Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we’re sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Robert Plant, and Bob Dylan have never hesitated to acknowledge his
This is a map published in 1927 by Paramount Studios showing the areas of California & Nevada that doubled as shooting locations for far-flung locales, including Siberia, Wales, the Nile, New England, the Red Sea, and the Alps. Tags: Hollywood · maps · movies
The survey, which happens every five years, rejects the out-of-towner’s glossy surfaces in favor of the view from inside.
Also, the Denver Art Museum's new associate curator of Native Arts, the Toronto Biennial of Art, and Marilyn Minter chats with Monica Lewinsky.
The latest segment of her performance series “Crossing the Water” chronicles life under military occupation after the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
In a book on Qing-era trade portraitists whose names are lost to history, Winnie Wong shows us how our restless pursuits of authenticity guide us into pitfalls of our own making.
The organization abruptly terminated its longstanding partnership with the Henry Street Settlement social services organization last year.
Some visitors may feel unmoored by the museum’s open plan and free-floating associations, but others will welcome the unconventional approach.
This week: Tania Bruguera’s museum manifesto in stained glass, Molly Crabapple on AI’s art heist, Rachel Corrie’s mother speaks out, remembering Ashaji, right-wing knitters, and more.
Kosaka painstakingly replicates vintage radios, game consoles, cameras, and more using just one material. 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 Marvel at
Researchers have found that some aspects of sperm whales’ communication are “remarkably similar” to human languages .
What Was the Very First Plant in the World? “Scientists believe the first true plants evolved from green algae around 470 million years ago.”
"Historians and nonfiction authors often glide over lived experience. They prefer actions, citations, details, dates. But I had just gone through something primal—something beyond my control and beyond the boundaries of modern life."
This is so cool: in the early 1900s, a mechanical engineer named Louis Brennan invented a self-balancing train that ran on a single track . This video demonstrates how the train worked using a clever system of gyroscopes. This is the Brennan Monorail, a train from the early
The first comprehensive catalogue of artworks by acclaimed modernist painter Marsden Hartley is now freely available on the internet.
"Limited information and a lack of informed health care providers make this life transition even more difficult for incarcerated people."
Curated by Helen Adams, the group exhibition at Saatchi Gallery celebrates a wide range of contemporary practices. 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
I mentioned this book in a previous post but it deserves its own thing: Timothy Ryback’s 53 Days: How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy will hit shelves in September. A must-read for me.
"The ultra-rich are fortifying themselves inside one of America’s last intact ecosystems—with money plundered from ecological sacrifice zones around the world."
As part of his Real Time series, artist Maarten Baas has created The People’s Clock , a timepiece that lives in Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport. To create the clock’s “workings”, Baas recorded more than 1000 volunteers moving as the clock’s hands over a 12-hour period. If you
The Great American GLP-1 Experiment . In the last few years, people have come up with all sorts of off-label uses for GLP-1s, including treating concussions, menopause, long Covid, IBS, drug addiction, anxiety, hair loss, and arthritis.
"The gold that once drew opportunists to this slice of California now attracts a new generation."
The evolution of Paris across millennia – from Celtic fishing village to world capital – in three animated minutes - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
The artist and NYC first lady sits for an exclusive interview with our editor-in-chief. Plus: Who’s behind the posters calling to boycott the Met Gala?
Peering into the origins of our Universe, astronomers found something that shouldn’t be there: what are those little red dots? - by Jenny Greene Read on Aeon
That’s the appeal of it, of course. There isn’t a definitive study. There can’t be. Even if we created a forty-year-long, double-blind twin study, there’d be room for someone to ask “what about?…” It doesn’t matter that the peer-reviewed and consistent results we have are clear
We’ve lived but a few years so far into the age when artificial intelligence can produce convincing stories, songs, essays, poems, novels, and even films. For many of us, these recently implemented functions have already come to feel necessary in our daily life, but it may