredible bias that exists in the technology. Recently, the automotive website Rerev decided to conduct its own test on the stereotypes pushed by AI. To do so, they asked ChatGPT to describe the average owner of 10 popular car brands. Then, they used those descriptions as prompts in Midjourney to generate an image of these car owners. The results are interesting and eye-opening about how drivers are perceived by AI.

The first obvious issue is that AI only generated images of men, highlighting a strong gender bias in the automotive world. Each car owner had their nationality tied to the origins of the brand. So, the Ferrari owner is Italian, while the Honda and Toyota owners are Japanese. These nationalities were selected outside of any specific description written by ChatGPT.

In the case of Volkswagen, AI solely focused on the brand's association with van life by depicting a man with a more bohemian look. This choice clearly overlooks different models of Volkswagens and their owners, who likely live more conservative lifestyles.

Similarly, the Chevrolet and Ford owners both have a rugged, All-American look to them. While these American brands are certainly connected to working-class culture, there are also plenty of owners who live in urban settings and don't have a pick-up truck.

As with all of these AI series, it's important to think deeply about why the technology gave specific results and what this means about our own personal bias.

This is how AI perceives the drivers of 10 common car brands.

Volkswagen

While wandering down the path of wonder, I briefly escape the world of separation and enter the world of unity.

It bears repeating that what makes life livable is our ability our willingness to move through the world wonder-smitten by reality. The most wonderful thing about wonder is that it knows no scale, no class, no category it can be found in a geranium or in a galaxy, in the burble of a brook or in the Goldberg Variations. A leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars, wrote Walt Whitman, eternal patron saint of wonder.

Wonder, after all, is what we look for when we are looking and the richest recompense of learning how to look. G.K. Chesterton knew this when, in his wonderful meditation on the dandelion and the meaning of life, he observed that the object of the creative life, of the full life, is to dig for the submerged sunrise of wonder. Dylan Thomas knew it in the recognition that children in wonder watching the stars, is the aim and the end. Rachel Carson knew it when she insisted that the greatest gift a parent can give a child is a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things that...

3,900 Pages From Paul Klees Personal Notebooks Are Now Online

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The 20th century ushered in many significant art movements. One of the most influential that emerged from this period was Bauhaus. Originating in Germany at a school of the arts, this movement dominated paintings, graphics, architecture, and even interiors in European art throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Swiss-born artist Paul Klee was one of its early pioneers, teaching at Bauhaus for 10 years alongside other icons like Wassily Kandinsky. The Zentrum Paul Kleea museum in Bern, Switzerlandis sharing 3,900 pages from Klee's personal notebooks which display some of the detailed notes he made for his classes.

These journals include hand-written entries in German and numerous sketches and diagrams covering topics like color theory and design. Presumably, these notes were reworked into the lectures Klee gave at Bauhaus during his long tenure. While momentous during their own time, his essays on modern art are still regarded as an invaluable source of the principles of modern art. In fact, his lectures were even collected and published in two volumes titled The Thinking Eye and The Nature of Nature.

The writings which compose Paul Klee's theory of form production and pictorial form have the same importance and the same meaning for modern art as had Leonardo's writings which composed his theory of p...

Craigs closet (2023), granite and bronze, 90 x 57 x 28 1/2 inches. Installed in New York City AIDS Memorial Park. Photos by Daniel Greer, Jim Hodges, courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery, shared with permission

In 1981, the emergency room at St. Vincents Hospital in Manhattan began to see an influx of young gay and bisexual men with startling weight loss, pneumonia, rare infections, and compromised immunity. Two years later, the HIV virus was identified as the cause of AIDS, which quickly reached epidemic proportions, and St. Vincents opened the firstand largestAIDS ward on the East Coast.

In 2016, a public park became the home to the New York City AIDS Memorial, honoring the more than 100,000 residents who died of the disease, as well as those who lobbied for medical research and access to drugs and fought discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community. Marking a continuation of the memorials public art program, a new sculpture by Jim Hodges is both a heartfelt ode to a young New Yorker who succumbed to the illness and an invitation to consider complex histories and personal and collective memories.

Craigs closet, a granite and bronze work that stands like a monolith in the middle of the park, considers the personal, metaphorical, and physical significance of the ubiquitous storage space. It is an exact replica of the bedroom closet belonging to musician Craig Ducote, who shared a home with Hodges unt...

The Warhol Foundation today announced the forty-nine recipients of its spring 2023 grants. The foundation will award more than $4 million to arts organizations and institutions scattered across twenty

Richard Kallweit: Early Works showcases sculptures, paintings, and drawings made in the 1970s and 80s. Kallweit, one of the original Criss-Cross artists, presents rigorous mathematical concepts in

Mire Lees monuments gush, gape, weep, and macerate. Drawing inspiration from body horror, hentai, scatology, and vorarephilia, the South Korean sculptor fabricates hyperbolically visceral forms that

Television distorts, mocks and marginalizes fat people. Fat characters are reduced to caricatures whose stories and identities arent developed and dont matter. In one study by Tzoutzou et al., all 36 compliments about appearance given to women were for thin women. Not one positive message was included for a woman of an average or overweight body type. For men, the same pattern was found: only one overweight character received a positive message. 

These TV shows tell the audience that external beauty only resides in thinness and excludes anyone who deviates from this definition of beauty. Viewers can internalize this thin ideal, which in turn can make it difficult for the audience to feel good about themselves, especially if their body doesnt fit this body standard. Seeing the treatment of fat people on TV can affect how viewers think about their own bodies, especially if their body type doesnt fit the thin ideal.

Bigger Bodies, Smaller Roles

Not only is the representation of fat people overwhelmingly negative, but fat bodies are underrepresented on TV shows.

You Can Attach This Tent to Your Paddle Board to Sleep on the Water

From gazing at the stars to being surrounded by a quiet calm, there's a lot to enjoy about camping. We usually think of sleeping on land, when we talk about camping, but BAJAO is offering a new way to experience the outdoors. The German brand has created an all-in-one tent that can be affixed to your paddle board so that you can sleep on the water and not get wet.

Called BAJAO Cabin, this innovative product fits any paddle board longer than 11 feet 6 inches and comes with stabilizing pipes so that the tent remains safely attached. While you can't bring this tent onto waterways, you can use it to sleep on calm bodies of water. All you have to do is use a pump to inflate the pipes, a process that takes under two minutes.

In addition to providing shelter from the sun, this tent also includes a barrier to keep insects out. And if you're ever in the mood to look at the moon, you can remove the flysheet on top and still have a transparent layer to deter bugs. BAJAO Cabin also features a durable and waterproof floor made from 150D Oxford polyester fabric. This makes the tent usable for water, but also on other surfaces like mud, sand, or rock. When it's not in use, the tent can be packed down into an easy-to-carry backpack.

BAJAO's all-in-one tent is currently running a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo, where you can purchase it for the early-bird price of $412.

German brand BAJAO is sharing a new way to experience the outdoors.

They've designed an all-in-one tent that can be taken onto the water.

Tauba Auerbach (previously) wants to be somewhere that isnt a hard edge, within a space that mimics the instability of The Wave Organ. Embedded within a jetty of the San Francisco Bay, the sculpture was created by Peter Richards and George Gonzalez in 1986 and captures the sounds of waves as they crash into and fill the pipes, emitting a musical mix of gurgling and gushing noises as the tide changes. The work is designed to highlight the acoustic irregularities of Earths elements and is also one of Auerbachs favorite locations in their native San Francisco.

In a new episode of Art21s 11th season, Bodies of Knowledge, which premiered in late June, Auerbach visits the instrument and explains their interest in natural patterns and processes, physics, and mathematic principles. They harbor a profound curiosity and desire to understand the complex systems that undergird life, many of which they interpret as swirling marbled paper, spontaneous tessellated drawings in marker, and writhing beaded sculptures that evoke biological forms like the rigid composition of a sea sponge.