Thought to have been feathered, the Dakotaraptor's powerful legs and "sickle claw" gave it an advantage some 66 million years ago. 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
Was the artist's Guggenheim survey a success? What's so "weird" about this year's Whitney Biennial? And other questions.
In this edition: Eschatolgy, Texas style; dancing like nobody’s watching; the men, they myths, the legends; monumental responses; and notes fit for a King.
Neat ethical principles have nothing to say to doctors like me, faced with the brutal, bloody compromises of hospital life - by Ronald W Dworkin Read on Aeon
It’s much easier to walk a tight rope than it is to simply stand in place. Forward momentum creates stability.
“Are you sure it’s going to work?” That’s the wrong question to consider when proposing a study. It’s also not helpful to say, “It’s unlikely to solve the problem.” All the likely approaches have already been tried. The useful steps are: Our fear of failure is real. It’s often
The idea of the classical period—the time of ancient Greece and Rome—as an elegantly unified collection of superior aesthetic and philosophical cultural traits has its own history, one that comes in large part from the era of the Neoclassical. The rediscovery of antiquity took
"A Texas businessman believes he was divinely chosen to help usher in the Second Coming of Christ—by finding unblemished red heifers and getting them to Israel."
Director Rian Johnson (Knives Out, Poker Face) wrote the review of the Thursday crossword puzzle for the NY Times today . “I love a good Thursday. The baffling special graphics, the wait-that-can’t-be-right puzzlement and that glorious ah-ha moment…”
A smaller survey would have allowed for something more meaningful than just showing what Bove has been doing for the past decades.
The artist is now represented by Pace, along with three other galleries. Plus, NYC has a new culture commissioner, closures at art schools, and more industry news.
This week: Iranian heritage sites, a Native artist’s anti-ICE beadwork, France’s Braille Museum, mapping Black-owned bookstores, the business behind America’s sauna frenzy, and more.
It felt like the world as I experience it: no clear path, but enough moments of beauty to convince me to put one foot in front of the other.
Earth’s gravity is lumpy . “The gravity in East Antarctica is measurably weaker than anywhere else on the planet.”
“We're out here rallying to put pressure on the museum to come back to the bargaining table with a bit more movability on their positions,” said one of the workers.
"How the baddest man int he St. Louis underworld failed to become a folk hero."
Oh wow, I love these photographs of “big tusker” elephants by Johan Siggesson. I didn’t even know big tuskers were a thing — and they may not be for much longer : The term “Big Tusker” refers to an elephant with tusks so large they scrape the floor. Unfortunately, the
This is kind of amazing: World Monitor is a real-time global intelligence dashboard. Includes military activity, climate anomalies, live webcam feeds in warzones, internet outages, active fires, and even the Pentagon Pizza Index .
“I work as an attorney during the day and let loose at night in my studio.”
Yes, let’s retire the restaurant monologue . “The urge to direct diners through every bite of a meal runs counter to what I love about dining out, one of just a few cornerstones of American life that have not yet been optimized into oblivion.”
As the lake’s ecological crisis worsens, the artist’s new site-specific installation in Salt Lake City renders audible what is increasingly at risk of vanishing.
From ProPublica, a database of financial disclosures from the Trump regime’s political appointees . “Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team.”
After posting the video on the history of HyperCard the other day, I went down a bit of a HyperCard rabbit hole on the Internet Archive. There are a ton of HyperCard programs, manual & packaging scans, and other resources available on IA ; among them: The Manhole , from the
"How can a creature who will certainly die have an understanding of things that will exist forever?"
View van Gogh's brushstrokes closer than you're allowed to in a museum. 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 Met Introduces High-Definition 3D Scans
Web game: list as many animals as you can in 1 minute (but you get more time with correct guesses).
As she concludes her term as the university’s Distinguished Chair in Photography, Nielsen’s “light paintings” are on view this spring in West Hartford, Connecticut.
In 2017, city planner Jeff Speck gave a talk on the four ways to make a city more walkable: In the typical American city, in which most people own cars and the temptation is to drive them all the time, if you’re going to get them to walk, then you have to offer a walk that’s
Legendary computer scientist Donald Knuth : “Shock! Shock! I learned yesterday that an open problem I’d been working on for several weeks had just been solved by Claude Opus 4.6.”