We spend our lives trying to find our power and our freedom. It is not easy: We live in a culture that has distorted the meaning and measure of power, confusing visibility with value, status with substance, attention with love; we live in a universe where free will may be an
From 713 Magazine on Instagram : In a world where cultural knowledge has become its own form of social currency, knowing the right designers, listening to the right music, and recognizing the right references can make someone appear just as creative as the people actually
Hyperallergic’s spirited soirée, a bone to pick with “Costume Art” at The Met, and what’s a woman artist’s “prime” in the art world?
Yuntao Xu’s art show in a gas station, LA’s first gallery run for and by Black artists, iris yirei hu’s reliquaries for a dream, and April Bey’s alien tapestries of human life.
David Mitlaski says his oil pastel painting of the Met Gala captures “A-list celebrities prancing, while the world outside the museum gates is collapsing.”
"The mountaineer and his partner, Hilaree Nelson, planned a first-ever descent. After her death, he pushed on."
“ Local Wikipedia is Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you.” There is also Walkipedia .
A show at the Getty demonstrates the way modernist approaches to photography shifted the visual culture of Mexico in the 20th century.
John Oliver on the Republican Party and the Far Right (redundant).
As the legal dispute over the paintings’ ownership continues, no one seems to be asking: What were their names? Who may still be grieving their deaths? What decision would best honor them?
The Berlin-based duo draw on their background in illustration and graphic design to create eye-popping compositions. 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
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural and intellectual movement of African-American artists in the 1920s and 30s. In 1972, filmmaker William Greaves threw a party in Duke Ellington’s apartment for some surviving members of the movement and recorded the whole thing. The footage
"The 1993 stabbing of Monica Seles and our quest for optimization."
There's no question we need to move away from fossil fuels. But who bears the cost of the green transition? 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 Tom
Apple Music’s 404 page features a fully functional iPod simulator.
"One has to shut off that nagging part of the mind and go on without it with bravo and philosophy."
Short video teasing an new collab between Daft Punk and Lego , including a forthcoming Lego set based on this fan-submitted entry .
"She was like the sun. She was this force that pulled people in and kept them orbiting around her," said her studio manager.
The artist's eponymous solo exhibition opens tomorrow at Perrotin in New York. 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 Timeless Totemic Figures by Izumi
PRRI’s 2026 American Values Survey reveals some, uh, interesting views on whether Americans think empathy is a good thing or not. Those respondents unaffiliated with a religion were much more inclined to think that empathy is “a foundational moral value that helps build a
Where critical thinking meets contemporary practice across key art world capitals.
I spoke to the poet, who is my longtime friend and colleague, about her new book, the threads connecting poetry and visual art, and how Lakota philosophy suffuses her work.
OMG, the height of these waves hitting a seawall in Taiwan as Typhoon Champi hit the island nation a few days ago. That’s gotta be close to 100 feet. Waves also inundated this 75-foot-tall lighthouse and a crane 164 feet tall , knocking it over.
Michael Pollan reflects on what has and hasn’t changed in the 20 years since he wrote The Omnivore’s Dilemma . “Looking at the landscape of food and farming today, I’m sorry to report that things haven’t changed all that much.”
Matt Webb is bunkering down , bracing for more LLM-driven security exploits. “Realistically, let’s say the internet gets infested with AI worms and we need to turn it off and on again, could we do it?” I had not heard of the air-gapped LLM communication 😳
"What happened could have happened to anyone, but not everyone could have carried on."
"The racers do their first tenuous laps behind the pace car. The subterranean rumble of their engines grows."
The Great Circle Author on Her Omnivorous Habits, E-Reader Renaissance, and Unending Search for “The One.”
The sculptor and video artist talks mass culture, and Nathan Fielder as performance artist?
Grief is not only for the dead. When we are unable to honour other profound losses, we become strangers to ourselves - by Derek van Zoonen Read on Aeon
When things don’t turn out the way you pictured, how long does it take for you to move on? Reducing this window of disappointment unlocks the path to creativity and leadership. People who get over disappointment more quickly aren’t less excited about the project than the
Even now, in this age when the very reading of literature is endangered — or so the articles tell us — Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) retains a notable ability to pick up new admirers. But even though he may have a decent readership by the standards of French novelists who died
Stephen King has that rare, and spectacularly profitable, skill to suck you into his world and compel you to flip to the next page. And when you’re hooked, his words have the uncanny ability to simply unfold like a movie in your head. So it isn’t surprising that his books have