May 25, 2020 – Five Shouts Out

Spirited Narratives Drive Whimsical, Patterned Paintings by Monica Rohan

Chris SyrgMay 25, 2020May 25, 2020

“Kate, awkward” (2015), oil on board, 31 1/2 × 23 3/5 inches. All images © Monica Rohan, shared with permission Whether unwrapping themselves from textile folds or balancing atop spindly stools,...

Art

Remembering the Toxcatl Massacre: The Beginning of the End of Aztec Supremacy

EditorMay 25, 2020May 25, 2020

[caption id="attachment_80834" align="alignnone" width="1300"] Toxcatl Massacre, Book 12 of the Florentine Codex (“Of the Conquest of New Spain”). Ms. Mediceo Palatino 220, 1577, fol. 1 (detail). Courtesy of the Biblioteca...

We Humans

This Japanese Zoo is Using Stuffed Capybaras to Visualize Social Distancing

Chris SyrgMay 25, 2020May 25, 2020

All images by @chacha0rca Take a seat for lunch at Izu Shabonten Zoo in Shizuoka, Japan, and meet your plush dining partners. To help restaurant patrons visualize social distancing guidelines,...