Here are a few items I’ve come across that I think are pretty interesting – I hope you do too.
- Andoni Beristain’s motifs of grief
Andoni Beristain is a photographer from Zumarraga. When his mother died in 2022, Andoni set out to create an album of photos, one for each year of her life, that feature the mundane objects of her life but gives them a new vibrant perspective.
- Embroidery as a Feminine Utopia by Izaskun Chinchilla
To help celebrate the Basque Country International Architecture Biennial, Mugak/2025, the Izaskun Chinchilla Architects team has created a textile structure that features embroidery as a way to recognize and honor this traditional art form. The piece also aspires to invite “invite visitors to reflect on the historical absence of female authors in utopian thought.”
- Abandoned Fish Farm in San Sebastián to Be Transformed into Seaweed Cultivation Center
A fish farm in Donostia that was abandoned in the 1980s and has since been the haven of graffiti artists is being considered as a site to grow algae by the company Algaloop. They hope to produce up to 150 tons of algae that has uses in agriculture and medicine.
- Sheep Stories Recount Sheepherders’ Experiences in Idaho
Sheepherding has always been a part of Idaho, with many Basques having made their way to the state as part of the sheep industry. That role has now been filled primarily with Peruvians. The Sun Valley Community Library, in partnership with Boise State Public Radio, has documented the stories of sheepherders of various backgrounds in this podcast: https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/podcast/sheep-stories.
- This Year’s ‘Nobel Prize of Gastronomy’ Winner Is Reshaping the Future of Food
Leticia Landa, co-executive director of La Cocina in San Francisco, won the 2025 Basque Culinary World Prize. She was recognized for helping “transform kitchens into spaces of opportunity where talent, perseverance, and community come together to change lives.”
- Farewell to conventional solar panels – Spanish scientists create a material that absorbs 99.5% of light and revolutionizes solar energy
That should say “Basque scientists” as it was a team from Thermophysical Properties of Materials group at the University of the Basque Country that made this new material from copper cobaltate nanoneedles.
- ‘Basque Nachos’ Are TikTok’s Latest Party Trick — and They’re Actually Delicious
Not sure how I feel about this one as I don’t like peppers or olives, but others do, so here you go. “This bite calls for warm potato chips topped with cured Spanish ham, manchego, and pickled peppers or olives.”
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Interesting about the Peruvians. The Basques and the sheep, not the cowboys made the American west. Is it something–in a land that prompt rugged individualism and independence as a national credo that the most rugged and independent of occupations is in the shadow of history.
Monique Durham