We all learn in school, or at least from our more rigorous choices of science fiction, that we’ll never be able to travel faster than the speed of light. At first, this may sound disappointing, but upon reflection, 186,000 miles per second is nothing to sneeze at. Questions
This tiny e-ink reader is small enough to attach to the back of your phone.
I’m charmed by this fragment of Artemisia Gentileschi’s painting of Mary Magdalene that’s up for auction later this month . For many years it was in a private collection in Germany where it lay rolled up in a cellar. The head of the saint had been cut out of the canvas, under
Between the Impossible and the Inevitable: The Case for Defiance (aka Never F**king Surrender) . “We make the future in the present, when we show up. Don’t surrender it to those who would destroy it.”
Oluremi C. Onabanjo’s new role, grants for Queens artists and orgs, the “pinkest pink” turns 10, and more art industry news.
Hostile Volume is a simple and maddening game where you need to hold the audio volume at 25%, which gets increasingly difficult with each level.
After 12 years at the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum, Chiu will be joining the New York institution this coming September.
Materials for the Arts offers free tools for teachers and artists in New York, but what if more cities funded programs like ours?
International Chess Federation Adds Race Car Piece . “The race car piece gets to go twice in one turn because it’s so fast.” Smart to capitalize on F1’s popularity; they should do my fave Monopoly piece next (the iron).
Fia Backström's Queens Museum exhibition replaces beauty and complexity with a visual and narrative language that reduces the region to a site of suffering.
It is her home, her landscape, her family and friends, portrayed in these images that feel miles away from her contemporaries’ modernist abstraction.
"Wind carries away destinies," reads a brief synopsis for the short film. 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 A Strong Gust of Wind Disrupts the
Instead of being an object against the wall, Novros made his intricate, multi-paneled paintings with it in mind.
This week: Compton’s forthcoming art center, a Lebanese artist’s workshops for displaced children, dog sledding in Yukon, the NGA goes viral on TikTok, stop-motion versus AI, and more.
Bill Hammack, aka The Engineer Guy , is an amazing engineering educator and in this video he explains how duct tape is designed to simultaneously do three things well: “a) adhere with light pressure, b) stay in place, yet c) be removable”. Controlling the stickiness of tape is
The artist's works are an invitation to consider the inner self. 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 Abi Castillo’s Ceramic Beings Contrast Delicacy
Someone ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii . “Since its launch in 2007, the Wii has seen several operating systems ported to it: Linux, NetBSD, and most-recently, Windows NT. Today, Mac OS X joins that list.”
“It scarred countless children—and allegedly left one dead. Many still believe it was all real. Some of it was.”
“Working with agents feels much less like classic deep work, and much more like playing a game .”
How to Guess If Your Job Will Exist in Five Years . “There’s a better question for white-collar workers to ask themselves: Am I coal, or am I a horse?”
"A reflection on how the poets Richard Siken and Anne Carson responded to losing their language."
I really love these collages by Anton Elfilter ( Instagram , Threads ). They are digital-ish? But also not? And does anyone else see the influence of Hilma af Klint in these? (via moss & fog ) Tags: Anton Elfilter · art · design
Farmers won their right-to-repair fight against John Deere . The settlement includes a 10-year “agreement by Deere to provide ‘the digital tools required for the maintenance, diagnosis, and repair’ of tractors, combines, and other machinery”.
The Mississippi Museum of Art exhibition highlights the Southern artist's artistic way of life. 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 ‘Love Is a
"LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity."
This sounds like an interesting podcast series from M. Gessen: The Idiot . “Compassion has its limits when it comes to your own cousin.”
A mind-bending trip into the cosmos aboard a speculative (yet theoretically possible) spacecraft near the speed of light - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
John Yau takes on the art world giant, the man behind an archive of censored mass media, Wifredo Lam in New York, and more Epstein art world ties.
How did law firms and other professional workplaces become places of such crushing and soulless work? - by Dylan Gottlieb Read on Aeon
OpenAI's Sora allowed you to deepfake yourself. Users started to remember things that never happened.
The door-to-door salesperson had no leverage. If he was at your door, he wasn’t at anyone else’s door. Every minute you spent with him was a minute he had to spend with you. While it was a tough gig, no one doubted that something was motivating this person enough to put at
No art enthusiast’s visit to the United Kingdom would be complete without days at the British Museum, the Tate, the V&A and the National Gallery. The fact that all those respected institutions are in London constitutes a plausible excuse never to stray outside the capital. But
More than a century after women’s suffrage in the United States, it’s not enough to bone up on the platforms of female primary candidates (though that’s an excellent start). A Twitter user and self-described Old Crone named Robyn urged her fellow Americans to take a good long