It doesn’t take too long a look at the almost surrealistically clean-lined buildings of Walter Gropius to get the impression that the man wanted to usher in a new world, especially when you consider that many of them went up before World War II. Take the Bauhaus Dessau
"A centuries-old tradition in the Forest of Dean • England's only independent miners • 'We can be your best friend or your worst enemy.'"
The city is in a deep affordability crisis that is reshaping who can live and work here, and which institutions can survive.
If you haven’t seen this or heard about it (or even if you have), the full story of this McDonald’s mural is well worth your time . “Giving that talk…was one of the greatest moments of my life. Bar none.” (Don’t skip the video!)
A Brooklyn zine fair, an exhibition on sex and cults, and other activities to spend the day with your lover, your polycule, or just yourself.
As you know, I love me some Lego engineering builds . This one is pretty fun: using a large syringe, a Raspberry Pi, neodymium magnets, a controller scavenged from a toy submarine, and a bunch of Lego pieces, Brick Experiment Channel built a remote-controlled submarine . And it
Spider-Noir is an upcoming live-action series starring Nicolas Cage as his noir Spider-Man character from Spider-Verse. The trailer is available in color and black & white .
Makó's images delve into uncanny realms and evoke a dreamlike sense of unfettered imagination. 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 Szilveszter Makó’s
The Track is a documentary film about a group of athletes training in post-war Bosnia to make the Olympics in luge. The Track is a coming-of-age journey of three friends chasing their improbable Olympic dreams in post-war Bosnia. Training on a crumbling track left behind from
"Researchers at the company are trying to understand their A.I. system’s mind—examining its neurons, running it through psychology experiments, and putting it on the therapy couch."
Tina Rivers Ryan steps down from the disgraced publication, the Studio Museum names three artists-in-residence, and a deeply unnecessary new Jeff Koons collab.
Fun word search game from Slate: Pears . (I love any Boggle-esque sort of game. Got 433 today .)
This week: Gladys Nilsson subverts ageist myths, letters from children in ICE detention, Heathcliff and whiteness, Toñita at the Super Bowl, Japanese incense clocks, and more.
“ ‘CEO said a thing!’ journalism generally involves a press outlet parroting the claims of a CEO or billionaire utterly mindlessly without any sort of useful historical context as to whether anything being said is factually correct .”
Here, the term is reclaimed not as an insult but as an ethical position: art that refuses neutrality, civility, or institutional comfort.
“Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its centre but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark matter exerting the same gravitational influence.”
"You’ll long for me when I’m gone... You'll kiss the headstone of my grave... Kiss my face instead!"
"If you can acknowledge it and you can relax with it a little bit, very often it shortens its duration."
The Origins of One of the Most Beloved Video Games of All Time . “Something I’ve heard from every Mario developer I’ve ever spoken to over the years is this: Whenever you press a button, something fun should happen.”
“Touching the soil fuels my imagination, and it shows in the canvases.”
Michelle Zauner (Crying in H Mart) on the 30th anniversary of Infinite Jest . “If you allow yourself to trust-fall into the barbed intricacies of the writing, you will discover soft, exquisite humanity as its perennial landing.”
Sara Hussain for Vogue India: In 2026, I’m No Longer Interested in ‘Working on Myself’ , aka the exhausting “hyper-policing [of] our thoughts and language until having a personality feels like a risk assessment exercise”. Everything began to feel like a diagnostic exercise. If
"What does it mean to care for, drape, dress, and accommodate change and instability?" 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 Ethereal Kites by Hai-Wen
“Any serious push to account for the actions of this government — to abolish the president’s private army, restructure immigration enforcement and punish anyone responsible for wrongdoing — must include recompense and repair for its victims .”
When Gmail was released as a public beta in 2004, it “ ran on three hundred old Pentium III computers nobody else at Google wanted ”.
Actor-style headshots from the 80s of artists like Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons, Jenny Holzer, and Robert Longo.
"You are this body, and you are these molecules, and you are these atoms, and you are these quantum entities, and you are the quantum foam, and you are the energetic field of space-time, and, ultimately, you are the fundamental awareness out of which all these emerge."
David’s handcrafted figurines pay tribute to cultural icons. His latest project takes on his greatest hero, his late brother - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Amy Sherald’s solo show breaks attendance records, remembering artists we lost this week, and an exhibition proves critical theory doesn’t have to be a snore.
"After years of concern over so-called “fluoro” waxes, the Milan Cortina Games will be the first Olympics without them."
In their visions of the underworld Dante and Milton were truly subversive, incorporating predecessors into their own repudiation - by Charlie Ericson Read on Aeon
There is plenty of unintentional harm in our world. We’ve all been bruised or derailed by someone who had no ill intent. We often respond with intentional harm, to make a point and to teach a lesson. The alternative is clarity. Shared understanding instead of intentional pain.
The playwright Tristan Bernard is said to have eaten lunch at the Eiffel Tower every day, but not because he liked the menu in its café: rather, because it was the only place in Paris with no view of the Eiffel Tower. His view wasn’t wholly eccentric in the decades after its
Love, Actually, Never Died: A reading list on the evolution of the romantic comedy.