Dark Matter and Dark Energy by Alicia Ostriker My husband says dark matter is a reality British artist Omid Asadi carves fallen leaves. More of his works here.
Having spent his whole life grumbling, in 1949, the English essayist and critic J. B. Priestley wrote a book called Delight patiently describing all the things he had most enjoyed. One of them was going to the Rijksmuseum, in Amsterdam: Look a lot like summers in New England. Izabela Urbaniak has a beautiful series of photographs of her family summers near Lodz.
The drunks at Mindolo Dam rouse themselves at our approach. A teenager in swim trunks and a sun-bleached T-shirt puts down his plastic cup and unlocks the gate. He regards us with bloodshot eyes. “Morning, boss,” he says, angling for a tip. In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf. Jenny Zhang at My Modern Met introduces us to the photographs of Edward S. Curtis: In 1906, American photographer Edward S. Curtis was offered $75,000 by financier J. P. Morgan to produce a series on North American Indians (Native Americans) and their culture. The 20-volume work, called The North American Indian, contained over 1,500 photographs, as well as records of tribal lore and history, biographical sketches, and descriptions of traditional foods, housing, clothing, ceremonies, and customs. The photographer's goal was to document as much American Indian traditional life as possible before it disappeared. Although an extensive oral tradition remains among the tribes, Curtis's fascinating work remains the only written recorded history of the North American Indian way of life in the early 20th century. |