I'm a Chicana Curator. This Is Why I Removed Cesar Chavez From My Show
The decision to remove a portrait of the labor leader from “Chicano Camera Culture” at The Cheech was not one I took lightly.
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Required Reading
This week: a mysterious LA guerrilla artist, Whistler and gold paint, remembering Totó La Momposina, the art of photographing queer nightlife, AI agents turn Marxist, and more.
The Secret to Winning on Jeopardy . “To win on...
The Secret to Winning on Jeopardy . “To win on Jeopardy, you don’t need to learn everything. You just need to learn one thing about everything.” As an proficient player of Yell Answers At The TV Jeopardy in my teen years, I can confirm this strat.
A New Richard Avedon Documentary Lets Him Down
Director Ron Howard is a gun for hire, and it shows in this conventional documentary about the famed photographer.
Stonewall Monument Named Among Most Endangered Sites in the US
The Manhattan site’s inclusion on the annual preservation list comes amid Trump’s increasing efforts to control the narrative surrounding LGBTQ+ history.
Robert Lugo’s Colossal Ode to Puerto Rico Rises in Madison Square Park
Hand-painted portraits of Bad Bunny, his parents, and other inspiring figures mix with sweet memories of boyhood summers in the artist’s latest work.
Paul Brown’s iPod . This is a lovely remembrance &...
Paul Brown’s iPod . This is a lovely remembrance & time capsule: a playable iPod emulator of “the music on the iPod my dad had in 2018 before he died”. Click wheel works and everything.
What Number Was Stephen Colbert Thinking Of?
One of the questions on The Colbert Questionert that Stephen Colbert would administer to his celebrity guests was “What number am I thinking of?” As you can see from this compilation, his answer was often, but not always, “no”. A few of the guests said “42” but none ever said
This is impressive: an AI model has disproved an...
This is impressive: an AI model has disproved an 80-year-old conjecture by Paul Erdős . “The proof came from a new general-purpose reasoning model, rather than from a system trained specifically for mathematics.”
Three Hours of Unbelievable Moments From Nature, Narrated by David Attenborough
Wow, BBC Earth has posted this three-hour-long video to YouTube of David Attenborough narrating Unbelievable Moments From Nature. I’ve had it on in the background for the last little while as I’m working and it’s great. Tags: David Attenborough · video
“US is ‘simply choosing not to stop’ Ebola...
“US is ‘simply choosing not to stop’ Ebola outbreak after massive public health cuts.” Just so fucking stupid and maddening and wasteful and dangerous and callous and evil.
Trump Destroyed USAID. Now People Are Dying....
Trump Destroyed USAID. Now People Are Dying. “Everyone, especially in South Sudan, wanted to know if the US really had cut off aid. It was easier for them to believe that the aid organizations were lying to them than to think that the US would do this.”
Free admission to Canadian national parks this summer!...
Free admission to Canadian national parks this summer! “From June 19 to September 7, no fees apply for: admission for all visitors to all national historic sites, national parks, and national marine conservation areas operated by Parks Canada.”
Art-Science Undisciplined: A Playbook for Transformative Collaboration
Artist Janani Balasubramanian and astrophysicist Natalie Gosnell reimagine collaboration through a values-based and joyfully undisciplined practice.
Around North America, Community Members Are Stitching Nearly 11,000 Birds
Chicago-based artist and educator Holly Greenberg facilitates dozens of workshops to sew fabric birds and raise awareness of bird collisions. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as
At Long Last, I Have Maxximized My Looks ....
At Long Last, I Have Maxximized My Looks . “Apparently, eating a fistful of iguana tranquilizers for breakfast every morning has turned me cold-blooded, and I am no longer appropriately adapted for life on the Earth’s surface.”
Aloha ʻāina
It’s marketed as a holiday destination, but the true meaning of Hawai’i lies in the connections between land and people - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Billie Holiday Comes to Queens
Thomas J Price and Tavares Strachan are frontrunners for a new commission to honor the jazz legend.
Make immigration boring
The fiercest political battle of our age needs less moral drama and more hard thinking about numbers and fair tradeoffs - by Alan Manning Read on Aeon
Value creation, bullshit jobs and the future of work
We create a job whenever someone with the authority to hire decides the value created is greater than the wages paid. In my lifetime, we’ve invented 7 billion or more jobs, which is great news. Great for the people who were able to earn a living, and productive for everyone who
The Spread of Christianity Animated, from Antiquity Until Today, on an Animated Map
Christianity has long been closely identified with Western civilization. The association is especially strong, in modern times, with the United States of America, that source of derisively quoted, quite possibly apocryphal arguments that “if English was good enough for Jesus
Watch Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page Rock the Theremin, the Early Soviet Electronic Instrument
It can be frustrating for Led Zeppelin fans to hear the band reduced to plagiarism lawsuits or the quintessence of sexually-aggressive rock-star entitlement (though much of that is deserved). For one thing, Zeppelin’s occult songwriting tendencies, courtesy of both Page and
Truth, Fact, and the Patterning of Reality: Virginia Woolf on How We Come to Know the World
The great myth is that truth is an emergent property of fact, that it bubbles up from the bottom of reality once the mind attains enough fathoms of factuality. But objective reality — all those things like gravity and light and the fossil of the Archaeopteryx that exist whether
The Divine Powers of “Chicken Linda”
Pioneering performance artist Linda Mary Montano gave me a tour of her home-shrine and a glimpse into her lifelong spiritual quest through art.
What If Lock-In Doesn’t Matter So Much Anymore?
Interesting observation by Mitchell Hashimoto (creator of Vagrant and Ghostty ) on how a company’s or product’s choice of programming language matters less in the age of agentic programming: On the interesting side is how fungible programming languages are nowadays.
Guggenheim to Screen Artistic Portrait of Soccer Legend Zinédine Zidane
Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno's masterpiece about the French player will go on view at the museum this summer, timed with a bitter World Cup.
As Democracy Falters, a New York Museum Champions Activism
The Museum of the City of New York will open its expanded center for social activism alongside a slate of exhibitions, public programs, and screenings.
All the Star Wars Lightsaber Designs
This scan isn’t very good (best I could find), but these are all the lightsabers used by Jedi and Sith in the various Star Wars shows and movies. I think this is from a few years ago, so I’m not sure how up to date it is. In the SW universe, making your own saber is a Jedi and