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Twilight Epiphany Skyspace in Houston, Texas

July 23, 2020

Artist James Turrell, with his “Skyspace” installations, creates meditative yet subtly kinetic spaces in which to observe and contemplate as the Earth’s rotation, with continuous changes in light angle and quality. This installation, part of the Suzanne Deal Booth Centennial Pavilion, on the campus of Rice University, was designed to host musical performances. In consists of a pyramidal grassy mound, topped by an elevated square roof with a square hole in the middle, and two viewing spaces below. Each...

From Mining Hellscape to Holiday Paradise

July 23, 2020

Near the harbor of Großräschen, a small town in Brandenburg, Germany, you can walk through the stately entrance of the Seehotel and place a two-euro coin on the front desk. In return, a receptionist will lead you behind a locked door, where you can see the Mona Lisa. A few rooms on the ground floor of the hotel are filled with paintings by the Posin brothers, a trio of Russian artists who copied the Old Masters in their studio...

Grave of Charles Piazzi Smyth in Sharow,...

July 23, 2020

Sometimes the line between science and conspiracy theories can become blurred. A popular topic where these fields cross is Egyptology and the origin of the pyramids. These days, there are hundreds of theories on how the pyramids were built, varying in levels of plausibility. One of the forefathers of these theories interestingly was both a prominent scientist and someone who had interesting views on the creation of the pyramids. Isaac Newton was the first to suggest in 1704 that...

White Sturgeon and Kokanee Salmon in Revelstoke,...

July 23, 2020

A bend in the Columbia River makes Revelstoke a natural spot for travelers to rest. Revelstoke is the ideal stop for motorists along the Trans-Canada Highway between Vancouver, Banff, and Calgary. One of the most charming features of Revelstoke’s very walkable downtown is a hand-forged steel sculpture called “White Sturgeon and Kokanee Salmon.” It celebrates two fish extremely important to the region. The white sturgeon is the largest freshwater fish in North America and kokanee is a landlocked salmon. The...

Keramat Iskandar Shah in Singapore, Singapore

July 23, 2020

Located on Fort Canning, known before colonial rule as Bukit Larangan, the Keramat Iskandar Shah is one of the oldest architectural structures in Singapore. John Crawfurd, the second British Resident of Singapore, described it in 1822 as “a rude structure”. Crawfurd was informed that the internee of the keramat was Iskandar Shah, the last King of Singapura who reigned during the late-14th century. After being sacked by Majapahit forces, Shah fled Singapura and established the Melaka Sultanate. Crawfurd and...

Mother and Child in Singapore, Singapore

July 23, 2020

“Mother and Child”, cast in bronze in 1980 is one of two sculptures of the same name sculpted by Dr. Ng Eng Teng. The sculpture makes use of the mother and child motif, common in Singaporean art and is associated with the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA). The sculpture explores humanistic themes of emotional attraction and kinship. In particular, Ng emphasized his view that maternal care and nurturing were essential to the growth of individuals and society, symbolized...

Cracking the Case of South India’s Missing...

July 22, 2020

Akash Muralidharan’s quest to find forgotten South Indian vegetables began when he cleaned out his bedroom. It was January 2020, and he had just returned to his home city of Chennai after finishing his master’s degree in Food Design and Innovation in Milan. Like many students returning home after graduation, Muralidharan found that his childhood bedroom had become a storeroom. Muralidharan was clearing space for himself when he spotted it: his grandmother Kamala Natarajan’s copy of Samaithu Par. Published...

Keeping Track of Monument Removals Could Be...

July 22, 2020

Statues have been on Emily Gorcenski’s mind for a while. Three years ago, she was living in Charlottesville, Virginia, during the tumultuous week of protests over the removal of Confederate statues and monuments, during which a white supremacist drove a vehicle into a crowd of peaceful protesters and killed activist Heather Heyer. Seeking to track the judicial progress of hate crime cases, Gorcenski used public records to build First Vigil, a database of legal proceedings related to far-right and...

Museum of Material Failures in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

July 22, 2020

Several rooms of a Pittsburgh materials testing laboratory called Matergenics have been dedicated to an unusual collection: 30 years of failure, consisting of broken things and twisted metal. Although it may all look like junk, each item, the materials failure it represents, has a story to tell and a surprising lesson to impart. The hands-on museum contains pieces ranging from a corroded Olympic diving board to exploded gas lines. The museum’s curator, materials scientist and Matergenics owner Mehrooz Zamanzadeh...

Sold: An 1891 Patent by Granville T....

July 22, 2020

Had Granville T. Woods been allowed to focus on his work—and pay less attention to lawsuits—who knows how many more inventions he’d have to his name? The Black American inventor, born in Ohio in 1856, secured more than 60 patents before he died in 1910, at the age of 53. His output ranged from egg incubators to enhancements for telephones and phonographs, though he is now best known for his work on railway systems and transportation safety. In 2004,...

Yuzuan Restaurant in Nankoku, Japan

July 22, 2020

As soon as you pull into the parking lot of Yuzuan Restaurant, you know it’s special. The lot is dotted with intriguing objects from the owner’s personal collection, from the large shark statue to the small version of the famous Cat Bus from the Ghibli classic My Neighbor Totoro. The entire experience of eating at Yuzuan has a distinct Kochi-style whimsicality to it. Customers may sit at a table overlooked by a large statue of Ryoma Sakamoto (a local hero) or beneath...

The Grave of Silas Soule in Denver,...

July 22, 2020

In the predawn hours of November 29, 1864, troops from the Colorado Third Volunteers, derisively called “The Bloodless Third,” under the command of Colonel John Chivington, attacked the peaceful camp of the Black Kettle Band of Cheyennes on the banks of Big Sandy Creek, on the plains of southern Colorado. The troops plunged in, firing indiscriminately, and all the troops participated with relish. All except Company D of the First Colorado Calvary, under the command of Captain Silas Soule, and...

Chugwater Soda Fountain in Chugwater, Wyoming

July 22, 2020

Just 45 miles north of Cheyenne, Wyoming, is the small town of Chugwater. It would be hard to guess that this town of roughly 200 was the headquarters of the Swan Land and Cattle Company, once one of the largest cattle and sheep ranching operations in the United States. In recent years, its notoriety comes from the Chugwater Chili Cookoff, an annual, competitive cookoff held every June. Perhaps the best-kept secret is that the town is also home to the...

Dearfield Ghost Town in Orchard, Colorado

July 22, 2020

Dearfield is the ghost town of a former Black American farming community on the plains of Colorado, established by entrepreneur Oliver Toussaint Jackson. Jackson was born to formerly enslaved people and spent his early years in Ohio before moving to Denver in 1887. Working as a caterer, Jackson eventually earned enough money to purchase a small farm outside Boulder. Jackson went on to run two successful restaurants in Boulder and Denver, manage the catering and concession service at the...

Atrani in Atrani, Italy

July 22, 2020

Italy’s Amalfi Coast, with its cliff-perched houses and harrowing roads, has mesmerized many visitors. One Amalfi village in particular became a lifelong fascination for M.C. Escher, the 20th-century Dutch artist and illustrator, and he revisited it repeatedly in his works. Atrani, located just east of Amalfi, near the center of its namesake coast, resembles a fantasy castle: A series of tall arches springs from the sea to support an acute curve in the cliff-hugging coast road. Within this hairpin...

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