In a recent video , Kurzgesagt explores what we know about the first human civilizations that formed some 12,000 years ago and how they led to the first cities and the invention of writing. What we know about human history is only a fraction of the full story. Much of the rest
The Albuquerque-based artist explores contemporary Assyrian experience through pattern, fashion, and autobiography. 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
“He embraced people wholeheartedly, recognized what they needed, and connected them with opportunities and with one another,” said Calvillo’s colleague.
All Manner of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group, Curated by Nada Shabout, on view at the NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery through January 3, 2027
In two new books, the artist weaves her archive of photos, ephemera, and flyers into the story of ’90s Chicanx youth culture, tracing both a personal and collective coming-of-age.
Do you think you could write down the names of 3000 people? “As part of a competition with a few friends, I attempted the very dumb challenge of trying to write the names of 3,000 real people in one sitting. It took 7 hours, but I did it.”
"Oh comforting solitude, how favorable thou art to original thought!"
“Our attention is all we have. And we already gave away a huge percentage of it to machine learning algorithms 10 years ago, and we are living in an intensely different and I think worse world because of it.” Was 2016 a sneaky inflection point?
"Geographies of Distance" offers a polysemous reading of home during a period of accelerated urbanization in India.
What’s causing this unusually long cloud on Mars?
Paul Ramírez Jonas debuted his participatory artwork “Public Trust” months before Trump was first elected. A decade on, it feels more urgent than ever.
The curator and writer is heading to the University of Minnesota institution after seven years at Indiana University's Eskenazi Museum of Art.
The Lakota poet reflects on the visual art in her new book, 10 art titles we’re reading this month, and a biography of Beverly Buchanan sets the record straight.
"I used to blanket my practice as being about ‘altered states,’” the artist told Hyperallergic, “but these days I speak more about faith and belief.”
Voting stickers appeared across memorials dedicated to Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Alex Pretti, both of whom were killed by ICE agents earlier this year.
The soundtrack for Wipeout XL (aka Wipeout 2097) was crazy for a video game; it featured tracks from groups like Underworld, Orbital, The Prodigy, Daft Punk, and Chemical Brothers. I had this on CD! Ripped it and played ‘em on Winamp!
Hyperallergic’s Halloween Party, Cici Wu’s memory-laden lanterns, and an Epstein survivor’s urgent message for MoMA.
'Eight Seconds: Legacy in Motion' features 91 new images that spotlight the people and places integral to Black rodeo culture. 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.
"A.I. is solving problems that stumped the field for decades. Mathematicians look to Terence Tao for guidance on their altered world."
An important KDO milestone whooshed by the other day and I was so heads-down on tuning up the new search engine (more on that below) that I missed it. So: it’s been 10 years since I started the KDO membership program ! (Quick recap of the value proposition from the membership
"Ultimately, we are puppets of both pain and pleasure, occasionally made free by our creativity."
'Wherever You Are, Remember Me' opens on November 7 at Roberts Projects in Los Angeles. 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 Collins Obijiaku’s Tender
Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data Empires by Paris Marx. “He exposes the deceptive, exploitative ways tech companies are siphoning energy and resources from vulnerable communities in their pursuit of digital power…”
Vugar Efendi has made a pair of videos showing scenes from films that have been inspired by famous paintings. The second video is especially good, showing references in There Will Be Blood, Lost In Translation, and a Jacques-Louis David reference from About Schmidt. [This is a
We rounded up key races and where candidates stand on culture funding, AI, and more.
The separation of church and state has an unspoken psychological basis: we choose what we believe, but not what we think - by Neil Van Leeuwen & Jacob Eisler Read on Aeon
Futility: It might feel like it doesn’t matter.Fear: Of choosing wrong, or doing it wrong.Responsibility: It isn’t given, it’s taken. Which is why so many leave it on the table.Possibility: Showing up to have your say could change things for the better.Identity: This is what
Over 100,000 people move to the San Francisco Bay Area each year. Their motivations for doing so no doubt vary, but these days, the ambition to make a fortune at the epicenter of the tech industry — especially amid the rapidly inflating AI bubble — is hardly unheard of.
For five years, I’ve investigated a man convicted of bludgeoning his wife to death. Somewhere along the way, the line between journalism and friendship blurred.
In 1962, the animator Fyodor Khitruk made his directorial debut with Story of One Crime, a film that broke with a Soviet tendency to make imitations of Disney-style animations. The film, as The Guardian explained in its 2012 obituary for the animator, came as a shock. It was
"The mind narrates what the nervous system knows. Story follows state."
"Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life."