Salon, one of the early internet's pioneering publications, is closing after more than three decades, the outlet announced recently. "It's difficult to find the right words for the end of something that has meant so much to so many people. Salon was never just a website. It was an idea about what journalism could be, born at a moment when the internet was still a largely unexplored frontier," the site said. The shuttering highlights the rapidly-shifting economics of digital media, we noted this week.

  Thursday, November 12, 5-7pm: Picturing Color at FIT Art & Design Gallery Before the eye even registers a silhouette, a texture, or a form, color provokes a gut reaction. It is an immediate, physical language that shifts our mood, sparks memory, and carries vastly different weight depending on where in the world we stand. Across paintings, sculptures, tactile textiles, and light-driven installations, each practitioner tests how the human eye perceives and processes the spectrum. Whe...