Long ago, we traded the trees for tools, trying to bend the world to our will. We rose to our feet, ambling under the weight of an oversized brain that grew the opposable thumb we call thinking and made with it more tools — language to name what we saw, organizing principles
A list of arts-related graduate programs to explore and apply to before deadlines close.
The news comes on the heels of a lawsuit by former director Sasha Suda, who accused the institution of wrongful termination.
"Girls Move Mountains" is a striking film is by Anna Huix that documents the lives of Indigenous soccer players. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article
“El sueño (La cama)” (1940), a surreal rumination on dreams, nightmares, and the afterlife, sold for $54.7M at Sotheby's.
Researchers were able to observe four coiled shells of dust around the pair for the first time. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article NASA’s Webb
Since 2019, the festival has been transforming Georgia's capital city into a giant public art gallery. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Tbilisi
The gravest of all decisions, to go to war, happens without the consent of the people. This is a great flaw in democracy - by Vincenza Falletti Read on Aeon
It’s almost never exclusively based on logic. We navigate the world with stories, beliefs and assumptions. And the people you’re trying to persuade have a different set of all three than you do. “If I were you” is a hard sentence to sell, because you’re not me. A convincing
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The humorist Sandra Tsing Loh once described her generational cohort as “today’s young, highly trained, downwardly mobile professionals: ‘dumpies.’ We’re just emerging from years of college only to learn that there are no jobs available for people with our advanced