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- High-Tech Analysis of Ancient Scroll Reveals Plato’s Burial Site and Final HoursEven if you can name only one ancient Greek, you can name Plato. You can also probably say at least a little about him, if only some of the things humanity has known since antiquity. Until recently, of course, that qualification would have been redundant. But now, thanks to an... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: May 3, 2024 - 8:49 am
- VideoRIP Paul Auster: Hear the Master of the Postmodern Page-Turner Discuss How He Became a WriterIn the Louisiana Channel interview clip from 2017 above, the late Paul Auster tells the story of how he became a writer. Its first episode had appeared more than twenty years earlier, in a New Yorker piece titled “Why Write?”: “I was eight years old. At that moment in my... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: May 2, 2024 - 9:00 am
- Artist Draws 9 Portraits on LSD During 1950s Research ExperimentDuring the 1950s, a researcher gave an artist two 50-microgram doses of LSD (each dose separated by about an hour), and then the artist was encouraged to draw pictures of the doctor who administered the drugs. Nine portraits were drawn over the space of eight hours. We still don’t know the... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: May 2, 2024 - 8:00 am
- VideoA 5‑Hour Journey Through North Korean Entertainment: Propaganda Films, Kids’ Cartoons, Sketch Comedy & MoreOver the second half of the twentieth century, South Korea became rich, and in the first decades of the twenty-first, it’s become a global cultural superpower. The same can’t be said for North Korea: after a relatively strong start in the nineteen-fifties and sixties, its economy foundered, and in the... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: May 1, 2024 - 9:00 am
- Google Launches a New Course Called “AI Essentials”: Learn How to Use Generative AI Tools to Increase Your ProductivityThis week, Google announced the launch of Google AI Essentials, a new self-paced course designed to help people learn AI skills that can boost their productivity. Taught by Google’s AI experts, and assuming no prior knowledge of programming, the course ventures to show students how to “use AI in the real... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: May 1, 2024 - 5:45 am
- VideoAndré Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto Turns 100 This YearPeople don’t seem to write a lot of manifestos these days. Or if they do write manifestos, they don’t make the impact that they would have a century ago. In fact, this year marks the hundredth anniversary of the Manifeste du surréalisme, or Surrealist Manifesto, one of the most famous... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: April 30, 2024 - 9:00 am
- VideoBehold The Drawings of Franz Kafka (1907–1917)Runner 1907–1908 UK-born, Chicago-based artist Philip Hartigan has posted a brief video piece about Franz Kafka’s drawings. Kafka, of course, wrote a body of work, mostly never published during his lifetime, that captured the absurdity and the loneliness of the newly emerging modern world: In The Metamorphosis, Gregor transforms overnight into a... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: April 30, 2024 - 8:00 am
- VideoHow Édouard Manet Became “the Father of Impressionism” with the Scandalous Panting, Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (1863)Édouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (1863) caused quite a stir when it made its public debut in 1863. Today, we might assume that the controversy surrounding the painting had to do with its containing a nude woman. But, in fact, it does not contain a nude woman — at... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: April 29, 2024 - 9:05 am
- VideoBukowski Reads Bukowski: Watch a 1975 Documentary Featuring Charles Bukowski at the Height of His PowersIn 1973, Richard Davies directed Bukowski, a documentary that TV Guide described as a “cinema-verite portrait of Los Angeles poet Charles Bukowski.” The film finds Bukowski, then 53 years old, “enjoying his first major success,” and “the camera captures his reminiscences … as he walks around his Los Angeles neighborhood.... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: April 29, 2024 - 8:00 am
- VideoThe Origins of Anime: Watch Early Japanese Animations (1917 to 1931)Japanese animation, AKA anime, might be filled with large-eyed maidens, way cool robots, and large-eyed, way cool maiden/robot hybrids, but it often shows a level of daring, complexity and creativity not typically found in American mainstream animation. And the form has spawned some clear masterpieces from Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira to... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: April 26, 2024 - 9:00 am
- VideoWhat Would Happen If a Nuclear Bomb Hit a Major City Today: A Visualization of the DestructionOne of the many memorable details in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, placed prominently in a shot of George C. Scott in the war room, is a binder with a spine labeled “WORLD TARGETS IN MEGADEATHS.” A megadeath, writes Eric Schlosser... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: April 26, 2024 - 8:02 am
- VideoPink Floyd Plays in Venice on a Massive Floating Stage in 1989; Forces the Mayor & City Council to ResignWhen Roger Waters left Pink Floyd after 1983’s The Final Cut, the remaining members had good reason to assume the band was truly, as Waters proclaimed, “a spent force.” After releasing solo projects in the next few years, David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Richard Wright soon discovered they would never... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: April 25, 2024 - 9:00 am
- VideoInside the Beautiful Home Frank Lloyd Wright Designed for His Son (1952)Being Frank Lloyd Wright’s son surely came with its downsides. But one of the upsides — assuming you could stay in the mercurial master’s good graces — was the possibility of his designing a house for you. Such was the fortune of his fourth child David Samuel Wright, a Phoenix... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: April 25, 2024 - 8:00 am
- VideoSteven Spielberg Calls Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange “the First Punk Rock Movie Ever Made”Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick are two of the first directors whose names young cinephiles get to know. They’re also names between which quite a few of those young cinephiles draw a battle line: you may have enjoyed films by both of these auteurs, but ultimately, you’re going to have to side... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: April 24, 2024 - 9:00 am
- Hear Flannery O’Connor Read “A Good Man is Hard to Find” (1959)Flannery O’Connor was a Southern writer who, as Joyce Carol Oates once said, had less in common with Faulkner than with Kafka and Kierkegaard. Isolated by poor health and consumed by her fervent Catholic faith, O’Connor created works of moral fiction that, according to Oates, “were not refined New Yorker... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: April 24, 2024 - 8:03 am