Image by National Portrait Gallery, via Wikimedia Commons Advice on how to grow old frequently comes from such banal or bloodless sources that we can be forgiven for ignoring it. Public health officials who dispense wisdom may have good intentions; pharmaceutical companies who
Your Guide to Art Excursions Outside NYC This Spring Dek1: The avant-garde environments of Piero Manzoni, the abstract visions of Agnes Martin, Rina Banerjee’s diaphanous monuments, and so much else to see.
The avant-garde environments of Piero Manzoni, the abstract visions of Agnes Martin, Rina Banerjee’s diaphanous monuments, and so much else to see.
The museum offers scans of items including a painting by Claude Monet, Neolithic sculptures, and Greek terracotta vases
From late January, a 40-minute talk by Rick Steves on “how lessons learned on the road can help Americans better understand and meet the challenges facing Democracy in the USA.”
Narsiso Martinez continues working on cardboard produce boxes, celebrating the people responsible for feeding America. 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
Previously misattributed to a pupil of the Dutch Master, the painting was hidden from public view in a private collection for over six decades.
This week, we honor an arts patron, a video artist, and a San Francisco gallerist.
The son of legendary painters, Ryman has developed his own visual language, transforming aspects of his parents’ work, and Minimalism, into something recognizably his.
A new study finds that artists experience negative emotions the morning after their most productive days.
Timothy Snyder on strongmen . “Once you accept that Trump is strong, you are accepting that you are weaker than Trump. And once you accept the strongman form of politics, you no longer have recourse to laws, or norms, or even basic ideas of decency.”
Ok, you know this is going to be a good one: De La Soul plays a Tiny Desk Concert. The humor of De La Soul has always been one of its calling cards. When DJ Maseo tells the Tiny Desk crowd, “Ladies and gentlemen, we’re a new group called De La Soul,” he means it as a joke.
A new book by Rebecca Solnit came out yesterday; it’s called The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change ( Amazon ). The synopsis: Rebecca Solnit offers a thrilling account of the sheer breadth and scale of social, political, scientific, and cultural change
Suppose we answer the most important question of existence in the affirmative. There is then only one question remaining: How shall we live this life? Despite all the technologies of thought and feeling we have invented to divine an answer — philosophy and poetry, scripture and
TIL about babysitting co-ops . “The premise is simple: Families in the co-op provide each other with free childcare. A point system…ensures that everyone contributes their fair share. Every half an hour is worth one point…”
The bigger the tusks, the more vulnerable these gentle giants are to poachers who harvest and traffic the ivory for trade. 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
Hello, good afternoon! As I mentioned a few weeks ago , I have a bunch of new stuff for KDO in the pipeline. I’ve been focused on backend infrastructure recently to make my life (hopefully) easier and have gotten that to a place of “useful enough to test out to find all the
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Acquires Original Disney Adult . “There wouldn’t be a Disney as we know it without this guy, a grown man who has watched Tinker Bell And The Great Fairy Rescue more than 90 times.”
TIL about burping your house , aka lüften (in Germany), aka opening up the windows in your house daily to air it out, even in winter.
After being removed from the official list of Rembrandt works in 1960, a private collector purchased "Vision of Zachariah in the Temple," from which point on, it remained out of sight—until now. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and
The Library of Congress houses an online collection of 48 color photographs of Rome taken in the 1890s . The prints were created using the photochrom process : The prints look deceptively like color photographs. But when viewed with a magnifying glass the small dots that
Steve Jobs famously said that computers are a bicycle for the mind. What does that make LLMs? An e-bike for the mind? A car for the mind? A jet plane for the mind?
When AI first began colonizing language — which is still our best instrument for bridging the abyss between us, a container for thought and feeling that shapes the contents — I asked chatGPT to compose a poem about a solar eclipse in the style of Walt Whitman. It returned a
Play with the physics of perception at Frank Oppenheimer’s Exploratorium in this captivating, Oscar-nominated short from 1974 - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Impressions from the leading survey of American art, Chicago's DePaul Art Museum shutters, arts leaders react to Mamdani's pick for culture commissioner, and more.
It used to be an obscure oddity, now we all need to understand it. 18 years ago, I posted this image: …and I still can’t get it out of my head. Sorry. Why do we have such a creeped-out reaction to images that aren’t quite right? A robot that looks too much like a person, […]
Metropolis, Forbidden Planet, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars, Blade Runner, The Terminator, Short Circuit, RoboCop, Ghost in the Shell, The Iron Giant, WALL‑E, Ex Machina: there is a parallel history of cinema to be told entirely through its robots. That such a history must
The author of The Beginning Comes After the End talks about jackrabbits, her own “informational hypervigilance,” and the one word she won’t stop using.