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Culture
The series that quenches your curiosity and puts the cult back into culture. From classical sculptures to video games, memes to Mafiosi, Gymnastics stretches the intellect by linking things that seem to have little in common.
The Search for Lost Letters
In a high tech world saturated by data, has the art of letter writing definitively died?
5 min
Documentary
Olia Lialina: The Artist Who's Saving the Internet
Meet the artist hacking the internet to revive old tech
Degas, Backstage at the Opera
Degas’s The Little Fourteen Year Old Dancer has a sad history behind it
Small Penises on Classical Sculptures
Why do penises on classical statues seem so small? Art historians and anatomists have the answer.
Dial 420 for Drugs
420 is seemingly totally innocent number, and yet there's an entire global counterculture devoted to it
All Nipples are Not Equal
Not all nipples are the same. On Instagram or Facebook female breasts are censured whereas the bare male torso is not. Some artists are challenging this double standard.
6 min
Perfect Bodies
Human beings are covered in body hair, but ever since antiquity, painters and artists have depicted completely hairless bodies in their works
How a Saint Became a Gay Icon
The image of San Sebastian, tied up and his chest riddled with arrows, has inspired generations of artists
Proust's Sweet Tooth
Madeleines have become literary icons, all thanks to Proust
The Witches Are Back
The fear of being called a witch was the ultimate form of social control during the Renaissance period
Gotham City
What inspired the cityscape of one of the most famous cities to never exist?
Turns Out You CAN Polish a Turd
Italian artist Piero Manzoni sold tins of his own poop
Goethe's Favourite Dress
The science behind The Dress that took over the internet in 2015
Porno-graphics (.)(.)
Meet the artist who thinks letters are sexy
Why Metalheads Have Long Hair
A potted history of long hair on men, and why metalheads love their long locks
Japanese Regqae
The riddim of the revolutionary song Under Mi Sleng Teng was created by a Casio employee from Japan.
The Mona Lisa's Eyes Don't Follow You Around the Room
It seems that scientist have proven that the enigmatic gaze of the Mona Lisa does not follow you as you move around the room. So why did we think that in the first place?
4 min
Where are the Women Artists of the Renaissance?
As good as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo or Botticelli, but for five hundred years the women artists of the Italian renaissance have lacked recognition. Linda Falcone, head of the Advancing Women Artists Foundation, is working to change that.
Why Do I Sing Out of Tune?
Life is unfair. Some have perfect pitch while others can’t sing Happy Birthday in tune. Is musicality innate or cultural?
The Nipple That Created Youtube
How a wardrobe malfunction resulted in the creation of Youtube
