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Go Behind the Scenes of Blackwing Pencils’ Ode to Analog Creativity
The company shares how pencils are created in a multi-step process in factories in Japan and California. 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 Go Behind
Nordic Textile Takeover: The Cold Stitch
Opening September 4 at Scandinavia House, this exhibition, workshop series, and symposium program returns in its third iteration alongside New York Textile Month.
‘Inploration’ Highlights Dozens of Artists Who Explore Space to Understand Earth
Nearly 100 artists, scientists, astronauts, futurists, and others explore how the cosmos teach us about ourselves. 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 “Conformation Show” and the Pursuit of the Ideal Dog
"Just inside the Farm Bureau Center, the doormats were already covered in fur."
Ann Patchett and Crying at The Met
Art and grief in the author’s new novel, “Whistler,” plus shows to see in Upstate New York this month.
Upend the trickle-down
Neoliberal policies have hollowed out democracies and spawned unchecked oligarchs. Grasping their structure points to a fix - by Les Coleman Read on Aeon
An end to fully open networks
If you have a phone, you can call anyone you like. The recipient doesn’t have to answer, but the network is an open API, available to anyone. The Bell System began as an actual networked system–many companies, using the same protocol, shared calls with each other. When Bell got
Why Inventing Color TV Was So Difficult
Many who read this will remember watching television on a black-and-white set at some point in their lives. Fewer will remember doing so because only black-and-white sets existed. Of course, your own experience will depend upon your country of origin. The United States began
Mildred Howard Wins Artists’ Legacy Foundation Award
Anonymous Was A Woman's environmental art grants, Art Gallery of Ontario director steps down, Alex Katz on PBS, and more in Art Movements.
ICE Seizes 22,000 Antiquities in Florida
The seizure of the allegedly smuggled artifacts comes amid the agency’s escalating violence and the Department of Homeland Security’s waiver of cultural preservation safeguards.




