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Charles Harley on Subway Takes: “I don’t think Black...
Charles Harley on Subway Takes : “I don’t think Black people should have to pay for ancestry.com. Why do I have to pay you to figure out where you stole me from?”
Illustrator and writer Luis Mendo’s second book is out....
Illustrator and writer Luis Mendo’s second book is out . “The only website that once a year becomes a book.” I have Book One and it’s lovely…
Cannupa Hanska Luger’s Truth About America
The beauty of the Native artist’s forms seduces, but the visual history of destruction is embedded into each element.
Artavazd Pelechian’s Distant Connections
Through his “distance montage” technique, the Armenian filmmaker’s masterpieces are built around impressions, not stories.
Tanya Merrill's Animal Instinct
After a move upstate and a newborn, Merrill’s new work responds to the world around her.
Chromatic Inkscapes
I love these digital illustrations by Adam Fuhrer ; he calls them chromatic aberrations . It was difficult to narrow them down to the few favorites above. I posted about Fuhrer’s pen plotted art a couple of years ago …I like the direction he’s taking this. Tags: Adam Fuhrer ·
This Ron DeSantis Statue Can’t Take the Heat
The climate group 350 Action’s gallium statue began melting soon after being installed outdoors in Tallahassee on October 13.
The Other Significant Others: Living and Loving Outside the Confines of Conventional Friendship and Compulsory Coupledom
"While we weaken friendships by expecting too little of them, we undermine romantic relationships by expecting too much of them."
Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for Living Through the Visitations of the Darkness
"If you can acknowledge it and you can relax with it a little bit, very often it shortens its duration."
Margaret Atwood in 2023: Go Ahead and Ban My Book. “It’s...
Margaret Atwood in 2023: Go Ahead and Ban My Book . “It’s very hard to control what young people get their hands on, especially if they’re told something is too old for them, or too evil, or too immoral.”
Roooobot. Huuuuuman.
This woman does some amazing things with a series of white rings — lots of precision optical illusions. It’s mesmerizing watching people moving like machines — an interesting psychological thing. Like Avantgardey , which if you haven’t heard of them (just because they show up
Faith and Its Contradictions in “9 Temples to Heaven”
Director Sompot Chidgasornpongse, who has a knack for patient observation, follows a single family on a quest to find a miracle.
Massive King Ramses II Statues Unearthed in Egypt
The two sculptures were discovered after a citizen found a hieroglyph-etched stone on his property.
The trailer for Blade Runner 2099, a new limited series...
The trailer for Blade Runner 2099 , a new limited series premiering in late November and starring Michelle Yeoh & Hunter Schafer.
Going 94 MPH on a Skateboard (New World Record)
Diego Poncelet recently set a new world record for the fastest speed on a skateboard. The old record was 146.7 km/h (91.2 mph) and he hit 151.8 km/h (94.3 mph). There are a couple of parts you can skip, but watching most of the video is worth it because you see the process and
A View From the Easel: Allan Wexler
“My past sculptures [and] tools act as levers that pry ideas from my mind.”
I played (not) solitaire for more hands than I would care...
I played (not) solitaire for more hands than I would care to admit. “A multiplayer game where the multiplayer was about companionship, empathy, and comfort, instead of competition or even interaction.”
Robin F. Williams Suspends the Allure and Horror of Technology in an Endless Loop
Robin F. Williams extrapolates on the ways humanity and machines could merge, capturing a strange techno-dystopia. 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
The “Renegade Housewife” of Pop Art
Stories from a pioneering journalist and art worker, John Yau on Valerio Adami, and books of warp and weft for your reading list.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Highlighting stories by Melanie Challenger, Eve Livingston, M.R. O’Connor, Gordon Peake, and Blair Braverman.
The School of Art at the University of Arkansas Offers Tuition-Free Graduate Programs
Applications are now open for the 2027–2028 academic year.
How to be a (Roman) man
Cicero’s ideal of manly virtue stressed the performance of self-control and bravery, not boastful egotism and domination - by Catharine Edwards Read on Aeon
A good worker
The truth is, I’m not a good worker. I’ve had very few traditional jobs, and my performance on typical tasks was poor. Work the exact hours, do precisely what’s asked, don’t ask questions and focus on what the boss wants. We modeled ‘good worker’ behavior in school. “Will this
How Vincent van Gogh’s Sister-in-Law Worked Tirelessly to Make Him Famous
No artist, no matter how solitary by nature, becomes a cultural phenomenon alone. That’s even true of such an isolated figure as Vincent van Gogh, whose death in obscurity at the age of 37 left open the question of who, if anyone, would vouchsafe his paintings to posterity. The