The Courage to Be Yourself: Virginia Woolf on How to Hear Your Soul
"Beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself."
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Emerson on Talent vs. Character, Our Resistance to Change, and the Key to True Personal Growth
"People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them."
How Do You Know That You Love Somebody? Philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s Incompleteness Theorem of the Heart’s Truth, from Plato to Proust
"The alternations between love and its denial, suffering and denial of suffering … constitute the most essential and ubiquitous structural feature of the human heart."
Whitney Biennial, Can You Hear Us?
Fascism is upon us, but a major US art show seems none the wiser. Also, how to make a protest sign, remembering Pat Steir, and more.
Systems and the default to yes
Joseph Brandlin is a scofflaw. After months of fighting to get the city council to put a stop sign on the corner of the dangerous intersection near his home, he simply did it himself. A first-rate, professional job that cost more than $1,000. As he was finishing the job at 1:30
Marica Vilcek, Graceful Champion of Immigrant Artists, Dies at 89
Her namesake foundation has awarded over $17 million to advance its mission, including unrestricted cash awards for researchers and artists across disciplines.
How Photography Helped Build the Atomic Bomb
A group of intergenerational artists, collectively known as Slow War Against the Nuclear State, investigates the afterlife of nuclear politics in a haunting, timely exhibition
How to Survive AI
The documentaries “Ghost in the Machine” and “The AI Doc” both end in calls to action, but arrive there in different ways.
David Morrison’s Alluring Drawings Spring from the Blank Page
In colored pencil, David Morrison captures the delicate intricacies of plants. 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 David Morrison’s Alluring Drawings
UK Museums Hold Over 260,000 Human Remains, Report Finds
A new exposé from the Guardian details extensive holdings of human remains from former British colonies, as well as potential mishandling of body parts.
Taking a Seat at Robert Therrien’s Table
The Broad invites us into the late artist’s obsessively iterative practice, where oversized tables and chairs give way to more elusive, personal forms.
