There are few career paths where a professional mishap leads to great success, but Cecilia Giménez found one. The Spanish artist, who died this week at the age of 94, rose to fame and notoriety in the 2010s for her delightful “restoration” of “Ecce Homo,
"The noise between the world in which we had known each other and the world I occupied now went silent, or maybe only hushed."
If you buy an Ikea table, you’ll need 8 bolts to put it together. 7 is not enough. This is a functional sort of ‘enough.’ It can be critical to our survival. “I have enough medication to last through this illness.” “We have enough food to feed our family.” But this isn’t the
It wouldn’t surprise us to come across a Japanese person in Venice. Indeed, given the global touristic appeal of the place, we could hardly imagine a day there without a visitor from the Land of the Rising Sun. But things were different in 1873, just five years after the end of
A Canadian TV show about gay hockey romance unexpectedly became a moment of tender (but sexy) relief in an increasingly unfair world.
Yesterday I linked to a Windows 3.x NYT crossword puzzle app from 1992 that you can play directly on the Internet Archive. I was a Windows user back in the day (my conversion to Apple didn’t happen until the early 00s) and so of course I had to see what other Win3.x games they
The singer and rapper posted a photo of himself with his hand on a carved stone stele at the National Museum of Anthropology.
A wildlife photographer “discovered thousands of dinosaur footprints preserved in the vertical face of a mountainside” in the Italian Alps dating back 200M years. “This is now really one of the most important places for Triassic dinosaur footprints.” 💬 Join the discussion on
The Spanish artist delighted the world with her intervention on a church fresco lovingly dubbed “Beast Jesus.”
The Spanish artist and conservator delighted the world and gained a cult following thanks to her intervention on a church fresco lovingly dubbed “Beast Jesus.”
Each year, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center awards a $20,000 grant to an artist based anywhere in the world working in the spirit of BMC.
Toby Buckle for the New Republic: The Americans Who Saw All This Coming — But Were Ignored and Maligned . This is not that far from the position many ordinary Americans found themselves in at the start of the Trump era. They weren’t time travelers but saw what was coming
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This exhibition at Salt explores the Tapestry Studio’s approach to art education and production.
Oh this is devilish… a game where you have make to 45 groups of 45 items each by matching two at a time . Must take hours? (Where’s the multiplayer option when you need it?) 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Along with Sinners and One Battle After Another, 1 Wake Up Dead Man is one of my favorite films of the year. So I enjoyed director Rian Johnson breaking down the investigative scene in the bar in this Vanity Fair video . This is, for me, even a little more personal than the
ProPublica launches Rx Inspector database . “We’ve launched a first-of-its-kind app to help you find out where your generic drugs come from and see the track records of the factories that made them.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
From Lit Hub, the best audiobooks of 2025 . (It’s not new, but I just started listening to Milkman by Anna Burns and it’s really good so far.) 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
The 20 Best Podcasts of 2025 , incl. Signal Hill (“this inventive program functions like an audio magazine”) and Our Ancestors Were Messy (“this delightful show recounts stories from the pre-civil-rights era in the vein of social pages & gossip columns”). 💬 Join the discussion
At Villa Lontana in Rome, 'Bar Far' is a functional bar and an art installation in one. 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 Clementine Keith-Roach and