Looking at the illustrations Alice and Martin Provensen did for the Iliad and the Odyssey in 1956 and taking pleasure in noting how diverse they made that world. Everyone bitching about the new movie’s casting is more racist than a children’s book publicist in *1956*
Revolutionary British artist David Hockney dies aged 88
this might be the best headline i’ve ever read
Bradford painter whose sun-kissed visions of California broke world records at auction has died
David Hockney, the iconic British painter who cast a revolutionary gaze across 20th-century art, has died aged 88.
He made his name as a pop artist during the swinging 60s and was perhaps best known for his paintings of swimming pools that helped define the Los Angeles aesthetic. Works such as A Bigger Splash and Portrait of an Artist (Pool With Two Figures) depicted hedonistic scenes of love, lust and loss taking place below the city’s sun-soaked skies. Continue reading...
BREAKING: New experimental archaeology research shows that domestic felines first introduced pottery wheel technology to prehistoric civilizations
In this paper, I demonstrate that human technological advancement from the Egyptian pyramids to the internet is entirely due to cats
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Unsolicited writing advice, no. 632:
Writing is communicating. It’s sometimes hard to remember that, especially when in the throes of creating a complex metaphor, but it’s worth reminding yourself occasionally that you’re trying to convey a thought, not impress an examiner.
