Today, Minnesotans are striking (“no work, no school, no shopping”), protesting, and marching in response to the ICE invasion. “We are a northern state, and we are built for the cold, and we are going to show up…”
Minnesota art orgs take a stand against ICE, Senate rescues arts funding, and what exactly is the "2016 trend"?
As AI’s endless clichés continue to encroach on human art, the true uniqueness of our creativity is becoming ever clearer - by Richard Beard Read on Aeon
Who is Nicole Bennet and why does she keep calling me? A few times a day, a voice pretending to be someone named Nicole rings my cell, and in a petulant, entitled voice, insists she’s calling me about a loan that I never applied for. I’ve never interacted, I block each number,
The Renaissance did not, strictly speaking, occur in China. Yet it seems that the Middle Kingdom did have its Renaissance men, so to speak, and in much earlier times at that. We find one such illustrious figure in the Han dynasty of the first and second centuries: a statesman
In this edition: gambling’s grip, a story of plumes and poachers, bemoaning American tourists in Rome, a magical history tour, and a fake poultry flinger.
"The mind narrates what the nervous system knows. Story follows state."
"It is, after all, not necessary to fly right into the middle of the sun, but it is necessary to crawl to a clean little spot on earth where the sun sometimes shines and one can warm oneself a little."
The Senate confirmed appropriations for the college and several other embattled cultural institutions following Trump's threats to defund them.
Plus, Amy Sherald signs with the Creative Artists Agency and the Whitney Museum’s head-scratching “cosmic look” at its 2026 Biennial artists.
“What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?” asked the Proust Questionnaire. “Living in fear,” answered David Bowie. The most menacing word of the three is the smallest, for fear really is something we live inside, not with — a cage, a tomb, a small dark room that comes
David Ehrlich is back with my favorite end-of-year celebration of film; here’s his look back at the best films of 2025 ( YouTube ). See the full list at Letterboxd . I’ve only seen five of these so it’s difficult to comment on the list as a whole, but I feel like Sinners should
Rose B. Simpson at SFMOMA, historical writers with day jobs, anti-surveillance clothing, the nostalgia of 2016, a day in the life of an art conservator, and more.
The late artist’s playful “functional sculptures” nod to second-wave feminism, but make a broader statement about resistance through collaboration.
Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95 . “Her painstaking calculations and programming helped transform raw satellite data into precise geodetic models, enabling reliable satellite-based navigation.”
Violence has a way of turning familiar places into guarded ground. And yet, I ask not what has been taken, but what we will continue to build from what remains.
“I use palo santo in my space before working to honor my ancestors.”
Learn about this opportunity to develop a cultural education center at the historic East Harlem site during informational sessions in January and February.
Mestra is a forthcoming short story from Madeline Miller ( Circe , The Song of Achilles ); it’s “a powerful reimagining of Ovid’s Pygmalion”. Miller is also working on a novel about Persephone .
The Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Art are among the hundreds of businesses shuttering on January 23 in protest of the ICE killing of Renee Macklin Good.
The Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Art are among the hundreds of businesses shuttering on January 23 in protest of the ICE killing of Renee Macklin Good.
"A noted Texas historian and his adult child get behind the wheel to see if they can finally view their home state the same way."
This week, the Earth was hit with one of the strongest geomagnetic storms in recent years, which made for some gobsmacking displays of the northern lights, even as far south as California. Cruising in a 787 at 37,000 feet on his route from Calgary to London (UK), airline pilot
The Bolivian artist's work is imbued with a sense of nostalgia—a longing for connections to "the mystical, the epic, and the sacred," he says. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little
From director Rian Johnson, a collection of some of the screenplays of his movies & TV shows , including Wake Up Dead Man, Knives Out, Glass Onion, Looper, and the Poker Face pilot. “Print them, share them, act them out with your friends.”
Now That I Am Old Enough to Enroll in Medicare, I Am Against Socialized Medicine . “Don’t you know that it makes my benefits less special when everyone can receive them?”
The new book, forthcoming from Phaidon, surveys felines in art throughout the millennia. 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 ‘Cat’ Is a Purr-fect