Pool: A Tender Illustrated Celebration of Quiet Curiosity and How We Find Our Kindred Spirits
What our hunger for connection has to do with Borges’s imaginary beings. By Maria Popova A century and a half after Lewis Carroll...
Rachel Carson’s Bittersweet Farewell to the World: Timeless Advice to the Next Generations from the Woman Who Catalyzed the Environmental Movement
“Yours is a grave and sobering responsibility, but it is also a shining opportunity. You go out into a world where mankind is...
Life in Miniature: Medical devices and pre-packaged foods immortalized in tiny sculptures by Kath Holden and Margaret Shaw
Kath Holden constantly daydreams about the everyday objects she can transform into tiny sculptures. Even during doctor’s appointments...
Designers bring the interior of famous paintings to life
Paintings of historical interiors are always fascinating as they are a glimpse of the stylistic conventions from past eras. They give us...
«Die Walküre» in Preveza
From the Metropolitan Opera of New York Transmitted live on Saturday March 30, 2019 at 18:00 In what is expected to be a Wagnerian event...
Nobel-winning physicist Wolfgang Pauli on science, spirit, and our search for meaning
“It is only a narrow passage of truth (no matter whether scientific or other truth) that passes between the Scylla of a blue fog of...
Open assembly of Lefkada citizens’ initiative against hydrocarbon extraction
Sunday 17 March at 19:30 Z bar, Gazi & Karavella 11 Lefkas Citizens’ Initiative Against Oil & Gas Drilling in Ionian Sea
Presentation of the recycled plastic artwork «Lefkaxit»
A pioneering installation made of recycle single use plastic: an artwork inspired by the British artist Trudi Lloyd Williams and...
«La Fille du Régiment» in Preveza
From the Metropolitan Opera of New York Transmitted live on Saturday March 2, 2019 at 20:00 La fille du régiment (The Daughter of the...
Shapely shadows reimagined as quirky illustrations by Vincent Bal
The inspiration for the illustrated works of Belgian filmmaker and illustrator Vincent Bal (previously) comes from the shadows cast by...
A dozen new stamps celebrate Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings
Central photo: The head of Leda (c.1505–08), on view at Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool The innovative yet timeless drawings of Leonardo...
A contemporary take on “Byrne’s Euclid” brings geometry to life as a colorful poster
When he’s not working as a web designer, Nicholas Rougeux delights in interpreting data visually. His latest creation is a celebration...
Jane Goodall’s lovely letter to children about how reading shaped her life
How a public library and a messy second-hand bookshop helped a small girl with no money and big dreams change the face of science. by...
A teacher in 1876 handcrafted this quilt to help teach astronomy to her class
By Emma Taggart Central photo: Ellen Harding Baker’s “Solar System Quilt” (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) For many teachers, their job is...
«Carmen» in Preveza
From the Metropolitan Opera of New York Transmitted live on Saturday February 2, 2019 at 20:00 Mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine...
Music, feeling, and transcendence: Nick Cave on AI, Awe, and the splendor of our human limitations
“What a great song makes us feel is a sense of awe… A sense of awe is almost exclusively predicated on our limitations as human beings...