"It is not about reproducing the past but about engaging in dialogue with it." 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 Inside the Sacred Valley Ceramics
New leader for the Louvre, big mess at the Berlinale, Juliette Lewis turns into a chair, and our heroes drop like flies.
Pundits are saying that Netflix “lost” the bidding for Warner. Actually, they won. They didn’t just win because they got a nearly $3 billion breakup fee. They won because in just about every contentious public auction, the winner is the one who is willing to overpay the most.
Intentionally or not, this year’s edition brought issues of class, labor, and immigration into the fair tent.
Fearing for her safety, Lisette Model buried her photos of artists like Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong, but a new book reveals them to the world.
A boycott targets the infrastructure of complicity — in this instance, the social and cultural normalization of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
This essay is adapted from Traversal. Just before the eleven-year-old Walt Whitman dropped out of school to begin his first job, his parents diverted a portion of their meager working-class means toward a subscription to the radical paper The Free Enquirer, inspired by The
Originally envisioned as a center for collective memory and mourning amid the country’s 70-year armed conflict, the building still sits empty in the middle of Bogotá.
Earn your PhD in Art Theory, Aesthetics, and Philosophy with the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA).
“For months, callers to the Washington state Department of Licensing who have requested automated service in Spanish have instead heard an AI voice speaking English in a strong Spanish accent .”
"Kota Youngblood told his neighbors there were hits out on their lives — and only he could save them."
What does it feel like to be inside a rainbow? 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 Liz West Transforms a Bristol Parking Garage into a Kaleidoscopic
A 2-hour mix of music compiled by Thom Yorke that plays before Radiohead’s European shows.
The Ancient Egyptian “Book of the Dead” turned me into a believer. We talked to the curators and conservators to learn how it came to be.
Ann Ballentine bought an old candy factory building in Brooklyn in 1979. She filled it with working artists and became something of a fairy godmother to them all . It entails someone who’s not as money driven, because you’re not gouging people for huge rents, and it requires
Do people still worship the ancient Greek gods? “Hellenism – also called Hellenic ethnic religion, or Dodekatheism – which is the practice of worshipping ancient gods, has been growing in popularity since the 1990s.”
Jimi Hendrix Was a Systems Engineer . “Hendrix’s mission was to reshape both the electric guitar’s envelope and its tone until it could feel like a human voice.”
Marks found on 40,000-year-old artifacts might be a proto-language . “They found that these sign sequences displayed an information density very similar to the earliest examples of the cuneiform forerunner called proto-cuneiform.”
The aluminum soda can is a humble testament to the power and scope of human ingenuity. If that sounds like hyperbole, you should watch this video, which features eleven solid minutes of engineering explanation and is not boring for even a second. More science/engineering
Pope Leo XIV to his priests: stop using AI to write sermons . “‘To give a homily is to share faith,’ he said, and AI ‘will never be able to share faith.’”
Matthew Smith's capture of two elephant seals in the Falkland Islands earns him to the Underwater Photographer of the Year award. 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
Mondrian Entered the Public Domain. The Estate Disagrees. “Composition II with Red, Blue, and Yellow is in the U.S. public domain. It has been since January 1, 2026. No amount of Spanish law or invented ‘dual copyright’ theories changes that.”
"Many of [life's] big decisions involve choices to have experiences that teach us things we cannot know about from any other source but the experience itself."