What's not to love about a pillow with personality? 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 Playful Knitted Pillows by Donna Wilson Infuse Interiors with
Michael Wellen and José Luis Blondet get the nod, Tate names a new director, and the Immigrant Artist Biennial is back for another edition.
“In extreme cases, it can create a phantom homeland, for the sake of which one is ready to die or kill. Unreflective nostalgia can breed monsters.” On the good and bad types of nostalgia .
The fact that the quill of David d’Angers’s statue of the third US president broke during the nation’s 250th anniversary provides more than an irresistible symbolic trope.
Rebecca Solnit on the Tate brothers, The Odyssey, and the misogyny of classical literature & the contemporary world . “Classical culture is a lot of things including, literally, rape culture.”
The absurdist performance art event at Times Square felt more like an elegy during this national moment.
This week: the Louvre reopens the room where it happens, a Texas artist’s outdoor collection, Nancy Drew in the public domain, Rachel Cusk and Natalie Portman have beef, and more.
Following a prompt from Joanna at Cup of Jo … The local deli or sandwich shop names a sandwich after you. What would be on it? Perhaps another way of asking the question: what’s your favorite sandwich that’s a little bit unusual? I love a classic BLT, banh mi, or jambon
Why are American ambulances so expensive? In part because Medicare pays only a fraction of the actual cost of an ambulance ride and the uninsured often don’t pay at all, so the privately insured get bills of $13,000 for a $2600 ride.
We’re Squandering LEDs’ Potential to Save Our Night Skies . “Our main failure isn’t a technical one. It’s that we have yet to revise our thinking about lighting at night. We use LED technology just as we did the old sources of light.”
In addition to leading the animation studio at the National Film Board of Canada, René Jodoin made several animated films that explored geometric forms and motion, including the one above, A Matter of Form from 1984. Set to the rousing notes of Schubert’s Military March, this
For more than four decades, the artist has reimagined the technical and sculptural capabilities of one simple material: twigs. 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.
An online edition of all 85 of the Federalist Papers , presented as they were originally serialized in newspapers, with on eye on good typography and readability .
“ This map shows the predicted density of underground networks created by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. These networks form one of Earth’s circulatory systems, moving massive amounts of carbon, nutrients, and water across plant communities.”
“The Carr family took in Steven Judy, hoping to ‘save’ a troubled teen. They didn’t know he would become one of the most hated men in America.”
To the trained eye, the personalised homes of Queens, NYC, evoke everything from a Venetian streetscape to a Chinese temple - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
The late artist’s digital paintings at Serpentine, Tate gets a new director, beyond the myth of Brazilian modernist Chico da Silva, and more.
Rooted in Brazilian modernism, anthropophagy devours and transforms culture, subverting colonial fears of cannibalism - by Sofia Cándano Read on Aeon
Writing is always going to be hard and why it's worth the struggle.
One of the best traditional bakeries in New York has a kitchen you can see from the counter. People wait in line for their handmade French baguettes, and the confirmation that they were made right here and right now is reassuring. I noticed that the baker was using a mechanical
Though it’s traditionally meant “last in a progression or series,” as Merriam-Webster puts it, the word ultimate has been more often used in recent decades to mean “the best or most extreme of its kind.” The name of a recently launched digital archive performs a rare inversion,
We previously brought you the BBC series of short animated videos, A History of Ideas. Produced in collaboration with the UK’s Open University and narrated by Harry Shearer, these fun introductions to such philosophers as Simone de Beauvoir and Edmund Burke, and such weighty
Oh wow, The Verge made a 70-minute video on how The Clapper became a viral sensation . When I was a kid, we didn’t have a Clapper, no one I knew had one, and I couldn’t understand why every single household didn’t have one of these magical devices.
Leaders of New York’s Museum of Chinese failed to persuade protesters that a $35 million grant from the city was not tied to the construction of a borough jail.
Well, this is just absolutely lovely: photographer and artist Jan Erik Waider shot these videos of cracked-but-unbroken Baltic Sea ice undulating with the gentle motion of the sea. Mesmerizing…I could watch these for hours. Tags: Jan Erik Waider · mesmerizing · video
The British curator will return to London to helm the museum network beginning next year.
"A dramatic shift in perspective is producing a much bigger, broader and more exciting view of ‘the ancient world.’"
The question of what it takes to create — to make something of beauty and substance that touches other lives across space and time — is one of the deepest, oldest questions, perhaps because the answer to it is so unbearably simple: everything. We bring everything we are and
Presenting da Silva with Amazonian artists of different generations undermines the Western notion of the artist as an isolated genius.
What do America’s earliest restaurant menus teach us about America? “A menu describes what a restaurant serves — but a menu also describes who is being served. They reflect the class, gender, political, technological, and environmental shifts of history.”