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The Austrian symbolist painter, Gustav Klimt, a driving force of the Vienna Secession, has joined the ranks of famous, dead artists being served up as pricey, super-sized, Instagram-friendly imme...

https://www.openculture.com/2023/02/the-life-art-of-gustav-klimt.html

Is it just us, or did half of Gen Z teach themselves how to cook on TikTok during the height of the pandemic? The recipes that go viral have more in common with gonzo science experiments than Jul...

https://www.openculture.com/2022/12/watch-you-suck-at-cooking-a-hilarious-source-for-tasty-recipes-and-food-hacks-of-questionable-veracity.html

There’s a passage from Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions that crosses our desk a lot at this time of year. It’s the one in which he declares Armistice Day, which coincidentally falls o...

https://www.openculture.com/2022/11/celebrate-kurt-vonneguts-100-birthday-with-a-collection-of-songs-based-on-his-work.html

Construction sites are hives of specialized activity, but there’s no particular training needed to ferry 500 lbs of stone several stories to the masons waiting above. All you need is the stamin...

https://www.openculture.com/2022/10/behold-a-21st-century-medieval-castle-being-built-with-only-tools-materials-from-the-middle-ages.html

As a child, Jeff De Boer, the son of a sheet metal fabricator, was fascinated by the European plate armor collection in Calgary’s Glenbow Museum: There was something magical or mystical about t...

https://www.openculture.com/2022/10/artist-makes-astonishing-armor-for-cats-mice.html

Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer  (1471–1528) never saw a rhino himself, but by relying on eyewitness descriptions of the one King Manuel I of Portugal intended as a gift to the Pope, he ma...

https://www.openculture.com/2022/10/cats-in-medieval-manuscripts-paintings.html

Deep in the Hundred Acre Wood Where Christopher Robin plays You’ll find the enchanted neighborhood Of Christopher’s childhood days… Those sweetly sentimental lyrics were penned not by A.A. ...

https://www.openculture.com/2022/09/winnie-the-pooh-went-into-the-public-domain-and-someone-already-turned-the-story-into-a-slasher-film-watch-the-trailer-for-winnie-the-pooh-blood-and-honey.html

However old you may be, you’re never too old to have a children’s book read aloud to you by a pajama clad Dolly Parton. So snuggle up! Every episode of Goodnight with Dolly finds the country ...

https://www.openculture.com/2022/08/dolly-parton-reads-free-bedtime-stories-to-kids-watch-readings-from-goodnight-with-dolly.html

Do you like old timey music? Splendid. You can’t get more old timey than Hurrian Hymn No. 6, which was discovered on a clay tablet in the ancient Syrian port city of Ugarit in the 1950s, and is...

https://www.openculture.com/2022/08/hear-the-worlds-oldest-known-song-hurrian-hymn-no-6-written-3400-years-ago.html

Dolly Parton created her Imagination Library, a non-profit which gives books to millions of children every month, with her father, Robert Lee Parton, in mind. “I always thought that if Daddy ha...

https://www.openculture.com/2022/08/dolly-partons-imagination-library-has-given-away-186-million-free-books-to-kids.html

Throughout history, determined artists have worked on available surfaces — scrap wood, cardboard, walls… Ben Wilson has created thousands of works using chewing gum as his canvas. Specificall...

https://www.openculture.com/2022/08/behold-a-secret-gallery-of-art-created-using-discarded-gum-on-londons-millennium-bridge.html

The Châtelaine de Vergy, a courtly romance that was wildly popular in the mid-13th century, would’ve made a crowd pleasing graphic novel adaptation. It’s got sex, treachery, a trio of violen...

https://www.openculture.com/2022/07/behold-a-medieval-graphic-novel-carved-on-an-14th-century-ivory-box.html

Most 21st-century Brooklyn public elementary schoolers have taken or will take a field trip to the Wyckoff House, a modest wooden cabin surrounded by tire shops and fast food outlets. The oldest ...

https://www.openculture.com/2022/06/the-oldest-house-in-new-york-city-meet-the-wyckoff-house-1652.html

Julia Child and Fred Rogers were titans of public television, celebrated for their natural warmth, the ease with which they delivered important lessons to home viewers, and, for a certain sector ...

https://www.openculture.com/2022/06/julia-child-shows-fred-rogers-how-to-make-a-quick-delicious-pasta-dish-1974.html

As an artistic child growing up on a farm in the 1860s and early 1870s, Anna Mary Robertson (1860–1961) used ground ochre, grass, and berry juice in place of traditional art supplies. She was ...

https://www.openculture.com/2022/05/grandma-moses-started-painting-seriously-at-age-77-and-became-a-famous-american-artist.html