They’re all featured in “Apeshit”–a music video dropped this past weekend during Beyoncé and JAY-Z Carter’s tour. The video introduced fans to Everything is Love, a collaborative album celebrating black identity and fame in 2018 America. “Apeshit” was filmed inside the Louvre museum in front of statutes like “The Great Sphinx of Tanis” and paintings […]
Why on earth did Julia Child collect 5,000 cookbooks?
Today, it’s probably easiest to picture Julia Child like this–towering over a stove, whipping up culinary delights, and peppering her half-hour television show with her delightful humor. Now firmly an American culinary icon, she remains popular through media like Dan Aykroyd’s SNL parody or the cooking blog/book/film Julie & Julia. But what about Julia Child’s […]
Why on earth did Donald Judd build an art museum in a desert in the middle of nowhere?
For minimalist artist Donald Judd, the middle of nowhere in the Chihuahuan desert was the perfect backdrop for Judd and his contemporaries’ brand of large-scale modernist sculptural art. Pictured above are Judd’s 15 Untitled Works in Concrete, which greet visitors to the Chinati Foundation and Marfa, Texas. These larger-than-human installations, which stretch for more than […]
Why on earth is an English suffragette’s grave in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia?
In front of the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia lies the grave of Sylvia Pankhurst, one of the most famous English suffragettes. At 74, Pankhurst moved to Ethiopia at the invitation of Emperor Haile Selassie. Why is Pankhurst’s final resting place approximately 6,700 miles from her birthplace? And why did she receive a […]
How on earth would a 17th century social climber use this tiny, handmade book to meet English royalty?
“A New Yeer’s Guift for the Right Honorable and Vertuous Lord my Lord Sidney of the Hand Writing and Limming of Mee Esther Inglis the first of January, 1606 ” *(transcript) Have you ever wanted to be part of a closed social group? Did you make a book to win over the queen bee? If […]
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