Biennial Hangover
Impressions from the Whitney Biennial, DePaul Art Museum closes, Carol Bove at the Guggenheim, and how to cure "creative hangover."
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10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This March
The artists of Nature Morte gallery, Hayv Kahraman’s painted libations, Jesse Wiedel’s screwball American dream, the late Nona Olabisi’s homegrown muralism, and more.
Israel-US Strikes Damage Tehran’s Historic Golestan Palace
The Qajar monument contains priceless Iranian art and manuscripts.
These Are the People in This Neighborhood
Can’t stop, won’t stop. On the heels of the refreshed Rolodex from earlier in the week , I’ve pushed another “Just Enough Social” feature to the site: members bios & profile pics. Here’s what that looks like: Members can find a link to their profile by 1) clicking on your
The Political Potential of the Chinatown Storefront
Abrons Arts Center is hosting its annual Lunar New Year mutual aid initiative, where art highlights and supports local businesses.
“Jeffrey Epstein Walk of Shame” Pops Up in DC
The guerrilla artwork includes “stars” for MoMA trustee Leon Black, arts patron Les Wexner, and over a dozen other individuals mentioned in the Epstein files.
Petrit Halilaj’s Opera of Kosovan Memory and Myth
Through his fantastical vignettes, Halilaj suggests curiosity about others as a way to neutralize the forces that lead to difference-based violence.
Lots of great defecation physics here: “ 66 percent...
Lots of great defecation physics here: “ 66 percent of animals take between 5 and 19 seconds to defecate. It’s a…small range, given that elephant feces have a volume of 20 liters, nearly a thousand times more than a dog’s, at 10 milliliters .”
Buckle Up for Bumpier Skies
"With climate change, the skies are becoming more turbulent. Can today’s planes still keep us safe?"
Forget About Getting Your AI Art Copyrighted
The US Supreme Court declines to hear a years-long case on the matter, leaving one famous AI art crusader out in the cold.
The New School Cancelled Their Class on Soccer and World...
The New School Cancelled Their Class on Soccer and World Politics. We Are Going To Teach it Anyway. Enrollment is now open; the class will deal with questions like “Which regimes are using this tournament to launder their reputations?”
SETI might be missing alien signals because...
SETI might be missing alien signals because “stellar ‘space weather’ may blur ultra-narrow radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations before they leave their home star systems”. SETI usually looks for “extremely sharp frequency spikes”.
Doris Lessing on How to Read a Book and How to Read the World
Born in Iran and raised in Zimbabwe, Doris Lessing (October 22, 1919–November 17, 2013) was fourteen when she dropped out of school and eighty-eight when she won the Nobel Prize for smelting language into keys to “the prisons we choose to live inside.” Having lived in writing
Teacher v Chatbot: My Journey Into the Classroom in the Age Of AI
"Throwing AI into the mix felt like downing a coffee in the middle of a panic attack."
Virginia Woolf on Love
“I think we moderns lack love,” Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882–March 28, 1941) diagnosed us in the first year of our deadliest war. The paradox is that when we lack something long enough, we forget what it looks like, what it means, how to recognize it when it comes along.
Octavia Butler on Change and the Meaning of God
On change, the measure of intelligence, the courage to take responsibility for our own lives.
“For the Colonel, It Was Finger-Lickin’ Bad”
Here’s a gem from the archive of the NY Times. One day in September 1976, NY Times food critic Mimi Sheraton and Colonel Harland Sanders stopped into a Manhattan Kentucky Fried Chicken . The Colonel, then estranged from the company he founded, strolled into the kitchen after
The Met Introduces High-Definition 3D Scans of Dozens of...
The Met Introduces High-Definition 3D Scans of Dozens of Art Historical Objects , including Egyptian temples , Greek oil flasks , van Gogh paintings , and cuneiform tablets .
‘Lettres Décoratives’ Is a Celebration of Fin de Siècle Sign Painters’ Vibrant Letterforms
The book from Letterform Archive celebrates the vivacity of French sign painting from the 19th and early 20th centuries. 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
“If measles-mumps-rubella vaccination rates decline...
“If measles-mumps-rubella vaccination rates decline 1% annually for the next five years, associated medical and societal costs could reach $1.5 billion .” (That 1% is a conservative estimate “given current policy and coverage trajectory”.)