The Art Institute of Chicago Cuts Its Entire Custodial Staff
The museum's union called the plan to outsource in-house custodial work to a third-party vendor a "devastating and unconscionable injustice."
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On the use of AI for creative work (type design in this...
On the use of AI for creative work (type design in this case). “A tool that shields us from the friction of the work is compelling, but if we don’t experience the friction, we will never change the work.”
Hell and High Water
A memorial statue of Charlie Kirk might be coming to Times Square, Trevor Winkfield’s artificial worlds, and a beer with painter Keltie Ferris.
“No CGI” Is Really Just Invisible CGI
Mission Impossible. Oppenheimer. F1. The Odyssey. Top Gun: Maverick. Mad Max: Fury Road. Inception. Dune. Filmmakers and studios who make movies like these love to emphasize their heavy use of practical effects, i.e. real cars jumping real bridges or real people hanging off of
The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring s.e. smith
The All My Dead Cats and Other Losses author and Flytrap co-founder on grief, breaking and fixing things, and Alice Wong.
The Rise of the Corporate Rave
"The once underground and countercultural 'rave' has fully spread to the mainstream in the form of themed pop-ups and sponsored parties. For newbies, it can be a sanitized gateway into electronic music. For true ravers, it’s more complicated."
The official trailer for Avengers: Doomsday . They’ve...
The official trailer for Avengers: Doomsday . They’ve gotten (some of) the band back together — perhaps this will be a return to form for Marvel?
Los Angeles Public Library Unveils the World’s Largest Pop-Up Book
"Luceros y Penumbres," designed by Daniel González and engineered by Matthew Reinhart, is an ode to learning and discovery. 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
New lecture series from authoritarianism scholar Timothy...
New lecture series from authoritarianism scholar Timothy Snyder: Hitler and Stalin Today . “The course begins with the colonial background that made totalitarianism possible, and which remains an essential element of our politics now.”
The Bone Rush
"Dinosaurs have become an asset class for billionaires. And the market is about as orderly and genteel as a starving T. rex."
Idaho Pushed Anti-Trans Laws for Years. Then a Teen Died.
"The life and death of May Pollard, 16, provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America."
Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara Is Free
The Cuban dissident artist is exiled to the US and a Homerist reviews Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey.”
The people’s atheist
Jean Meslier, a rural French priest, argued that religion is designed to produce subjects who will automatically obey - by Nidal Taibi Read on Aeon
The Having/Doing job gap
It’s a dance between workers, bosses and the market. The most stable quadrant happens when a thoughtful and consistent boss hires the right person, pays them fairly, creates positive working conditions and useful training. In return, the company gets extraordinary performance.
Hear the Haunting Sound of an Ancient Celtic War Trumpet: Silent for 2,000 Years, It Now Sounds Again
Norfolk is known for its network of rivers and lakes, its stock of medieval churches, and for being the home county of Alan Partridge. Last year, it quite literally unearthed another mark of distinction in the form of an iron age war trumpet. “The bronze trumpet or carnyx is
Getting Dressed During World War I: A Fascinating Look at How Soldiers, Nursers & Others Dressed During the Great War
Not to diminish the nightmare of mortars and shrapnel, but as evidenced by Crow’s Eye Productions’ period-accurate dressing video above, one of the greatest horrors of WWI was wet wool. Decades before the invention of Gore-Tex, Polar Fleece, and other high-performance,
The Lost Joy of Music Piracy . “Still to this day,...
The Lost Joy of Music Piracy . “Still to this day, I’ve never seen such an actively maintained network of knowledge and output, it really sucked me in.”
Epictetus on Love and Loss: The Stoic Strategy for Surviving Heartbreak
"Who is good if he knows not who he is? and who knows what he is, if he forgets that things which have been made are perishable, and that it is not possible for one human being to be with another always?"
A Homerist’s Review of “The Odyssey”
Historian Joel Christensen reacts to Christopher Nolan’s epic, artists speak candidly about AI, and a forthcoming film adaptation of the Louvre heist.
Goofy Oversized Wicker Costumes
Artist Lewis Prosser describes himself on Instagram as an “absurdist basket-maker”. His costumes for a project called Making Merrie reflect that self-description. Making Merrie explores the material culture of folk theatre. Inspired by mummers’ plays and masked traditions
Excerpt from a longer (podcast) conversation with John...
Excerpt from a longer (podcast) conversation with John Waters about how he used to work at Mary Oliver’s bookstore in Provincetown . “They had this bookshop where you were allowed to be mean to the customers. It was really fun.”
A Homerist Reacts to Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey”
“This is a tale of a man affected by trauma, but without any sense that it changed him at all.”
New Museum's Shiny New Building Leaks During Flash Floods
No artworks were harmed, but extreme weather shuttered the Lower Manhattan museum for a full weekend.
Cuban Artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara Exiled to the US
The dissident artist arrived in Miami after serving five years in a maximum-security prison outside Havana.
Filmmaker Ava DuVernay is making a documentary about the...
Filmmaker Ava DuVernay is making a documentary about the 14th amendment , “spotlighting America’s long running and sometimes bloody battle with itself over who is a citizen and how much freedom they get”.
A Beastie Boy Returns to the Mic, With Some Help
"Thanks to an assist from his sons, Mike D is set to release “Thank You,” the first new music from a member of the pioneering rap trio in 15 years."
On Japan’s visible evidence of care . “American...
On Japan’s visible evidence of care . “American service providers, private and public, increasingly run like ghost ships. Japanese technology and design seemed in greater service to humans, their journeys, and enterprises.”
Watch 1969’s Apollo 11 Moon Landing “Live!”
57 years ago today, on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon and went for a little walk. For the 18th year in a row, you can watch the original CBS News coverage of Walter Cronkite reporting on the Moon landing and the first Moon walk on a small B&W
The Sunflower Effect of Kyung-Me
The artist’s current series marks a shift in her practice, evoking the life span of a sunflower — from blooming to dying, from sharply defined forms to rivulets of dissolution.
