Organized by Capture the Atlas, the 2026 Milky Way Photographer of the Year saw a record number of submissions from around the globe. 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
A brief history: lessons from the rise and fall of Reconstruction . “Must America be forever defined by strict hierarchies of race, gender, religion, and wealth – or can the nation finally realize its promise of egalitarian pluralism?”
Plus, Forge Project's 2026 fellows, the Robert Therrien Estate leaves Gagosian for Zwirner, and this year's Frieze uniform.
This week: Mamdani honors garment workers, a fake exchange with Sophie Calle, the first Black American tattoo artist, RIP Spirit Airlines, and more.
The website for the Abolitionist Guide to NYC is just getting started, but the site does house an Abolitionist Map of NYC . The Abolitionist Map of NYC offers a geographic survey of incarceration and anti-carceral resistance in Manahatta from the Dutch colonization of
"In some ways, the world is cooked. But being a twelve-year-old still kind of eats."
Staffers say they were forced to take action after negotiations for a new contract remained stalled for nearly two years.
Chess Peace is an iOS puzzle game where you have to place chess pieces on a board so that none of them attack each other. Simple + clever!
“The Christophers” is a twisty, delightful yet profound comedy that encouraged me to question my own relationship to art.
One of the coolest things about honey is its theoretically infinite shelf-life. 3000-year-old jars of still-edible honey have been found in Egyptian tombs — they used it medicinally for all sorts of things.
The Northern California-based artist explores nature as a reflection of our inner lives. 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 Jake Messing’s
After the last two Biennales searched the soul and history of this nation, how did we end up with this art from the land of the bland?
Presented by the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the Taiwan Collateral Event transforms the space into a dynamic stage at the Palazzo delle Prigioni.
"Some of us are crying in H Mart; some of us are mourning in Costco."
Ok, this is incredible: this person on Reddit discovered that if you take a bunch of the sequential photos of the Earth captured by the Artemis II crew and animate them, you can see that some of what appear to be stars are actually satellites , buzzing around the Earth like
“Podcast sloplords” are flooding the zone with AI-generated podcasts . By one count, almost 40% of new podcasts are written by AI chatbots and presented by “AI voice synthesizers [that] can sound eerily humanlike”.
Lines, Ranked . “2. Assembly. It’s not glamorous, but hot damn is it effective.”
Werning's chronicle of a time-honored Latin American Indigenous tradition highlights patience, joy, and cultural pride. 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
"On cartoons, colors, ferris wheels, Father’s Day, Prince, coming out, the internet, and me."
What if the tools for sustainable space exploration could be found in cellular life on Earth? A NASA astrobiologist explains - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Rallies and revelations about the Israeli pavilion, shows to see in Upstate New York, and remembering Steven Durland.
Genetic studies support what historians have argued for decades: ancient India was a place of migration and mixture - by Kiran Kumbhar Read on Aeon
"Colorado’s San Luis Valley was a wildlife poacher’s paradise. Then an undercover federal agent arrived."
Sit back, relax, put on some music (I’ve found Chopin’s Nocturne in B major well-suited), and watch the video above, a silent data visualization by visionary architect and systems theorist Buckminster Fuller, “the James Brown of industrial design.” The short film from 1965
In our dreams, the laws of thermodynamics don’t apply, and gravity works in strange ways. We can jump across a chasm and stick the landing on the other side. This freedom is important. It’s part of what makes a dream, a dream. It’s not just the physics of moving matter, though.
Yasujirō Ozu was born in 1903, and made films from the late nineteen-twenties up until his death in 1963. Though not an especially long life, it spanned Japan’s pre- and postwar eras, meaning that in many ways, it ended in a very different country than it began. Not that you’d
A longtime editor of High Performance magazine in Los Angeles, Durland maintained his own practice while advocating for the art form.
Belu-Simion Fainaru alleged antisemitism and discrimination after the jury decided to exclude Israel from awards, new reports reveal.
A supercut of context-free intertitles from Adam Curtis documentaries . Even if you don’t know who Adam Curtis is, this is entertaining.
Irina Lotarevich’s edgy minimalism, Koyoltzintli’s investigations into a sacred object, Daniele Frazier’s explorations in camera-less photography, and more.
