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Longplayer: One Song, A Thousand Years, No Intermission
A quarter of a century ago, a Celtic punk musician started a performance of a song so absurdly long that…
Author: Ex-Plain
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One Free Ride: When Texas Prison Inmates Became Rodeo Cowboys
For more than fifty years, the Texas Prison Rodeo turned incarceration into public entertainment, drawing massive crowds to Huntsville to…
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The Bulldozer Exhibition: When the Soviets Tried (and Failed) to Literally Crush an Art Show
In 1974, Soviet authorities used bulldozers, arrests, and violence to destroy an unsanctioned outdoor art exhibition, only to ignite an…
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Paintings of Tattoo Guns from a Mexican Prison
Willingly spending two months in a Mexican prison and collaborating with the inmates, artist Scott Campbell built tattoo machines out…
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Ancient Roman Brutalism? This Tomb Defies Classical Expectations
Two thousand years before concrete brutalism, this ancient Roman tomb built to honor a former slave appears staggeringly modern, but…
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The Lost Art of Internet Game Guide ASCII Art
In which we rediscover the overlooked trend of ASCII art hidden inside fan-made video game guides from decades ago, created…
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The Belgrade Phantom: The (Mostly) True Story of Yugoslavia’s Most Legendary Car Chase
A stolen white Porsche 911 in 1970s Yugoslavia turned an ordinary car thief into an urban legend. For several nights,…
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When Google Earth Breaks, It Accidentally Becomes Art
New York–based artist Clement Valla has been steadily collecting images of the Earth, but not the Earth as we know…
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A Door Dedicated to Death in the World’s Most Powerful Church
To the left of the main entrance of St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City stands a controversial bronze door that…