Talking Art With Rama Duwaji
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?
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The definitive study of seed oil and health
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
How George Orwell Predicted the Rise of “AI Slop” in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
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
Watch La Linea, the Popular 1970s Italian Animations Drawn with a Single Line
Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations. Thus spake designer Paul Rand, a man who knew something about making an impression, having created iconic logos for such immediately recognizable brands as ABC, IBM, and UPS. An example of
A rare event to capture on video: an underwater volcanic...
A rare event to capture on video: an underwater volcanic eruption in the Solomon Islands .
From a few weeks ago: Bush’s Tiny Desk Concert ....
From a few weeks ago: Bush’s Tiny Desk Concert . Machinehead and Glycerine still hit.
Who Is Black Comedy For?
“A new book is nostalgic for the ’90s. But the era of crossover success was not necessarily the pinnacle of Black comedic achievement.”
Your Backpack Got Worse On Purpose . “From a...
Your Backpack Got Worse On Purpose . “From a shareholder’s perspective, the bag that falls apart is the better product. That’s the business model. Repeat failure, repeat purchase, repeat revenue. The quality decline isn’t a side effect. It’s the strategy.”
Two Japanese aquariums have released their 2026...
Two Japanese aquariums have released their 2026 flowcharts of their penguins’ relationships . “Penguin drama can include serious crushes and heartbreaks but also adultery and egg-stealing.”
Could the Girls of Camp Mystic Have Been Saved?
"Dozens died in a Texas flood, dividing families over whether it was an act of God or adult failure."
Vintage Pan-Am Luggage Tags
I love these oversized prints of vintage Pan-Am luggage tags from artist Ella Freire. The typography and colors are just perfect. (via daringfireball ) Tags: art · design · Ella Freire · travel
NEVERCREW Explores Our Tenuous Relationship with Nature in Huge Murals
Artists Christian Rebecchi and Pablo Togni have a knack for bringing the immensity of nature to developed urban spaces. 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
Don’t Just Replace Chavez — Rethink Monuments ....
Don’t Just Replace Chavez — Rethink Monuments . “A memorial based on the great-man theory of history is a tale only half told.” And: “There are elegant ways to pay tribute to groups of people.”
The Testaments TV Series
I’d vaguely remembered that Hulu was adapting The Testaments , Margaret Atwood’s follow-up to The Handmaid’s Tale , as a sequel to the TV series of the same name, but I was surprised to find out that the show has premiered and is already three episodes in (a fourth will be
Curiosity Is No Solo Act
"It gains its real power when embedded in webs of relationship and shared meaning-making."
Listen to the NYC Subway play some Train Jazz ....
Listen to the NYC Subway play some Train Jazz . “Every dot is a real subway train. Eight hundred of them, give or take, form a small jazz combo (walking bass, piano, sax, vibes, brushes) that has been playing without pause for over a hundred years.”
10,000 Chicago Concert Recordings Are Being Uploaded to the Internet Archive: Nirvana, Phish, Sonic Youth, They Might Be Giants & More
Perhaps you’ve had the experience of moving to a new city and immediately being told that you’ve missed its golden age of live music. To an extent, this has happened in more or less every period of the past fifty or sixty years. But what if the person regaling you with those
The Engineer Guy Bill Hammack has written a book based on...
The Engineer Guy Bill Hammack has written a book based on his great YouTube channel: The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans .
In the Studio With Rama Duwaji
Surrounded by her drawings and ceramics, we discussed her evolving art practice and new life as NYC first lady.
Masha Foya’s Airy Illustrations Embrace the Universality of Emotions
The Kyiv-based artist's dreamlike illustrations portray spaces and individuals that embody feeling. 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 Masha Foya’s
The Bennett Prize Opens Fifth Call for Entries
Women figurative realist painters can enter to win $75,000 and a traveling solo exhibition. Applications are open through September 19.
It’s Happening: More Signs of Life From Boards of Canada
I reported last week that signs of activity have been detected from Boards of Canada in the form of mysterious VHS tapes sent out to fans. Yesterday, the group’s record label posted a bunch of photos of posters hung up in cities around the world (NYC, Tokyo, LA) that match
“Boycott the Bezos Met Gala” Posters Emerge Across NYC
The signs protest the sponsors of this year’s event, Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchéz, and target Amazon's alleged worker exploitation and links to ICE.
Inside a Black Panther Family Album
Kathleen and Eldridge Cleaver’s family album depicts aspirational homemaking in diaspora, capturing the tension between rest and motion as they navigated exile with their children.
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Launches Digital Catalogue Raisonné
Anyone can now browse through over 2,000 works by the artist, including paintings, handwritten letters, and early sketches.
‘They’re Gonna Make Me Cry’: I Competed at a Speed Puzzling Championship
"You might think of puzzling as leisurely, but it’s now a sport. I entered a national competition and discovered a passionate community."