Gabriella Marcella founded Risotto in 2012 after purchasing her first risograph machine secondhand. 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 This Risograph
From a livestream recorded many years ago, this is Radiohead covering Joy Division’s Ceremony . The song was originally written by Joy Division but the version most people know is New Order’s — it was their first single. From Wikipedia : “Ceremony” was one of the last Joy
Oh wow, this is a trippy game inspired by MC Escher . My brain may be permanently broken by this.
A short analysis of what makes Mark Antony’s “Friends, Romans, countrymen…” speech from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar so good and effective.
Transparent houses, suspended structures, and intimate paintings serve as metaphors for belonging in this exhibition at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston.
Using wiki software, old photos, family stories, bank transactions, social media posts, and an LLM to sift through everything to build a personal encyclopedia .
"E-bikes and e-scooters are remaking the rules of the road. Canada’s cities aren’t ready."
“Stalin’s task in building what Senior calls his ‘Red Empire’ was made so much easier, and so much more brutal, by the intelligence the Cambridge spies passed to Moscow .”
Charcuterie is a visual Unicode symbol explorer. Click around, search, or use the pencil in the upper left to draw the shape you’re looking for. This is very cool.
"Earth / Tree" harnesses komorebi, which reflects the unique interplay of light and shadow that occurs when the sun filters through the trees. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little
"Sixty-five years ago, my grandfather masterminded a robbery at a historic Los Angeles estate."
This is wonderful: a Redditor uploaded some of their grandmother’s comics that she made in the 1940s , documenting her marriage to the deployment of her husband for World War II. I never got to meet my grandma, she passed away young in 1977 but finding her 1940s sketches felt
Well, this blows: FSG has shuttered their MCD imprint & Sean McDonald is leaving the company . MCD published so many good titles/authors : Questlove, Enshittification, Robin Sloan, Jeff VanderMeer, Sloane Crosley, Dilla Time, Tamara Shopsin…
"Steakhouse royalty, feminist icon, fungible tourism graphic—she deserves a proper title."
Plus, David Novros’s portable muralism, why more cities should offer free art supplies, and an Appalachian collective’s response to a Queens Museum show.
In this edition: a father’s grief; a commuter’s concern; a decision’s consequences; a teen’s hobby; and a sports fan’s hidden haven.
The art expert is the fulcrum of all value and significance in the museum and auction world. Could AI supplant them? - by Noah Charney Read on Aeon
If you’re hoping for this meeting or this performance or this engagement to produce something extraordinary, why are you setting it up as if it’s ordinary? The hard work of a brainstorming session, a pitch collaboration or a negotiation happens long before most people begin. We
We all learn in school, or at least from our more rigorous choices of science fiction, that we’ll never be able to travel faster than the speed of light. At first, this may sound disappointing, but upon reflection, 186,000 miles per second is nothing to sneeze at. Questions
This tiny e-ink reader is small enough to attach to the back of your phone.
"At the end of my life, I know I won’t be wishing I’d held more back, been less effusive, more often stood on ceremony, forgiven less, spent more days oblivious to the secret wishes and fears of the people around me."
I’m charmed by this fragment of Artemisia Gentileschi’s painting of Mary Magdalene that’s up for auction later this month . For many years it was in a private collection in Germany where it lay rolled up in a cellar. The head of the saint had been cut out of the canvas, under
Between the Impossible and the Inevitable: The Case for Defiance (aka Never F**king Surrender) . “We make the future in the present, when we show up. Don’t surrender it to those who would destroy it.”
Oluremi C. Onabanjo’s new role, grants for Queens artists and orgs, the “pinkest pink” turns 10, and more art industry news.
Hostile Volume is a simple and maddening game where you need to hold the audio volume at 25%, which gets increasingly difficult with each level.
After 12 years at the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum, Chiu will be joining the New York institution this coming September.
Materials for the Arts offers free tools for teachers and artists in New York, but what if more cities funded programs like ours?
International Chess Federation Adds Race Car Piece . “The race car piece gets to go twice in one turn because it’s so fast.” Smart to capitalize on F1’s popularity; they should do my fave Monopoly piece next (the iron).
Fia Backström's Queens Museum exhibition replaces beauty and complexity with a visual and narrative language that reduces the region to a site of suffering.
It is her home, her landscape, her family and friends, portrayed in these images that feel miles away from her contemporaries’ modernist abstraction.
"Wind carries away destinies," reads a brief synopsis for the short film. 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 A Strong Gust of Wind Disrupts the
Instead of being an object against the wall, Novros made his intricate, multi-paneled paintings with it in mind.
