Former Met President Daniel Weiss to Lead Philadelphia Art Museum
The news comes on the heels of a lawsuit by former director Sasha Suda, who accused the institution of wrongful termination.
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‘Girls Move Mountains’ Is a Bold Portrait of the Women Playing Soccer in Remote Pakistan
"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
Frida Kahlo Becomes Most Expensive Woman Artist at Auction
“El sueño (La cama)” (1940), a surreal rumination on dreams, nightmares, and the afterlife, sold for $54.7M at Sotheby's.
NASA’s Webb Telescope Captures the Dust Clouds of Apep, Named for the Egyptian God of Chaos
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
Tbilisi Mural Fest’s Dynamic Murals Brighten the Sides of Buildings Throughout the City
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
Not in our name
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
A convincing argument
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
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
In this edition: metal medicine, hyped humanoids, carnival crossroads, divine defiance, and optimization obsession.
How IKEA Revolutionized Furniture-Making
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
Required Reading
This week: pothole mosaics, mosque demolitions in India, Yazidi cultural reclamation, remembering Alice Wong, vocal fry, “American Gothic” drag, and much more.
How Did We Get Here?
We’re in a time where the act of imagining a better world is considered a threat to society.
Art Movements: Why, Maurizio Cattelan, Why?
In this week’s art news, 15 women artists over 40 get their due, Robbie Williams tries furniture design, and more.
Drunk Santas, Yoko Ono, and Other Joys of DOC NYC
From the disruptive nonsense of Santacon to Kwame Brathwaite’s “Black is Beautiful” movement, here’s what to see or stream.
Gay Sheep Make Their High Fashion Debut in NYC
I Wool Survive featured pieces made with wool from the world’s “first flock of gay sheep.”
Why I Joined the Artists Behind Fall of Freedom
What began as a conversation among a handful of artists has grown into a decentralized creative action, spanning more than 600 events across the country.