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A Running Record of Findings from the Internet / August 22, 2026

The 2,000-Year-Old Cliff Paintings That Stayed Red Because They Were Made With Blood

New analysis of the Zuojiang Huashan murals in Guangxi finds animal blood, and possibly blood from childbirth, worked into the pigment as a binder alongside clay and lime.

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By Hadani Ditmars · The Art Newspaper

Huashan rock art in Guangxi, China
Huashan rock art in Guangxi, China
Design

  1. A Guangzhou Office Built Around Its Library Instead of Its Corner Offices

    Leibal·Aug 22

  2. A Milwaukee House Wrapped in an Illuminated Aluminum Screen

    Plain Magazine·Aug 21

  3. A Pink Lithium-Crystal Sauna Rises From a Toxic Wasteland

    Design Indaba·Aug 21

  4. Toronto's Waterfront Park Grows Around an Art Trail and a Circular-Design Pavilion

    Toronto's Waterfront Park Grows Around an Art Trail and a Circular-Design Pavilion

    Azure Magazine·Aug 21

Arts & Culture

  1. Sara Jean Ruiz Prints and Weaves Her Way Through the Archive

    Burnaway·Aug 22

  2. Mary Ellen Carroll Builds an Alternative System Inside the Museum

    Mary Ellen Carroll Builds an Alternative System Inside the Museum

    Momus·Aug 20

  3. Hayv Kahraman's Weeping Figures Take Over a London Gallery

    Elephant Magazine·Aug 20

  4. An Istanbul Show on How Colonial Extraction Gets Written Into a Landscape

    ArtAsiaPacific·Aug 20

Sound
  1. A Welsh Black Metal Project Builds Its Darkness Out of Local Myth

    A Welsh Black Metal Project Builds Its Darkness Out of Local Myth

    Invisible Oranges·Aug 18

  2. “I've Tried to Exert Power”: Judah Weston and IsoKeys at a Turning Point

    Passion of the Weiss·Aug 21

  3. The Afghan Whigs Reach for Soul on Soft Control

    No Ripcord·Aug 20

  4. Trevor Dunn on the Long Road From Mr. Bungle to ECM

    Rock and Roll Globe·Aug 20

Collecting

  1. Only 234 Roto-Sphere Signs Were Ever Made. One Museum Is Hunting the Survivors

    American Sign Museum·Jul 14

  2. Keeping a Dead Film Format Alive With a Rollei A26 and an Adapter

    Keeping a Dead Film Format Alive With a Rollei A26 and an Adapter

    Film Photography Project·Jul 15

  3. Tracking Down the Toys From One Christmas Morning in 1979

    Plaid Stallions·Aug 20

  4. Zillion, the Master System Game Built From a Toy Line and an Anime

    Sega-16·Aug 11

Document

  1. What Watching Birds Teaches That Birding Doesn't

    Public Books·Aug 21

  2. Hermione Lee on the Awkward Pleasures of Literary Biography

    The Paris Review Daily·Aug 17

  3. From a 19th-Century Botulism Outbreak to the Modern Beauty Clinic

    Eurozine·Aug 12

  4. The Oldest Surviving Scrap of the Odyssey Goes on View at the Met

    The Oldest Surviving Scrap of the Odyssey Goes on View at the Met

    Artlyst·Aug 19

Film

  1. Venice in the Early 2000s, Shot on Plus-X and a Mamiya 7II

    35mmc·Aug 22

  2. Der Fan and the All-Consuming Side of Pop Fandom

    Metrograph·Aug 20

  3. In Defense of the Failed Blockbuster

    In Defense of the Failed Blockbuster

    Bright Wall/Dark Room·Aug 21

  4. Abel Ferrara Turns 75, Still Working Outside the System

    Senses of Cinema·Jul 30

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