Art
Watch a Weed Artist Sculpt a Beautiful Unicorn Joint
The Oregon-based Greenhand — perhaps the Michelangelo of joint rolling — toked himself into cannabis culture fame in 2014 after posting an image of his Sherlock Joint to Reddit.
Carey Dunne
Art
Meet the Sisters of the Valley, California's Radical Weed-Growing "Nuns"
Sister Kate and Sister Darcy, a pair of self-ordained new age "nuns" based in Merced, California, are on a holy mission: help make "marijuana a healing industry instead of a stoner industry," as they recently put it.
In Brief
Street Artist Plants Secret Rooms in Milan’s Abandoned Manholes
Throughout the Lodi district of Milan, Italy, artist Biancoshock has transformed abandoned manholes into miniature subterranean rooms.
Art
Paintings of Nudes and Flowers, Dripping with Color and Quirk
Pastels, floral still lifes, and portraits of babies are about as safe and traditional as visual motifs come — they evoke a cutesy Hallmark aesthetic.
Art
Rendering Rhythm and Bodies in 3D
With bursts of neon cones and discs against a black void, clips from graphic artist MELTMIRROR's newest music video suggest what Kandinsky might've come up with had he been able to experiment with 3D modeling.
Books
After 25 Years, an Influential Epistolary Novel Series Mails Its Last Letter
Griffin Moss, a lonely painter in London, and his mysterious muse Sabine Strohem were first introduced in the 1991 best-seller Griffin and Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence, an epistolary novel composed of extensively illustrated postcards and removable handwritten letters by author and artist
Art
A Photographer Who Worked Through the Rise and Fall of Nazi Germany Has Her US Debut
Elisabeth Hase documented Germany's transition from the Weimar Republic to the Third Reich and its postwar devastation.
News
Report Finds Huge Gender Gap in Polish Art Schools
A new report by the Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation investigates a stark disparity in Poland’s art academies: women constitute 77% of students but only 22% of professors.
Art
The Radioactive Ruins of the Cold War’s Secret Cities
When Nadav Kander, an Israeli-born, London-based photographer who is interested in the "aesthetics of destruction," learned of these secret cities, he traveled to eastern Kazakstan to document their ruins.
News
A Speedy 3D Printer for Huge, Industrial Objects
Since 3D printing went mainstream, there's been much buzz about a future filled with 3D printed buildings, cars, and airplanes.
Art
Rare 1974 Photos Capture Bowie’s Godlike Presence
Months after Bowie’s death at age 69, many never-before-published images of him are now compiled in Bowie: Photographs by Steve Schapiro (powerHouse), including photos from tours in 1976 and 1986.
In Brief
An Animated Guide to the Bronze Age Technique of Lost-Wax Casting
Lost-wax casting, a sculpting technique dating to the Chalcolithic period, is an elaborate process.