A New Winter is a project from Colombian-American photographer Sofia Jaramillo that seeks to This project revisits the early depictions of skiing, which o ...

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I think I’d heard the term “k-shaped economy” somewhere before but didn’t really know what it meant until I watched this video: American Airlines is changing ...

In 1964, legendary jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie ran for President as a write-in candidate. Some of the more interesting details about his campaign: If elect ...

I know I probably say this every time I post videos like this, but I wish I’d gotten into art & art history earlier than I did. Channels like Behind the Maste ...

The Merchant’s House Museum was NYC’s first landmarked building, but until this year, the function of a small hidden passageway in the house was unknown. When ...

Hey gang. I took a couple of days off at the beginning of the week to visit some colleges with my daughter. She found a potential contender, one that was just f ...

In 2026, I’m No Longer Interested in ‘Working on Myself’, aka the exhausting “hyper-policing [of] our thoughts and language until ...

Recently Discovered: an NYC Underground Railroad Stop. The Merchant’s House Museum was NYC’s first landmarked building, but until this year, the function of a small hidden pas ...

Sara Hussain for Vogue India: In 2026, I’m No Longer Interested in ‘Working on Myself’, aka the exhausting “hyper-policing [of] our thoughts and language until having a personality feels like a risk ...

We knew it was here, but didn’t really know what we were looking at,” Camille Czerkowicz, the curator for the Merchant’s House Museum, said. Now they know that the Merchant’s House was also a “safe ...

As you know, I love me some Lego engineering builds. This one is pretty fun: using a large syringe, a Raspberry Pi, neodymium magnets, a controller scavenged ...