by | Apr 5, 2016 | Culture Music Art
from The New York Times Why Mapplethorpe Still Matters By HOLLAND COTTER LOS ANGELES — In a midcareer self-portrait, Robert Mapplethorpe depicted himself as a devil, with a bullwhip for a tail. But he ended up on the side of the angels. In 1989, a traveling survey of...
by | Apr 4, 2016 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from the Richmond Times-Dispatch My Life: Imparting life lessons among 10th-grade teacher’s favorite tasks by Christina Grande CHRISTINA GRANDE When I was in third grade, I dressed up as a teacher for Halloween. My mom sprayed my jet-black hair gray (with...
by | Apr 2, 2016 | Culture Music Art
from WIRED Superstar Architect Zaha Hadid Is Dead at 65 Zahad Hadid in her London office in 1985. CHRISTOPHER PILLITZ/GETTY IMAGES ZAHA HADID, ONE of architecture’s biggest stars, has passed away at age 65. According to the website of the Iraqi-born, London-based...
by | Mar 29, 2016 | Culture Music Art
from The Guardian Science and superheroes: how close are we to creating real superpowers? As Marvel’s Deadpool hits screens we ask: with three out of five fictional superheroes owing their powers to science, will we ever have real superpowers? by Damien Walter...
by | Mar 26, 2016 | Culture Music Art
from Quanta Magazine Mathematicians Discover Prime Conspiracy A previously unnoticed property of prime numbers seems to violate a longstanding assumption about how they behave. By Erica Klarreich Zim + Teemo for Quanta Magazine Two mathematicians have uncovered a...
by | Mar 25, 2016 | Culture Music Art
from The Telegraph Colouring-in craze causes pencil shortages The craze for adult colouring-in has pencil factories working overtime to meet demand By Senay Boztas and Colin Freeman Different colours of pencil Photo: Alamy A Scottish illustrator has been credited...
