Tag: Reading
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Remote metre reading by 2027: Retrofit beats replacement
Across Europe, millions of heat and hot-water metres accurately measure consumption every day. Many have been in the field for a decade or more, performing their metrological function with high reliability. By 2027, a significant portion of this infrastructure will fail to meet a new regulatory requirement. Not because the sensing is wrong, but because read more
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Winston Churchill statue vandalized with ‘Free Palestine’
A bronze statue of Winston Churchill near the Houses of Parliament in London was vandalized with graffiti reading “Stop the Genicide” and “Free Palestine” as well as “Never Again is Now” and “Globalise the Intifada.” As reported by the BBC, a 38-year-old man named Caspar San Giorgio was arrested after the incident on Friday and read more
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Reading a Biography of a Mountain
Books Newsletter Mount Rushmore, originally known as Six Grandfathers, gets its own biography, plus Sarah Bond on museums’ approach to polychromy and whiteness. At its best, an artist biography lingers long after we’ve read it, continually reshaping our orientation toward a maker and their life. But what might a biography of a mountain look like? read more
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A Very 2026 Art Reading List
Daily Newsletter Also, the Smithsonian complies with Trump, the Asian Art Museum’s baby rave, and an interview El Salvador’s Venice Biennale artist. Do you have a go-to shade of lipstick? Do you wear it at all? Why, or why not? Inquiring minds — specifically, art critic Eileen G’Sell — want to know. Her forthcoming study read more
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Required Reading
Community The Schomburg Qur’an, Auudi Dorsey’s paintings of Black community at the beach, an unsolved Pollock theft, remembering Claudette Colvin, dollhouse furniture, and more. On January 6, Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as mayor of New York City with his hand resting on a special edition of the Qur’an, now on view at the New read more
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