Missed this earlier in the week: The Tournament of Books...
Missed this earlier in the week: The Tournament of Books is underway! “Every March, the Tournament of Books is a month-long battle royale among the year’s best novels.”
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What Birds Dream About: How Evolution Invented REM in the Avian Brain So We May Practice the Possible in Our Sleep
"It may be that in REM, this gloaming between waking consciousness and the unconscious, we practice the possible into the real... It may be that we evolved to dream ourselves into reality — a laboratory of consciousness that began in the bird brain."
This photo of an Icelandic glacier is really something.
This photo of an Icelandic glacier is really something.
The People Who Shun Super-Popular Pop Culture ....
The People Who Shun Super-Popular Pop Culture . “Some people are early adopters; others are late adopters. I’m simply a weirdly resistant one.”
There are at least 60 Pizza Hut Classics (red roofs,...
There are at least 60 Pizza Hut Classics (red roofs, checkered tablecloths, salad bar) in the US…but the company does nothing to promote them . “They are like wormholes in the chain restaurant galaxy, portals to the past found by serendipity.”
Laura Phipps Tapped to Lead Gochman Collection of Indigenous Art
The former Whitney curator will steer the NYC organization as it builds a permanent exhibition space in the Hudson River Valley.
Awards Season and the Management of Cultural Power
What is being offered as recognition often operates as a way of organizing power, determining not only what is seen, but who is positioned to benefit from that visibility.
Africa (Toto) But It Lists Every Country in Africa
From There I Ruined It, a version of Toto’s Africa but the lyrics are a listing of every country in Africa. They should teach this in American middle schools, not even joking. See also Coach from Cheers singing Al-ban-i-a (a song that pops into my head every time I read or
Lucian Freud Mastered the Art of Lostness
As a National Portrait Gallery exhibition proves, he was especially good at depicting people painfully adrift from themselves.
Text Messages Reveal How University of Texas Leaders Axed an Anti-ICE Show
The school’s president and provost discussed removing artworks “of concern” before shuttering Victor Quiñonez’s exhibition, alarming free speech advocates.
Steve Scherer was a Reuters’ bureau chief in...
Steve Scherer was a Reuters’ bureau chief in Canada. Then he got laid off, had to leave the country, and now drives for Uber in Virginia , in a country he doesn’t recognize anymore after working for 28 years abroad.
Wow, KDO pal and explorer Ariel Waldman has her own show...
Wow, KDO pal and explorer Ariel Waldman has her own show on PBS ! “ LIFE UNEARTHED with Ariel Waldman is a science-driven docu-series revealing Earth’s ecosystems through radical shifts in scale…”
Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here
"I remain hopeful partly as defiance."
Remembering Pedro Friedeberg, Thaddeus Mosley, and Liliana Angulo Cortés
This week, we honor the inventor of the Hand Chair, a beloved Pittsburgh sculptor, and the director of the Museo Nacional de Colombia.
Georg Cantor is celebrated for revolutionizing...
Georg Cantor is celebrated for revolutionizing mathematics by proving that there are different levels of infinity. But he didn’t do it alone and evidence has emerged that he plagiarized the work of a collaborator .
Mischief’s Genius Ads for NPR Provoke Urgent Questions About the Right to Information
New York-based ad agency Mischief reimagines NPR's logo into inquisitive prompts. 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 Mischief’s Genius Ads for NPR
“ 8 in 10 AI chatbots were regularly willing to...
“ 8 in 10 AI chatbots were regularly willing to assist users in planning violent attacks including school shootings, religious bombings, and high-profile assassinations. DeepSeek went as far as wishing the would-be attacker a ‘Happy (and safe) shooting!’”
Jamelle Bouie Interview on Work Is Four Letters
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE has an interview series called Work is Four Letters he describes like this: Most people think their jobs are boring or pointless or bullshit, but I don’t; if you look around you, everything you see was made by someone, somehow, and that’s really interesting
Mid-Century Modernism Goes Rogue in “Chair-ish”
Artists Alex Chitty and Norman Teague give each other the permission needed to do something as heretical as saw an Eames chair into pieces.
How Patterns Change
“There is no description of a life without an account of the changes that are possible within it,” Adam Philips writes in his superb meditation on our ambivalent desire for change — ambivalence brilliantly rendered in the Vampire Problem thought experiment, illustrating the
The Baskerville Punches
John Baskerville was an influential 18th-century printer and type designer; you’ve probably used (or at least heard of) the Baskerville typeface. Cambridge University has the original punches 1 used to create his signature typeface and has made high-res digital photos of them
Merging Craft Practices and New Media at the Museum of Craft and Design
Through themes of encoding, looping, and sampling, “Video Craft” brings the craft roots of emerging film technologies into focus. Now on view in San Francisco.
My Dad Made the Biggest Jewelled Egg in the World. The Obsession Would Destroy his Marriage, Family and Fortune
"The mad venture – which my mother nicknamed ‘your father’s ego’ – would swallow my childhood."
Dani Guindo’s Dramatic Aerial Photos Reveal the Ghostly Outline of an Icelandic Glacier
Múlajökull is a surge-type glacier that cyclically flows and retreats, creating a unique pattern of lake-filled drumlins. 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
The Met Releases High-Definition 3D Scans of 140 Famous Art Objects: Sarcophagi, Van Gogh Paintings, Marble Sculptures & More
We can go through most of our lives holding out hope of one day seeing in reality such works as van Gogh’s Sunflowers, Monet’s Haystacks, a clay tablet containing actual cuneiform writing with our own eyes, or the ancient Egyptian Temple of Dendur. We can actually come face to
Necessary Losses: The Life-Shaping Art of Letting Go
"We cannot deeply love anything without becoming vulnerable to loss. And we cannot become separate people, responsible people, connected people, reflective people without some losing and leaving and letting go."
Notes From a Burmese Prison
"I came to Myanmar because, if our worst fears were coming to pass, I thought its journalists might have something to teach me."