• Oskar Fischinger’s animated films that were partly influenced by the poetic abstraction of Kandinsky’s paintings were among the first to mix high art and mass culture. Where Abstraction and Comics Collide.

• The 2006 edition of Princeton’s The Art of Science is live.

• Tracing the transition from the “city of men” to the “city of stone” in the urban imagery of George Orwell. Via.

• Artlies presents the Sincerity Issue. Including Three Moments from the History of Sincerity, and The Many Guises of Sincerity.

• The Philosophy of Punctuation by Paul Robinson. Via.

• One man’s decades-long mathematical quest of mapping the starmaze. Via.