Born in New York, the Molecule can’t possibly forget season opener at Yankee Stadium. To celebrate, we’ve tracked down this nostalgic painting by Thomas Kinkade. From gallerydirectart.com:
“Thom has created Yankee Stadium to honor the greatest cathedral of the game in the Major Leagues. This painting commemorates the ballpark’s upcoming Farewell 85th Season…”
Kinkade writes:
“No one [...]

While the drama and hype this political season seems to have a better grip on most of us than the tightest pair of G-Star jeans, the Molecule tries its hardest to keep the focus on art. But every now and again some politician does something so stupid, we’ve just gotta turn and look over our [...]

Artist and Audience: 12 “Normal” Responses to Creativity
by Perry Brass
For many people, including artists themselves, art is a mystery; how creativity and its resultant product—art—happens, seems almost impossible to explain outside the realm of magic, and that strange infusion of the Muses called “inspiration.” But after dealing with art for decades, I started to see [...]

Think long and hard the next time you send a smiley face in a text message. Ever wonder how that smiley face got there? Sure, you pressed a few buttons. But how was it programmed to appear? Who programmed it? And once it’s programmed, what exactly happens in your eye that lets you see [...]

Synthetic Memoir Is Not the New Virtual Reality
by Josh Livingston
Buffeted by scandal after scandal, the publishing industry is in a major crisis of confidence. Every time I turn around there’s another author caught embellishing, exaggerating or inventing outright significant portions of a memoir.
Personally, I pin the blame on Sedaris.
I’m not saying that David Sedaris is [...]

Between March 28 and April 20 the EV’s infamous coffee/cocktail haven Rapture Cafe displays the photographs of Ande Whyland. These “one-of-a-kind black and white and colorful prints featuring legendary East Village performers, artists and underground cult icons” will be launched with an opening party Friday, March 28 at 7 pm. Music by Dany Johnson.

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Americans might be a little crazy when it comes to holidays, but we do know that Easter is more than eggs, a big white bunny, and a silly little race that happens at the White House every year. Easter Mass is, in fact, the most-well attended Sunday service for Christian churches. It’s even more well-attended [...]

Since the launch of UM almost two months ago, we’ve been answering (many) concerns about opening our feature PDFs at the website. We realize that while our ideas may all be created equal, our software certainly isn’t. And because Adobe releases a new version of their beloved Acrobat software several times per year it seems, finding two [...]

We’d like to let you know about two new stellar columnists who’ve just joined the team. And beginning next week you can check out these new columns right here!
LONG STORY SHORT | Every other Tuesday, beginning March 25th
Josh Livingston, a Brooklyn-based design professional and weekly self-documenter, picks at culture like loose threads on a jacket. [...]

Every once in a while we see someone successful and famous who doesn’t constantly make a point of tooting his own horn. In the “rising through the ranks” art world — and indeed, the “how can I get noticed” art world — a dash of humility goes a long way. Sort of like garlic. [...]