Ian Hickson, a software engineer at Google who left the company after 18 years, reflects on his time at the firm in a blog post and why he thinks the firm lost its way. He joined in 2005 when its culture genuinely prioritized doing good, but over time he saw that culture erode into one
A new Tim Burton exhibition, Dreamland, is open at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas, celebrating the 30th anniversary of The Nightmare Before Christmas. Dreamland celebrates the timeless appeal of the film, as models and characters from The Nightmare Before Christmas are placed in conversation with nearly 100 paintings, theatre designs, photographs, prints,
Katsushika Hokusai, Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura) from the series “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)” (ca. 1830–32). Collection of Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Katsushika Hokusai’s Japanese woodblock print colloquially known as “The Great Wave” stands as one of the most famous and widely reproduced images in the
ESSE’s 14th annual benefit auction featured works from these ten Concordia alumni. Bilingual contemporary art magazine ESSE’s 14th annual benefit auction, Vendu-Sold, was recently on view at Projet Casa from Nov. 9 through Nov. 19. The opening event was attended by ESSE’s director, Concordia alumnus Sylvette Babin, along with many other ESSE administrators and several
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Sam Altman may have been asked to leave OpenAI, but his involvement in crypto project Tools for Humanity, which is building Worldcoin, remains uninterrupted, a source close to the project told TechCrunch. Altman has “consistent and valuable” engagement with Tools for Humanity and “that is not expected
Did you know that Spain is known as the country where the sun never sets? Spain is arguably one of the best travel destinations, whether you are traveling alone or as a group. The ultimate goal of traveling is enjoyment, and Spain is an ideal destination to achieve this. Spain has different cities and attractions,
It’s time for this year’s Black Friday sales, and Nintendo of America’s Switch eShops are full of Black Friday discounts as part of its Cyber Deals sale. You’ll find a large selection of discounted Switch games with some big savings to be made until the sale ends on December 3rd, 2023. With so many games
by Diane Urbani Egor Shokoladov, one of Northwind Art’s local Artist Showcase program participants, has been accepted to Art Basel Miami, the gigantic art fair set for Dec. 6-10. The south Florida event, considered the leading art festival in the Americas, will show work from 277 galleries around the world. Last year, organizers reported
Kenwyn Crichlow’s debut exhibition at Diane Rosenstein,“Incandescence,” has a lot of history behind it. After three decades as an artist and educator in Trinidad and Tobago, Crichlow is being reintroduced to the Los Angeles gallery scene. The show spans his early impressionistic experiments and more recent abstractions in charged, vivid hues, which aspire to tell
atmosphere year round. Austrian National Tourist Board Any time of year is a good one to visit Austria’s capital Vienna, for even though summers and early autumn are warmer than they used to be, the city has never experienced the 100-degree temperatures now routinely visited upon other European cities. In winter, its holiday and winter