"Understanding and loving are inseparable. If they are separate, it is a cerebral process and the door to essential understanding remains closed."
"What is happiness but growth in peace."
From Daphni (aka Caribou), a 7hr DJ set . 7 hours!
Shaking off any initial caution from last year’s beta test, it has charged forward and made itself a space to showcase the radical history and present of printmaking.
“The art world changed,” scholar Thierry de Duve told us on the occasion of MoMA’s new show. “Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’ is the message that brings us the news.”
The trailer for Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World . The film is showing in select locations around the country and will air on PBS this summer.
“Print is a more democratic medium,” said Temma Nanas of Leslie Sacks Gallery, one of around 80 global galleries returning to the Park Avenue Armory for the annual fair.
Expo Chicago and its orbit of shows reveal both the joys and pain points of the city’s current creative environment.
Ultimate Online Phreak Box . “This is a free online blue box, red box, and silver box.” (With this and a time machine, you could make free phone calls in the 1970s.)
A tour of the mannequin storage room at FIT . Each era’s mannequins are designed to mimic the “fashionable body” of that time period.
The late performer and archivist spent decades as the quiet holder of our secrets, always behind the scenes, always a connector.
The 22nd edition of SP-Arte in São Paulo stands at a global nexus, yet feels decidedly regional.
An interview with Ronald Wayne , Apple’s forgotten third founder. (He was with the company all of 2 weeks.)
Gabriella Marcella founded Risotto in 2012 after purchasing her first risograph machine secondhand. 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 This Risograph
From a livestream recorded many years ago, this is Radiohead covering Joy Division’s Ceremony . The song was originally written by Joy Division but the version most people know is New Order’s — it was their first single. From Wikipedia : “Ceremony” was one of the last Joy
Oh wow, this is a trippy game inspired by MC Escher . My brain may be permanently broken by this.
A short analysis of what makes Mark Antony’s “Friends, Romans, countrymen…” speech from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar so good and effective.
"As always happens with contradictions, something in the assumptions has to give... Declaring something impossible leads to more things being possible."
Transparent houses, suspended structures, and intimate paintings serve as metaphors for belonging in this exhibition at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston.
Using wiki software, old photos, family stories, bank transactions, social media posts, and an LLM to sift through everything to build a personal encyclopedia .
"E-bikes and e-scooters are remaking the rules of the road. Canada’s cities aren’t ready."
“Stalin’s task in building what Senior calls his ‘Red Empire’ was made so much easier, and so much more brutal, by the intelligence the Cambridge spies passed to Moscow .”
Charcuterie is a visual Unicode symbol explorer. Click around, search, or use the pencil in the upper left to draw the shape you’re looking for. This is very cool.
"Earth / Tree" harnesses komorebi, which reflects the unique interplay of light and shadow that occurs when the sun filters through the trees. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little
"Sixty-five years ago, my grandfather masterminded a robbery at a historic Los Angeles estate."
This is wonderful: a Redditor uploaded some of their grandmother’s comics that she made in the 1940s , documenting her marriage to the deployment of her husband for World War II. I never got to meet my grandma, she passed away young in 1977 but finding her 1940s sketches felt
Well, this blows: FSG has shuttered their MCD imprint & Sean McDonald is leaving the company . MCD published so many good titles/authors : Questlove, Enshittification, Robin Sloan, Jeff VanderMeer, Sloane Crosley, Dilla Time, Tamara Shopsin…
"Steakhouse royalty, feminist icon, fungible tourism graphic—she deserves a proper title."
Few things in life are more devastating than to give something your all and still fail. Not the “fail better” of startup culture, not the “fail forward” of self-help, not the failure that is childhood’s fulcrum of learning, not the inspired mistakes that propel creative risk,
"It was the great and eternal made visible: a confluence of opposites, their fusing together in the fire of reality. It meant nothing... or, rather, it meant everything... and it was beautiful, it was happiness and meaning... like an earful of Bach or an eyeful of Cézanne."
Plus, David Novros’s portable muralism, why more cities should offer free art supplies, and an Appalachian collective’s response to a Queens Museum show.
In this edition: a father’s grief; a commuter’s concern; a decision’s consequences; a teen’s hobby; and a sports fan’s hidden haven.
The art expert is the fulcrum of all value and significance in the museum and auction world. Could AI supplant them? - by Noah Charney Read on Aeon