MOAD Calls for Participants for Its Next Exhibition

Beginning 10 June and running through 31 July, The Museum of African Design in Johannesburg, South Africa will be exhibiting #ULTRACONTEMPORARY#EMERGENCYART#AFRICA, an ephemeral art show in which works are only shown on the same day they are created. The artworks will address an immediate or burning emergency as decided by each artist. Attending audience members will be able to debate with the artists following each …

Joon Moon: I Might Be Wrong (Radiohead Cover)

Paris-based Joon Moon (currently made up of Julien Decoret and American expat Krystle Warren, who’s toured with Joan As Police Woman, Rufus Wainwright and more) take on Radiohead’s 2001 single “I Might Be Wrong,”—separating the song from its electronic and more aggressive musical elements, while preserving its intensity and emotion. The tinkling of piano, recorded strings, and the barest brush of percussion shine a spotlight …

Whales Are Eating Our Trash

A recent surge in whale beachings (over 30 cases in Europe so far in 2016) is causing major concern for researchers and marine biologists. Not long ago, a necropsy of a beached whale revealed huge amounts of car parts and plastic waste, including buckets and netting in its stomach. Though the ocean waste may not have been the primary cause for the whales’ deaths (researchers …