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4 days ago | 
hyperallergic.com | AX Mina
LONDON — Ask any tarot reader about the origins of the popular cartomancy practice, and you’ll get a variety of answers. “It’s from ancient Egypt.” “It was Renaissance Italians.” “They’re connected to playing cards.” “Nobody really knows.” Tarot – Origins & Afterlives at the Warburg Institute starts by looking at this history, without overshadowing the magic in this practice.
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1 month ago | 
hyperallergic.com | AX Mina
We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. Hyperallergic’s tarotscope series is a combination of tarot with astrology, a reading for the collective readership combined with cards for the major astrological signs, grouped by their elemental associations.
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2 months ago | 
hyperallergic.com | AX Mina
We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. On September 20, 1985, some 5,000 protestors gathered in Escalante, a city in the province of Negros Occidental in the Philippines, to commemorate the 13th anniversary of President Ferdinand Marcos’s declaration of martial law. The military opened fire, killing 20 and injuring many more.
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2 months ago | 
hyperallergic.com | AX Mina
We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. Door gods, or menshen, are traditional protectors placed outside private homes in a popular Chinese folk practice. Often portrayed as burly and bearded guardians, the menshen are, one could say, filled with masculine energy.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
hyperallergic.com | AX Mina
We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. In line for tickets at The Met’s Great Hall, I spotted the massive calligraphy of Taiwanese artist Tong Yang-Tze, a 2024 museum commission whose broad brush strokes leap across the canvas.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
hyperallergic.com | AX Mina
We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. One fact I appreciate about the observable universe is that it appears to be spherical in shape. This contemporary astronomical observation hearkens back to Aristotle’s own belief in heavenly spheres and the Han dynasty astronomer Zhang Heng’s assertion that the earth is square, while the heavens are round.
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Jan 3, 2025 | 
hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad |Hakim Bishara |AX Mina |Seph Rodney |Julie Schneider |Daniel Larkin
We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. It’s 2025 and time to start a new year of exploring art — and there’s already plenty to see.
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Dec 26, 2024 | 
hyperallergic.com | AX Mina
We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. Hyperallergic’s tarotscope series is a combination of tarot with astrology, a reading for the collective readership combined with cards for the major astrological signs, grouped by their elemental associations, developed by AX Mina, producer for Five and Nine, a podcast about magic, work and economic justice.
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Dec 24, 2024 | 
hyperallergic.com | AX Mina
We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. Hyperallergic’s tarotscope series is a combination of tarot with astrology, a reading for the collective readership combined with cards for the major astrological signs, grouped by their elemental associations, developed by AX Mina, producer for Five and Nine, a podcast about magic, work and economic justice.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
niemanlab.org | AX Mina
On the evening of his election night coverage, Daily Show host Jon Stewart closed out with a simple pronouncement: “Here’s what we know: that we don’t really know anything. And that we’re going to come out of this election and we’re going to make all kinds of pronouncements about what this country is and what this world is.
