As a New York City subway rider, I am constantly exposed to public health posters. More often than not these feature a photo of a wholesome-looking teen whose sober expression is meant to convey hindsight regret at having taken up drugs, dropped out of school, or forgone condoms. They’re well-intended, but boring. I can’t imagine […]

The Year of the Plague #5

The Real Magna Carta JamesHoare Thu, 03/13/2025 - 09:17

Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton were the two biggest comedy stars of the silent era, but as it happened, they never shared the screen until well into the reign of sound. In fact, their collaboration didn’t come about until 1952, the same year that Singin’ in the Rain dramatized the already distant-feeling advent of talking […]

The collection of 19th-century three-dimensional models of algebraic and differential equations at the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris made a great impression on Surrealist artists.     When German artist Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) saw a series of 19th Century wood, metal, wire, and plaster forms at the Institut Henri … Continue reading "Man Ray’s Mathematics Objects (1934-36)" The post Man Ray’s Mathematics Objects (1934-36) appeared first on Flashbak.