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From 1963, Irving Berlin's "They Say It's Wonderful" with John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and vocalist Johnny Hartman. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-8N...

Blue Moon is a Paris-based independent newsprint publication loosely dedicated to cultural figures and mysticism. Launched in 2015 by editor Leah Gudmundson, the magazine focuses on artists, writers, and musicians that are, or began on the margins; figures and harbingers of subcultural movements.

With algorithmic management, bosses have figured out new ways to evade the law and steal from workers. The Platform Work Directive gives workers and unions a whole suite of new tools to force bosses to play fair. It's not going to be easy, the technological capacity workers and unions develop,

The consolidation of power over the country’s media into the hands of a few rightfully disturbed many Americans who were worried a few powerful interests could shape the natl narrative. SNL writer Robert Smigel took dead aim at the corp media in a 1998 2-min parody called “Conspiracy Theory Rock.”

The latest announcement: Nilbar Güreş will represent Turkey at the Venice Biennale in an exhibition curated by Başak Doğa Temür artreview.com/2026-venice-...

Bunny Yeager, once heralded as the world’s prettiest photographer, had a huge influence on 20th-century pop culture. Bunny was a trailblazer whose work bucked against conservative 1950s America and helped pave the way for the feminist movement and the sexual revolution.

Trailer: "Sane Inside Insanity — The Phenomenon of Rocky Horror" Dir: Andreas Zerr tells every part of Rocky's life story, tracking its rise from the ashes as the brainchild of an out-of-work actor, through its overnight success and expansion into bigger, more ruthless theatrical territory,

Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind presents one of the most comprehensive exhibitions to date of Yoko Ono, the trailblazing artist, celebrated musician, and formidable campaigner for world peace. This remarkable retrospective celebrates key moments of Ono’s career visit.mcachicago.org/exhibitions/...

2025 marks 100 years since the invention of the photobooth in New York. A game-changer for the world of photography, photobooths became an everyday sight in cities around the world. n the 1950s and 1960s, photobooths were a common feature at fairs, shopping centres and train stations.

Deeply connected to her experiences in the water, Katie Pumphrey explores the repetition of our anxieties and fears, along with the humor we call on to swim through it all. Her work explores how our imagination plays tricks on us, especially when stress is high and the journey is far.

“At a time when many of the civil rights milestones achieved by previous generations—by our mothers and grandmothers—are being threatened or dismantled, the Driskell Prize empowers Black artists and art historians to push back,” Alison Saar noted

"for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world." Albert Camus, The Stranger.

My interview with @gwyllm.bsky.social for DoubleBlind Magazine. Enjoy! doubleblindmag.com/psychedelic-...

Ernst Haeckel’s Sublime Drawings of Flora & Fauna: The Beautiful Scientific Drawings That Influenced Europe’s Art Nouveau Movement (1889)

From 1952: The critic ponders the plight of professional painters but who, for economic or personal reasons, have little actual time to work artreview.com/john-berger-...

"Lines of Belonging" highlights artists working in four cities that have existed as centers of life, creativity, and communion for longer than the nation states in which they are presently situated, these creative practitioners offer slowness, persistence, and care as an antidote to the viral

Review: “Man Ray: When Objects Dream,” a brilliant sparkplug of a show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It explains how one American artist learned to multiply himself into a Dada-Surrealist octopus, saying yes to so many things that no one could keep count.

Review: The electrifying first sight when you emerge onto the fifth floor of the Whitney declares that the museum’s new show, “Sixties Surreal,” is not the same old same old. All the tired vocabularies have been thrown out, replaced by a mad, post-minimalist openness and pluralism.

Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893–1983) : Woman, 1934 Pastel on flocked Paper 106.7 × 71.1 cm

UnArchived: Double Bass, How Low Can You Go? On John Coltrane's 99th birthday, I've refurbished a piece about an amazing moment he made possible, with Jimmy Garrison in the spotlight. #jazz anearful.substack.com/p/unarchived...

WPFW radio is doing a Ray Charles special today .

Joan Baez (1960) © David Redfern

Painting for Andy 2006 IG - RememberXYZ_Studio

Happy birthday to Ray Charles, born on this day in 1930! A soul and R&B legend, his love for music bloomed in Georgia, blending gospel, blues, and jazz into a genre-defying sound.

The fascinating and touching story of how humanity saved the ginkgo www.themarginalian.org/2025/09/23/g...

JΛZZ HΞΛVΞN: Happy birthday to the legendary American composer and saxophonist John Coltrane September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967 ❝I’d like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.❞‬

Amphibian love songs and soundscapes (RIAFC090) 1. Night Sounds/Frogs from Myanmar (Burma) 2. Frogs Calling for Rain (Mae Hong Son, Thailand) 3. Frog Tannoy - Roi Et, Thailand 4. Kodok Solok - Frogs and bugs in Solok, West Sumatra 5. Kiromboi from Sawaku: Music Of Sarawak

With a clear focus on collaboration and connection, Tribe brings together artists, writers, and communities to exchange ideas and explore the shifting role of image-making in contemporary culture. They aim to cultivate dialogue and deepen understanding within an evolving visual landscape.

Reflected Selves: Exploring Portrait Photography’ explores the intimate exchange between photographers and their subjects, revealing how identity, emotion, and connection shape each portrait. Featuring artists devoted to capturing authenticity and presence,

Review: Celebrated as a pioneer of feminist and postcolonial literature, the Dominican-born Rhys’s vision continues to inspire a new generation of Caribbean voices today. Her work finds new life, ‘Postures: Jean Rhys in the Modern World’, an exhibition curated by Hilton Als

Everything is bigger in Texas, including the collections. CULTURED sat down with a group of the city’s collectors to talk about the works that move them, the negotiations that surprise them, and the pieces that delight (or shock) their guests. https://

Metamorphose, Fritz Winter 1944

King Harvest has finally come

Sunday film in D.C. - These films traverse Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, mapping the collision between monumental architecture and fragile humanity. The trilogy explores the violence of a system built on surveillance and alienation, while celebrating fleeting moments of tenderness and rebellion.

Callas, 1958.

Hyperallergic: 12 new and forthcoming art books are well worth adding to your list, offering insights into the decades-long practice of Nayland Blake, the curatorial vision of the late Okwui Enwezor, the artistic life of Louise Bourgeois, and more topics we’re eager to explore.

Joan Jett rocks the Mary Tyler Moore Theme (LOVE IS ALL AROUND)

Olafur Eliasson.

I included this in an earlier reply to someone else & now posting it here because it's one of my favorite of the artist's paintings and continues to be so, so relevant in the present day: Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait on the Border between Mexico & the United States, 1932

September 21, 1978: Grace Jones, New York City. 📷 Allan Tannenbaum

Transcript: That time Maureen Dowd interviewed Robert Redford at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in 2014. www.jfklibrary.org/events-and-a...

Timeline of the Sundance Institute Festival series "It means a lot to me," Redford told PEOPLE in 2005. "I've devoted so much of my life to it." His devotion created a lasting platform that continues nurturing independent voices, ensuring his cinema influence endures.

With a career spanning over 25 years, Gary Oldman is one of the most respected and recognized actors of his generation. In this interview, Oldman talks about becoming typecast as a villain in films, anonymity and public life, his role in the TV series SLOW HORSES, and much more.

On a recent rainy Wednesday night in the Lower East Side, Crabapple led a discussion and workshop with tech editor Edward Ongweso Jr and the Democratic Socialists of America Tech Action Working Group called “Artists Against the Slop Beast: How AI is destroying creative work and how to fight back!”

The Rijksmuseum’s walls, long home to paintings of everyday life, now host McQueen’s film: a reminder that ordinary spaces can conceal extraordinary brutality. To watch Occupied City here is to see Amsterdam as it is and as it was, a city living with its history in every brick and paving stone.

The “Prix de la Photographie, Paris” (P×3) promote the appreciation of photography, discover emerging talent and introduce photographers from around the world to the artistic community of Paris. px3.fr/winners/px3/...

33-yro Gay Talese flew from NY to LA to report a cover story for Esquire, the “It” magazine of the 1960s. The resulting game of cat and mouse produced what is arguably the greatest magazine profile in the annals of journalism, “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,” which ran in Esquire’s April 1966 issue.

“a cherished place, a sanctuary in Midtown Manhattan”, “a laboratory of learning, a place where the most challenging and difficult art of our time can be measured against the achievements of the immediate past”, and “an idea represented by its collection."