A tour of the mannequin storage room at FIT . Each...
A tour of the mannequin storage room at FIT . Each era’s mannequins are designed to mimic the “fashionable body” of that time period.
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Remembering Agosto Machado, Keeper of Queer Histories
The late performer and archivist spent decades as the quiet holder of our secrets, always behind the scenes, always a connector.
The Paradoxical Delights of South America’s Biggest Art Fair
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...
An interview with Ronald Wayne , Apple’s forgotten third founder. (He was with the company all of 2 weeks.)
This Risograph Studio Celebrates 400 Artist Postcards Mailed Around the Globe
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
Radiohead Covers Joy Division’s Ceremony
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...
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...
A short analysis of what makes Mark Antony’s “Friends, Romans, countrymen…” speech from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar so good and effective.
In Kyoung Chun: Make Room
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...
Using wiki software, old photos, family stories, bank transactions, social media posts, and an LLM to sift through everything to build a personal encyclopedia .
Menace on the Streets
"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...
“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...
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.
A Wooden Canopy by Kengo Kuma Casts Dappled Light Around a Copenhagen Museum
"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
The Mansion, the Heiress, the Jewel Heist, and Me: A Bel-Air Fairytale
"Sixty-five years ago, my grandfather masterminded a robbery at a historic Los Angeles estate."
Diary Comics From the 1940s
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 &...
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…
Finding the Cattle Queen
"Steakhouse royalty, feminist icon, fungible tourism graphic—she deserves a proper title."
Guggenheim Museum Gets a New Director
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.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
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.
Patterns without desires
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
Creating the conditions for magic
If you’re hoping for this meeting or this performance or this engagement to produce something extraordinary, why are you setting it up as if it’s ordinary? The hard work of a brainstorming session, a pitch collaboration or a negotiation happens long before most people begin. We
What You Would See and Feel While Traveling Near the Speed of Light
We all learn in school, or at least from our more rigorous choices of science fiction, that we’ll never be able to travel faster than the speed of light. At first, this may sound disappointing, but upon reflection, 186,000 miles per second is nothing to sneeze at. Questions
This tiny e-ink reader is small enough to attach to...
This tiny e-ink reader is small enough to attach to the back of your phone.
George Saunders on the Antidote to Regret
"At the end of my life, I know I won’t be wishing I’d held more back, been less effusive, more often stood on ceremony, forgiven less, spent more days oblivious to the secret wishes and fears of the people around me."
The Headless Mary Magdalene by Artemisia Gentileschi
I’m charmed by this fragment of Artemisia Gentileschi’s painting of Mary Magdalene that’s up for auction later this month . For many years it was in a private collection in Germany where it lay rolled up in a cellar. The head of the saint had been cut out of the canvas, under
Between the Impossible and the Inevitable: The Case for...
Between the Impossible and the Inevitable: The Case for Defiance (aka Never F**king Surrender) . “We make the future in the present, when we show up. Don’t surrender it to those who would destroy it.”
Art Movements: Meet The Met's New Photography Curator
Oluremi C. Onabanjo’s new role, grants for Queens artists and orgs, the “pinkest pink” turns 10, and more art industry news.
Hostile Volume is a simple and maddening game where you...
Hostile Volume is a simple and maddening game where you need to hold the audio volume at 25%, which gets increasingly difficult with each level.
Guggenheim Museum Appoints Melissa Chiu as Next Director
After 12 years at the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum, Chiu will be joining the New York institution this coming September.
What If Every City Provided Artists With Free Supplies?
Materials for the Arts offers free tools for teachers and artists in New York, but what if more cities funded programs like ours?
