“For a month, I tried: swapping my iPhone for a Nokia which I can only use to text, call and play Snake; also, a Walkman and a film camera. I picked up physical copies of books, newspapers…” What Emma Russell learned from her digital detox .
An exhibition sets out to rescue Morisot from the assumption that she was under Manet’s influence, but it's far from academic or revisionist.
There's something ineffably satisfying about a room in miniature. 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 In ‘Reading the Rooms,’ Gretchen Scherer ‘Opens
“The imperial boomerang is the theory that governments that develop repressive techniques to control colonial territories will eventually deploy those same techniques domestically against their own citizens.”
M. Gessen: “It’s only natural that our brains struggle to find logic in what we are seeing. There is a logic, and this logic has a name. It’s called state terror. ”
Thomas Zimmer on the stakes of Minnesota’s struggle against tyranny . “A society that has any aspiration to be free and democratic cannot — it must not! — tolerate the existence of an agency like ICE.”
ICE/DHS has killed nine people in 2026 (that we know of) : Keith Porter, Parady La, Heber Sanchaz Domínguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, and Geraldo Lunas Campos, Alex Pretti, and Renee Good.
Emily Witt reports on The Battle for Minneapolis for the New Yorker. “Federal agents attempting to stop U.S. citizens from monitoring them have broken observers’ car windows, doused them with pepper spray, and shoved protesters to the ground.”
For India’s travelling stunt drivers, who risk their lives for a living, freedom lies on the other side of fear - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Also: Sprinkler debacle at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Ellen Harvey’s lost places, and a galaxy of armor.
Physicists believe a third class of particles – anyons – could exist, but only in 2D. What kind of existence is that? - by Elay Shech Read on Aeon
"Despite what dictionaries would have us believe, this world is still mostly undefined."
Most of us are terrible at some things. Lack of skill, focus, practice, care or just temperament means that we don’t do the task as well as we might. This might be anything from promptness to conflict to high-stakes negotiation. It could include filling in forms, taking notes
Image by Ahdi Agus Oktaviana Over the centuries, a variety of places have laid credible claim to being the world’s art center: Constantinople, Florence, Paris, New York. But on the scale of, say, ten millennia, the hot spots become rather less recognizable. Up until about
"The oboe has 500 parts. Turning a profit is a killer. But Jim Phelan is bent on reviving one of the great names in classical music."
Image by Bernd Schwabe, via Wikimedia Commons At least when I was in grade school, we learned the very basics of how the Third Reich came to power in the early 1930s. Paramilitary gangs terrorizing the opposition, the incompetence and opportunism of German conservatives, the