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One of the Most Ambitious Art Projects in History Is Hidden in an Extinct Volcano

Ex-Plain
March 19, 2026

Some projects are built to last centuries. At Roden Crater, James Turrell has spent over fifty years transforming an extinct…

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Lalibela: A Holy City Carved From Stone

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March 18, 2026

A vast complex of monolithic churches carved from living rock in medieval Ethiopia, Lalibela was conceived as a “New Jerusalem”…

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Visions

A Skeleton in the Church Window: Wim Delvoye’s X‑Ray Stained Glass

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March 12, 2026

A Belgian artist turned medical X-rays into Gothic stained glass, replacing saints with skeletons and radiography with cathedral light. The…

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Things We Found on the Internet, Vol. 2

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March 11, 2026

It's been a while since we did the last one Hope's everyone's had a good month since the last time…

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Sounds

What the Hell Is Keller Synth? A Guide to Tänzelcore and Basement Goblin Techno

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March 10, 2026

A strange underground genre with roots in Germany involves blending dungeon synth, hardcore techno, and black metal aesthetics into something…

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Visions

Michael Rakowitz and the Afterlife of Destroyed Art

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March 6, 2026

After terrorism and war erased centuries of Iraqi heritage, one artist began reconstructing the missing artifacts, creating ghostly stand-ins for…

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Spaces

The Glass Temple Hidden Beneath Kyoto

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March 3, 2026

Almost invisible from the surface of a 17th-century imperial temple complex, Kyoto’s Glass Temple hides a stark white chamber beneath…

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Looks

Outsiders as Drawn by an Outsider: Jo Brocklehurst and London After Dark

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February 25, 2026

A reclusive artist hidden behind dark glasses, Jo Brocklehurst moved through London’s underground as both a witness and accomplice of…

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Sounds

The Time a Japanese Noise Musician Destroyed a Venue With a Bulldozer

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February 24, 2026

In 1985, Hanatarash frontman Yamantaka Eye drove an excavator into a Tokyo venue, turning a noise performance into an act…

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Visions

The Porsche 356 Bonsai: Preservation Without Restoration

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February 21, 2026

An artist’s rare Porsche is stripped down to its bare essentials and reimagined through Japanese craft traditions and wabi-sabi philosophy,…