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War-Damaged Utility Pole Monument in Tokyo, Japan

June 17, 2020

On March 10, 1945, during World War II, American fighters bombed Tokyo, an incendiary attack that claimed more than 100,000 lives overnight. Much of the city’s historic downtown districts was burned to the ground. Unnoticed by most people, a single utility pole in the Misuji district survived this air raid … barely. While it looks like the remains of a tree hit by a lightning, it is monument to the bombing attack. It represents the tragedy of war and...

The Art Movement Bringing Fun and Frivolity...

June 17, 2020

According to Nairobi-based director, producer, and author Wanuri Kahiu, African art needed a jolt of fun, fierceness, and frivolity. Too often, she says, the stories that come out of the continent are “limited to war, poverty, and devastation.” So Kahui cofounded an artistic movement called AFROBUBBLEGUM that flies in the face of those stereotypes. AFROBUBBLEGUM includes the work of many artists in a variety of mediums, including Kahui’s film Rafiki, which follows the story of Kena and Ziki, two...

Arch of Trajan in Benevento in Benevento,...

June 17, 2020

One of the most iconic pieces of Roman architecture was the triumphal arch. Hundreds were built all over the former empire, but only about 50 are still standing, and very few are preserved in a good state. The best-preserved example is the Arch of Trajan in Benevento. It was built by emperor Trajan between 114 and 117 to celebrate the victories in Dacia and the inauguration of a new road, called Via Traiana, connecting Benevento and Brindisi, an alternative...

The ‘Boccaccio Project’ Is Capturing the Music...

June 17, 2020

Since March 2020, when the United States began locking down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, museums and historians have been collecting documents and testimonials in real time. Those efforts have redoubled since the end of May, when massive protests against police brutality and racism launched around the world. People are living with the sense that they are witnessing history, and that the moment ought to be archived for posterity. The Library of Congress’s new Boccaccio Project now joins the...

In Mongolia, a Mysterious Island Ruin is...

June 17, 2020

On a balmy summer day in what is today southern Russia, a tree was felled for a monumental construction project: a palatial set of buildings that would never be used. The rectangular foundation of the structure was laid about 30 miles from the Mongolian border, on an island in Lake Tere-Khol. Since its presence was learned from a stone near the Selenga river (a runic tablet with an inscription detailing the site), the settlement—known as Por-Bajin—has eluded understanding. A...

Have Archaeologists Found London’s Lost Theater?

June 16, 2020

If you found yourself in 16th-century London with a bit of spare money and free time, you might have wedged yourself into an inn or a playhouse to see a performance. The space may have been a square, circle, or polygon, and it might have had a roof—thatched or tiled, and perhaps celestial in design, splashed with blue and spangled with stars. It might even have a trap door or two—one to welcome gods and goddesses to Earth, another...

Why Are NYPD Cruisers Playing the Ice...

June 16, 2020

Editor’s note: This article describes racist imagery and slurs. In early June, an ice cream truck jingle rang out in Brooklyn, yet it drew no children, produced no soft serve, and evoked no nostalgia. It was midnight, and it came from an unmarked NYPD cruiser. It was the third night of an 8 p.m. citywide curfew, issued by Mayor Bill de Blasio, ostensibly to curb looting and violence. Despite the order, peaceful protests continued well past 8 p.m. It...

Bling-Bling for the People in Danderyd, Sweden

June 16, 2020

The walkways underneath raised roadways are often gray and grim. But that’s not the case under the Inverness motorway bridge in Danderyd. With the addition of some bright paint and six elegant crystal chandeliers, this underpass was transformed in 2014. Before the makeover, residents of the area considered this underpass unsafe. The landscape architect Sofia Didrik came up with the unique and whimsical idea of installing high society ‘bourgeois’ lighting fixtures under the viaduct to literally brighten it up....

La Starza in Italy

June 16, 2020

Dating back to the Neolithic Age, La Starza is the oldest known settlement in Campania. To the untrained eye, all that remains of the hamlet today are unrecognizable ruins in the middle of the countryside—a rocky formation overlooking a spring—but the site is, in fact, a cache of ancient pottery, earthenware, animal and plant remains, and metal artifacts. The settlement was erected nearly 9,000 years ago and was continuously inhabited for eight millennia— throughout the Neolithic Age, Iron Age,...

Air Conditioned Village in Austin, Texas

June 16, 2020

Many modern-day Americans wouldn’t be able to survive a summer without a central air conditioning system. Those systems owe much of their existence to this small cluster of about 20 homes in the North Austin neighborhood of Allandale. In the first half of the 20th century, air conditioning was a luxury that was only found in commercial business settings. But things began to change in the 1950s, when the National Association of Homebuilders came up with the novel idea...

‘The Lord’ in Mid and East Antrim,...

June 16, 2020

This towering formation of basalt rock can be found along the shoreline of the Cloughfin Townland on the Islandmagee Penisula in Northern Ireland. The sea stack has been nicknamed “The Lord” for its powerful prominence standing along the battered rocky shoreline. Stacks like these are the result of years of erosion from crashing waves. This stack is made of basalt, a dark-colored rock that forms when magma hardens. It rests on a base of amygdaloidal basalt, which has a...

Milner’s Tower in Port Erin, Isle of...

June 16, 2020

A lonely spire of stone rises from the rocky promontory of Bradda Glen on the Isle of Man, looming over the sleepy village of Port Erin and its namesake bay. While this dark tower might seem at home in a Stephen King novel, or a place to sequester a fairy-tale princess, Milner’s Tower was originally erected to honor (not imprison) a local philanthropist and benefactor. William Milner was a wealthy safemaker who moved to Port Erin from Liverpool in...

Meet the Man on a Mission to...

June 16, 2020

The artist Matthew Willey used to instinctively avoid bees, as so many of us do—until one fateful day in 2008. “I was in my studio in the East Village and a little honeybee flew in and landed right in the middle of the rug,” Willey shares. “She was walking along the carpet, not flying around, so I had the opportunity to get down on the floor and really study this bee.” Leery but curious, he grabbed a magnifying glass...

What a Socially Distant World Would Really...

June 16, 2020

Pelle Cass is a street photographer—sort of. Since 2008, he’s been taking his camera and tripod to public plazas and tourist hubs in Boston, New York, and other major cities, where, over the course of an hour or more, he takes several hundred photos of a fixed point. Back in the editing room, he spends anywhere from 20 to 80 hours Photoshopping a single image, finding, masking, and layering the people that make it into the final frame—a “still...

Chapman State Park in Indian Head, Maryland

June 16, 2020

Chapman State Park is located along the Potomac River a 30-minute drive south of Washington, D.C. Until 1914, the grounds were owned by the Chapman family. The state of Maryland purchased the property in 1998 and turned it into a public park. Nathaniel Chapman, a wealthy Virginia planter, bought the land and plantation in 1751. On the property is Mount Aventine, a mansion built between 1800 and 1860 that served as the center of the plantation. For many decades, the...

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