Ira Glass’s Subway Take is genuinely shocking: “Every podcast is better at...
Ira Glass’s Subway Take is genuinely shocking : “Every podcast is better at 2.0 speed!” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
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Come See Me in the Good Light
It’s not often that a movie trailer makes you cry — but this one might. 1 Come See Me in the Good Light is a documentary film about poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley facing a cancer diagnosis that took Gibson’s life earlier this year. This is the beginning of a nightmare,
My First Months in Cyberspace
"The earlier internet was a haven, everyone making it up as they went along."
Inside NORAD’s Cheyenne Mountain Combat Center (c. 1966)
Flashbak has a collection of photos that offer an inside look at NORAD’s Cheyenne Mountain Combat Center as it looked in the mid-60s . These display screens would display signs of air attack against Canada and the United States. By pushing buttons, the NORAD battle staff
The Goodest Boys of NYC’s Halloween Dog Parade
This year's event was a bit corporate, very chaotic, and incredibly cute.
Sharon Lockhart’s Beguiling Tableaus of Children in Nature
Windward pulls us into an almost prelapsarian vision of childhood existence on Newfoundland’s Fogo Island: no phones, no screens, no sense of impending climate crisis.
Art in Odd Places Resists by Doing “Nothing”
After losing its state funding, the East Village festival scrapped its plans for a 20th anniversary celebration and chose a new theme: “nothing.”
Why the Right Can’t Stand the “No Kings” Aesthetic
The growing movement’s visual language includes protest art and costumes that subvert President Trump's patriotic iconography.
The Beauty in the IRL
In Marta Lee’s solo show, I found a measure for reality that had never occurred to me to try before: painting.
10 Art Books to Read This Month
Hew Locke’s new monograph, an anthology of the Studio Museum’s collection, Brandon Taylor’s latest novel, and more to dive into this October.
Nikon’s Small World Photomicrography Competition Reveals the Vastly Unseen
Life's smallest details. 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 Nikon’s Small World Photomicrography Competition Reveals the Vastly Unseen appeared first
Arroz Imperial and the Taste Of Regret
"Miami’s famous casserole is a dish meant to be shared. (That’s where I went wrong.)"
Phil Gyford, writing about when he first got online in 1995: My...
Phil Gyford, writing about when he first got online in 1995: My First Months in Cyberspace . “It was a miracle and it changed my life. All of our lives.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
MCA Chicago Presents the US Debut of Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind
Explore the life and work of the renowned artist and discover new ways of imagining the world in this groundbreaking retrospective, on view through February 22, 2026.
Through Fractured Forms, Kat Kristof Renders the Architecture of the Mind
"My work explores the architecture of the mind. These are scattered, fragmented, and riotous projections of self," Kristof says. 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
What I Wish I Had Known About Germany Earlier
A German newspaper commissioned an article from me but then refused to publish it.
Sumo Tourists in London
I’m totally charmed by these snaps of some of the best sumo wrestlers in the world touring London. The athletes were in London for a 5-day event at the Royal Albert Hall . London’s Victorian concert venue has been utterly transformed, complete with six-tonne Japanese
The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time, According to 750,000 Readers in the UK (2003)
In the eighteenth century, the readers of Europe went mad for epistolary novels. France had, to name the most sensational examples, Montesquieu’s Lettres persanes, Rousseau’s Julie, and Laclos’ Les Liaisons dangereuses; Germany, Goethe’s Die Leiden des jungen Werther and
Step Into Creativity: The Other Art Fair Brooklyn Returns With Bold New Experiences
Brooklyn, it’s your time to play with art. 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 Step Into Creativity: The Other Art Fair Brooklyn Returns With Bold New
Anil Dash on The Majority AI View. “Stop being so goddamn creepy...
Anil Dash on The Majority AI View . “Stop being so goddamn creepy and weird about the technology! It’s just tech, everything doesn’t have to become some weird religion that you beat people over the head with, or gamble the entire stock market on.”
Nengiren’s Embroidered Little Woman
How cool are these embroidered Nona Kecil (“little woman”) figures by Indonesian artist Irene Saputra, aka Nengiren . She explained to Colossal what the figures signify: Nona Kecil’s evolution mirrors my own journey as an artist. Initially, she adorned simple OOTDs with muted
I’d never heard of this before: tearoom ambient, a style of music...
I’d never heard of this before: tearoom ambient , a style of music that arose in post-revolution Czechoslovakia, influenced by new age, ambient, and minimalism music newly imported from the west. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Antique Writing Desks Converge with African Masks in Sonia E. Barrett’s Sculptures
"These heads can join with African diasporan bodies and enable us to reach back, as they enabled our ancestors," the artist says. 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
Apple TV to air F1 races in the US for the next...
Apple TV to air F1 races in the US for the next 5 years . This is interesting: “Select races and all practice sessions will also be available for free in the Apple TV app.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
How the Hardy Boys Book Series Cracked the Case of Getting Kids Hooked on Reading
One author has been credited with creating the virtuous teenagers’ thrilling adventures for almost a century. But there’s a story behind that, too
Children of war
Conversations with teenagers from unstable or war-torn nations across the world, on a unique tour to Canada 40 years ago - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Hidden in plain sight
Jewish children who were ‘hidden’ in Christian families during the Holocaust have much to teach us about memory and trauma - by Carolyn Ariella Sofia Read on Aeon
Foggy mirror
It’s easy to believe we have an accurate understanding of ourselves. After all, we spend a lot of time looking in the mirror. It might be worth wondering about why the mirror is deemed to be accurate at reflecting what we see as our flaws, real or metaphorical, but indistinct
The First Electric Guitar: Behold the 1931 “Frying Pan”
The names Leo Fender and Les Paul will be forever associated with the explosion of the electric guitar into popular culture. And rightly so. Without engineer Fender and musician and studio wiz Paul’s timeless designs, it’s hard to imagine what the most iconic instruments of