Seems like it’s a good time for an open thread. I cannot remember what number we’re up to, so it’s “Potato”. I just had french fries for lunch and ate the longest french fry I have ever seen. 1 I should have taken a photo, but I was in consumption mode and not attention mode.
Doubt, idiocracy, baseball, meals, and fish. Find out why these five stories stood out.
French museums and galleries are shuttering before nationwide protests tomorrow. Plus: What does it mean for a woman artist to “reach her prime”?
It often seems that everyone is talking about what everyone is talking about. No one cares about a song or a movie or a political issue–and then they do. Then it’s everywhere. But of course, that’s precisely why. Most people feel safe when they’re engaging within the expected
Scholars disagree on when, exactly, Rome fell. But if you watch the new video from City 3D Timelapse above, you’ll understand the lack of debate on the question of whether it fell. Around the turn of the sixth century AD, buildings start vanishing at a rate that soon turns
We place life’s bets by countless calculations of probability, conscious and unconscious, only to discover over and over how short they fall of the wildest reaches of the possible, which always includes but exceeds the probable. It helps to remember that we ourselves are
Plus, this year's Prix Duchamp winners, a trove of Kiki Smith prints heads to NYPL, and more.
“an interesting linguistics find! so I’m reading this text from 1908 and it keeps referencing ‘hp’ in the context of ‘not being at full hp’ ‘applying your full hp to a task’ etc.” But it’s not hit/health points…
"The Prime of Your Life" examines what recognition and market success mean for 18 women artists over 75.
The Fondation Cartier, galleries including Gagosian and Perrotin, and Art Basel Paris will remain closed all weekend.
For more than a year, marshalled by animator Andy Bailey , more than 1000 artists collaborated to create a hand-drawn, shot-for-shot, animated, flipbook version of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. The entire three hours. 120,000 individually
I just built a page containing many of my books. Click on any one of them and it’ll take you to a directory of where you can get a copy. And the page then re-indexes based on which ones get the most clicks. https://hotlist.sethgodin.com Thanks for reading.
The musician and indie darling was drawn to John Griswold's intimate tableaux evoking Renaissance and Baroque iconographies.
An archive of Omni magazine (1978-1995) , courtesy of the Internet Archive. “Omni was a science and science fiction magazine published in the US and the UK. It contained articles on science, parapsychology, and short works of science fiction and fantasy.”
We are the survivors of immense and minute events — violent cosmic collisions and subtle genetic mutations, the deaths of innumerable suns and the births of innumerable cells, the splitting of continents and the splitting of atoms. Out of it all, we emerged as creatures muzzled
"The mystery is revealed, and after a breath or two, becomes just as great a mystery as before."
Mathenge, who was born in Nairobi, looks to the not-so-distant past in a series of paintings called 'Re-membering.' 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
Railpass simulates a train ride in your browser window using real video footage. Choose from trains from around the world or add some weather to the mix. Sound on for the best ride.
Works by Simone Fattal, Manfred Pernice, and Niki de Saint Phalle are among those that will be removed early from Winston Churchill Avenue ahead of the fair’s early closure.
Works by Simone Fattal, Manfred Pernice, and Niki de Saint Phalle are among those that will be removed early from Winston Churchill Avenue ahead of the fair’s early closure.
This year marks the centennial of one of the most audacious projects in the history of American higher education.
This Is What It’s Like to Spend Your Life in Prison . “None of us want to be defined solely by the person we were in our youth, or by the worst thing we ever did. The men serving life without parole feel the same way.”
The winners of the 2026 Epson International Pano awards were announced recently, featuring some of the best panoramic photography in the world. Alan Taylor at the Atlantic shared some of his favorites and I shared some of mine above. Starting at the top, photos by Xuecheng Liu,
After twenty years of making immaterial things with my mind — ideas sculpted of words, questions woven of sentences, translucent vessels for thought and feeling in the shape of poems — I found myself overcome by the urge to make things with my hands out of matter: clay, thread,
One bleak English winter a long time ago, wandering through London in the wake of a relationship that had just unraveled, I walked into an antiquarian bookstore and chanced upon a rare century-old edition of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales — which I had grown up with —
“Scientists have made a breakthrough toward the mind-bending goal of creating computers made of brains by demonstrating that human neural tissue can classify letters of the Braille alphabet .”
"Teams make handshake deals with players as young as 11 while moneylenders prey on their families. The industry is corrupt, but Major League Baseball and the players union have done little about it."
Upcoming deadline for MFA program applications at University at Buffalo
The title of this video is The Fastest Downhill Run Ever . I don’t know if that is true, but oh my god does it look dangerous to go this fast on a mountain bike through the streets of Genoa. (It looks slightly less nuts in the non-POV , but not by much.)
Amid ongoing nationwide demonstrations for better living conditions in France, the fair said it will shutter over the weekend “in the interest of safeguarding our visitors.”
The artist's solo exhibition at Yossi Milo delves into traditional craft with a contemporary twist. 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 Ibrahim Said