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Art, Monday Gallery — February 1, 2016, 5:00 pm
Strand Book Store, an oil painting by Max Ferguson. Courtesy the artist.
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Combined debt of Iowa farmers:
Israeli children who do not exhibit a preexisting fear of clowns may have their anxiety lessened by medical clowns.
Art, Monday Gallery — February 1, 2016, 5:00 pm
Strand Book Store, an oil painting by Max Ferguson. Courtesy the artist.
Weekly Review — January 26, 2016, 11:04 am
Saudi Arabia’s highest-ranking cleric issued a fatwa condemning the game of chess, claiming it causes “enmity and hatred.” The Danish town of Randers voted to require pork in school lunches. A ten-year-old Muslim student in Lancashire, England, was questioned by police after he misspelled the word “terraced” and wrote instead that he lived in a “terrorist house”; and the U.K. Home Office misspelled the word “language” in an announcement of new English tests for immigrants. Read more…
Art, Monday Gallery — January 25, 2016, 11:50 am
“9910,” a photograph by James Welling, from the exhibition Choreograph, on view until January 30, at David Zwirner Gallery, New York City. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York City/London
Context — January 22, 2016, 1:36 pm
Vietnam’s sacred turtle dies; William Beebe watches turtles breed in Mexico
Weekly Review — January 19, 2016, 11:54 am
The city of Portland unveiled the Poopmaster 6000, which will clean crow droppings from city sidewalks. Researchers in Germany developed tiny bionic “spermbots” that escort slow-swimming sperm to eggs, and a man in Britain claimed to have fathered at least 800 children by selling his sperm on Facebook. “They’re just the ones I know of,” he said. Read more…
“Civilization masks us with a screen, from ourselves and from one another, with thin depth of unreality. We habitually live — do we not? — in a world self-created, half established, of false values arbitrarily upheld, largely inspired by misconception, misapprehension, wrong perspective, and defective proportion, misapplication.”
© 2015 Harper’s Magazine Foundation. February 2016 cover: a fairgoer places a vote in the Corn Poll, at the Iowa State Fair, August 14, 2015 © Justin Sullivan/Getty Images