Flipping through an illustrated manuscript from the 13th century, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Jesus loved a good fart joke. That’s because the margins of these handmade devotional books were filled with imagery depicting everything from scatological humor to mythical beasts to sexually explicit satire. Though we may still get a kick out of…
Here is an oil painting from Africa in warm tropical colors. Here is an oil painting from Africa in warm tropical colors. All Heads Together 11 African painting close All Heads Together 11 African painting close All Heads Together 11 African painting close All Heads Together 11 African painting clos…
Here is an oil painting from Africa in warm tropical colors. Source: All Heads Together XI • Art Cameroon African Paintings Angu Che Walters is an artist I first encountered on Mastodon. His work combines traditional symbols and shapes with modern art, and expresses what it is to be experiencing life as a human in…
For about 4 months straight I could see what looked like a Spiral Mandela in front of my eyes…
For about 4 months straight I could see what looked like a Spiral Mandela in front of my eyes like a water mark faint but always present there in the background of my visible universe. It had light in many spectrums radiating from it’s center… Enjoy: Spiral Mandela – Texas Colors Stained Glass Studio
In a short film by Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby, two ships collide in a harbor, sending a passing sailor skyward as he contemplates the wonder and fragility of life.
CHIKUMA, Nagano Prefecture–A newly discovered letter written by feudal warlord Takeda Shingen during famous 16th-century battles against rival Uesugi Kenshin prompted a museum here to mount a fund-raising campaign to acquire it.
CHIKUMA, Nagano Prefecture–A newly discovered letter written by feudal warlord Takeda Shingen during famous 16th-century battles against rival Uesugi Kenshin prompted a museum here to mount a fund-raising campaign to acquire it.In the letter, Shingen (1521-1573), from Kai province (present-day Yamanashi Prefecture), commended the achievements of local warriors in the Battles of Kawanakajima, a series…
Masayoshi Matsumoto was working as a chemical engineer when he first learned how to make balloon animals. Matsumoto doesn’t use marker pens or tape for details on his creations: every eyeball, feather and claw is made from balloons. Inspired by wildlife photography, his menagerie of creatures includes startlingly detailed hermit crabs, baboons, ants and birds.…
The Lackawanna, NY branch of Bethlehem Steel was started in the mid 19th century as an iron forge by the Scranton brothers in a Pennsylvania town that would come to be named after them. Despite some gruesome incidents with labor strikes due to frequent pay cuts, the company prospered and became the second largest producer…
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lfM0z9cV4k[/embed] So what was so new about it? Let’s find out!
At the Metal Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, a new exhibit just opened that features an Indigenous artist’s exhibition, Royal Portrait, emphasizing the importance of Indigenous matriarchs through reimagining royal regalia and portraiture. Source: Royal Portrait: The Regality of Indigenous Women | Arts & Entertainment
“With Studio Ghibli,” says Napier, “you have a sense that, contrary to the Judeo-Christian Western point of view, humans are not necessarily the dominant creatures in the world.” It’s an ethos with arguable roots in Japan’s history of ecological disasters, and in Shintoism, the animistic folk religion of Japan, based around the faith that there…
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