Gladys Mae West was born in rural Virginia in 1930, grew up working on a tobacco farm, and died earlier this month a celebrated mathematician whose work made possible the GPS technology most of us use each and every day. Hers was a distinctively American life, in more ways than
Image via Wikimedia Commons In his 1935 essay, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproducibility,” influential German-Jewish critic Walter Benjamin introduced the term “aura” to describe an authentic experience of art. Aura relates to the physical proximity between
"As long as space and time divide you from anyone you love... love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time and, furthermore, to win."
"Andersen had the courage to write stories with unhappy endings. He didn’t believe that you should try to be good because it pays ... but because evil stems from intellectual and emotional stuntedness and is the one form of poverty that should be shunned."
“ Archivio Grafica Italiana is the first online archive dedicated to the entire Italian graphic design heritage.” (via sidebar ) Tags: design
“It’s chilling that this censorship plays out especially regarding Palestine, the great exception to free speech,” Goldin told Hyperallergic.
Her exhibition "Love Language" invites viewers into the vibrant cultural legacies of Native art, and connections to land, lineage, and community.
In 'Golden Days,' Dabin Ahn reflects the grief of losing his father. 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 Dabin Ahn Lingers in Loss in a Mournful Series
The guerrilla imitations of common road signage use a distinctive brand of Philly humor to alert residents of ICE threats and looming authoritarianism.
A “sprinkler emergency” at the newly reopened Harlem institution forced staff to evacuate visitors
The cancellation of the South African artist’s Venice Biennale pavilion reveals the machinations of state censorship — and the ways we can collectively resist it.
An impressive isometric map of NYC , built with AI agents . “I’m particularly interested in scaling up the grindy repetitive tasks that make many ideas practically impossible.”
"£100m stolen across Europe . . . How did Ollie Holman do it?"
Sesame Street has uploaded a bunch of classic episodes to YouTube that are free to watch , including the very first episode from 1969, the one where Mister Rogers visits, and the episode where Mr. Snuffulupagus is finally revealed. The most recent one was uploaded just a couple
The African diaspora pictures itself, James Castle dreams of transcendence, and more to get you through a freezing week in New York.
"In the depths of the Cold War, scientists from the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. joined forces to answer a still-urgent question: Can mammals reproduce in space?"
You Need A Kitchen Slide Rule . “Kitchen work is all about proportions, and nothing beats the slide rule for proportions.”
"In this 'Skyspace,' the day has weight, the evening has temperature, and the change belongs to you," Turrell says. 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
Whoa, this is a fantastic archive of tangible media objects — like gramophone records, punch cards, 8-tracks, floppy disks, etc. (via unsung )
Nature and landscapes are sources of infinite wonder for the Warsaw-based artist. 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 Woodland Creatures Waken from
Science magazine: US government has lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs since Trump took office .
The Comics Journal’s obituary for Scott Adams . “Dilbert’s tone shifted during the 2010s, punching down at targets, mocking and belittling societal shifts and perceived “political correctness,” with more cynical, even bitter humor…”
“In the future world, America, with its energy and vitality, must play a leading role,” he told Matisse.
This video from December is about a pair of teenaged ICE trackers . “Armed with phone and body cameras, Ben and Sam patrol the Chicago suburbs in hopes of tracking ICE agents and filming raids they see as unwarranted and unjustified.”
"The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia."
Collision and convergence in Truth and Beauty at the intersection of science and spirituality.
"What exists, exists so that it can be lost and become precious."
The history of our species is the history of mistaking the limits of our imagination for the limits of the possible. It is salutary, I think, for us to be reminded regularly that this world is far wilder and more alien than we suppose it to be, that flowers are not what we
A 90-minute ICE Watch training session via Zoom “on effectively protecting your neighborhoods from federal enforcement incursions”. Jan 28, 7pm ET. Sign up here .
Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong . “Activists have made the decision to emphasize protection, aid, and observation. When matters escalate, it is usually the choice of the federal agents.”
"The Trump administration is deporting people to countries they have no ties to, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled."
The only thing more dangerous than wanting to save another person — a dangerous desire too often mistaken for love — is wanting to save yourself, to spare yourself the disappointment and heartbreak and loss inseparable from being a creature with hopes and longings constantly
Artworks in homage to the 37-year-old nurse killed by federal agents, an exhibition of Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot, and remembering Marian Goodman.
The 17th-century town Cacheu was a hub of West African and European cultures, languages and beliefs (and run by women) - by Toby Green Read on Aeon