Shane MacGowan, the lead singer and songwriter of trailblazing Celtic punk band the Pogues and one of the all-time great bandleaders, has died aged 65 following a long period of ill health. A family statement said he died at 3.30am on 30 November, and was described as “our most beautiful, darling and dearly beloved”.
Thursday, November 30, 2023
Winter, Sandy Skoglund
Often combining sculptural methods with a photographic aesthetic related to commercial advertising, she welcomes us into surreal and uncanny tableaux where instead of a clear narrative, we find realms of baffling wonder.
See more of Skoglund’s work here.
How One Becomes What One Is?
Her work is inspired by stories of migration and daily life in the places she’s lived in Venezuela and the United States.
See more images from “How One Becomes What One Is?” here.
Henry Kissinger has died at 100
The celebrity diplomat has advised a dozen presidents over his long career, including Joe Biden, and won a shared Nobel prize for negotiating the end to the Vietnam war.
But his legacy was also defined by his contempt for human rights and efforts to protect US corporate interests at all costs, with opponents across the world casting him as a war criminal. He supported Indonesia’s military dictator in the invasion of East Timor, backed the invasion of Angola by the apartheid regime in South Africa and worked with the CIA to overthrow the democratically-elected president of Chile. He also authorized wiretaps of reporters and his own staff.
Newly minted billionaires have collected more of their wealth from the deaths of relatives than through their own work and entrepreneurship.
Of the 137 people who became billionaires in the 12 months to this April, 53 inherited a combined $150.8bn (£119bn) from their family, the report by UBS found.
This exceeds the combined $140.7bn created by “84 new self-made” billionaires over the same period.
The bank said it was the first time in the nine-year history of its annual report on the fortunes of the richest 0.00004% of society that “the next generation of billionaires accumulated more wealth through inheritance than entrepreneurship”.
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
What Are Cookie Monster's Cookies?
The chocolate chips are made of colored glue.
Muppet wrangler Lara MacLean, who has worked for the Jim Henson Company since 1992, bakes them at home. She prepares the cookies so that they crumble in Cookie Monster's mouth at just the right consistency, letting him feel every crumb of defeat fall from his mouth to the amusement of his young audience.
Cookie Monster's muppeteer, David Rudman, comments, "The more crumbs, the funnier it is."
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Meet Jarang
Is it illegal to get your dog high on weed?
White Rabbit
Monday, November 27, 2023
The History of the Teddy Bear
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Editorial cartoonist Clifford K. Berryman captured the scene in several Washington Post drawings—one showing a thin Roosevelt refusing to kill a bear, another picturing a more realistically stocky Roosevelt near a smaller bear with a wide-eyed, babylike face. To Brooklyn candy store owner Morris Michtom, the cute cub from the cartoons also looked like a marketing opportunity. He asked his wife, Rose, to sew a stuffed version, and that single prototype sold shortly after the couple placed it in the store window. Rose made more, and with demand exceeding what busy fingers could create, the two began factory production in 1903. Michtom called his cushy new companions “Teddy’s bears,” after the president. By late 1906, the name had shifted to “teddy bear.”
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year 2023: Authentic
Sunday, November 26, 2023
Saturday, November 25, 2023
Above and Below the Surface
The waters surrounding the Philippines were fruitful for photographers this year, producing several winning images of the 2023 Ocean Photographer of the Year contest.
Friday, November 24, 2023
Graffiti Art in Prison
The enclosed photographs by Martha Cooper serve as the sole remnants of this monumental yet ephemeral project.
Monday, November 20, 2023
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