Paul McMahon, Have a Nice Day, 1977. The first time the artist Paul McMahon told anyone that the Goddess had appeared to him in a vision and informed him that he was the king of the universe, the person he was telling “looked like he was going to punch me,” McMahon said last weekend.
The Crazy Stories Behind 6 Of The World’s Rarest Colors
There’s a rare collection tucked away in the Harvard Art Museum–but not of art. It’s the Forbes Pigment Collection, a vault of more than 2,500 pigments from across the world that chemists and historians use to learn more about how artists have used materials through the centuries.
The reMarkable E Ink Tablet Is Way Too Good For Its Software (and Price)
Do you remember when everyone thought the arrival of the iPad heralded the demise of E Ink-based devices? Even yours truly far prefers the experience of reading books on the bright, full-color LCD display of the iPad Mini.
Mosaic is a game about being a cog in the machine
Mosaic, the third game from Norwegian developers Krillbite Studio, at first glance reminds of games like Inside, or similar low-poly, muted-tone puzzle-platformers.
‘Hal’: Watch The First Three Minutes Of Sundance-Bound Hal Ashby Documentary
The Sundance Film Festival’s U.S. Documentary competition is the launch pad for Hal, Amy Scott’s feature-length docu about iconoclast director Hal Ashby. Cinetic Media is aboard to sell the title at the fest, and the film premieres Monday in Park City.
Jimmy Turrell Rescued 1,000 Books and Turned Them into Art
In 2016, Newcastle-based artist Jimmy Turrell spotted a job-lot of 1,000 books on eBay and bought them on a whim. They belonged to the late father of the person who was selling them, and he later found out that they were just a day away from being thrown into a skip.
Isle of Dogs
ISLE OF DOGS tells the story of ATARI KOBAYASHI, 12-year-old ward to corrupt Mayor Kobayashi. When, by Executive Decree, all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to a vast garbage-dump called Trash Island, Atari sets off alone in a miniature Junior-Turbo Prop and flies across the river in search of his bodyguard-dog, Spots. There, with the assistance of a pack of newly-found mongrel friends, he begins an epic journey that will decide the fate and future of the entire Prefecture.