Five Shouts Out

Astronomers describe a violent black hole outburst that provides new insight into galaxy cluster evolution

Chris SyrgDecember 26, 2019

[caption id="attachment_74373" align="aligncenter" width="462"] Giant cavities in the X-ray emitting intracluster medium (shown in blue, as observed by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory) have been carved out by a black hole...

Science

LAMOST first data release provides fundamental parameters of nearly 30,000 M dwarfs

Chris SyrgDecember 26, 2019

[caption id="attachment_74370" align="aligncenter" width="604"] China's Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST). Credit: National Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.[/caption] Based on the first data release (DR1)...

Art

Kent Monkman Introduces Candid Indigenous Narratives to the Metropolitan Museum’s Great Hall

EditorDecember 24, 2019

Installation view of “Welcoming the Newcomers” (2019) for The Great Hall Commission: Kent Monkman, mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People), 2019 (image courtesy of the artist and The Metropolitan Museum of Art,...

Art

Three Holiday Art Events in Los Angeles

EditorDecember 24, 2019

Fantasy Forest 1 (© Descanso Gardens)It can be hard to find art events to go to during the holidays, when most everyone, including gallerists and museum staff hopefully, are taking...

Art

Visions of Home that Are Gut-Wrenching, Contemplative, and Funny

EditorDecember 24, 2019

Sohrab Hura, from the work Snow (2014-ongoing), 24 x 24 in. (courtesy of Sohrab Hura / Experimenter)CAMBRIDGE, England — A museum exhibition in the UK dedicated to contemporary South Asian...

Art

The Art And Design of No New Jails

EditorDecember 24, 2019

A No New Jails NYC activist during a protest outside the Ford Foundation in Manhattan in September, 2019 (photo by the author for Hyperallergic)The New York City branch of No...