Female philosophers: Héloïse
Morality is rooted in love, not institutions: the enduring impact of Héloïse’s 12th-century romance with Abelard - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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Artist Claire Valdez Is Ready for Congress
The New York State assembly member talks politics and painting in a Hyperallergic interview.
The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Cory Doctorow
The author of Enshittification and the new The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI on hammock life, the joy of pulp, and writing through it.
Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life
"To be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances, not to grow despondent and not to lose heart — that’s what life is all about, that's its task."
Status symbols
It’s pretty astonishing how far people will go to announce various forms of status: The list has little to do with money spent or money in the bank. Humans care about status and affiliation. We’ve spent our lives being very good at noticing both.
Every Stanley Kubrick Film Ranked from Worst to Best
If you had to pick a single figure to represent the concept of the film auteur, you could do much worse than Stanley Kubrick. That’s not to call him the greatest director who ever lived, nor even to call his body of work the greatest in cinema. But no filmography more clearly
Time Travel Back to 1926 and Watch Wassily Kandinsky Make Art in Some Rare Vintage Video
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel back in time and look over the shoulder of one of the early 20th century’s greatest artists to watch him work? In this brief film from 1926, we get to see the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky as he turns a blank canvas
Oliver Sacks on the Necessity of Our Illusions
"We need detachment... as much as we need engagement in our lives... transports that make our consciousness of time and mortality easier to bear."
Claire Valdez Wants to Be Your Artist in Congress
The New York State assemblywoman, who is running for a seat in the House of Representatives, spoke with Hyperallergic about her life as a painter, political origin story, and big plans for Washington.
Is this the sloppiest AI slop video of all time? The...
Is this the sloppiest AI slop video of all time? The AI-generated voiceover (at ~6:45) gets tripped up saying “what WWE” and basically sings Daisy Bell for more than 10 minutes until someone kicks the server.
House Proposes Slashing Nation’s Only Arts Education Grant
The program has awarded millions in grants for organizations serving families living below local poverty lines.
House Proposes Slashing Major Arts Education Grant
The program has awarded millions in grants for organizations serving families living below local poverty lines.
Kaleidoscopic Subway Mosaics Celebrate Flatbush’s Theater History
At the Church Avenue station, Christopher Myers’s glass-tiled panels explore the rich legacy of vaudeville and Afro-Caribbean carnival culture.
City of Champions
If the Knicks can do it, any of us can. Plus, must-see shows around NYC this summer: Orientalism, Pope.L, Sonia Boyce, and more.
What Makes a Person: The Seven Layers of Selfhood in Literature and Life
"It is the intentions, the capacities for choice rather than the total configuration of traits which defines the person."
If I lived in LA, I would go to this concert at the...
If I lived in LA, I would go to this concert at the Hollywood Bowl: Music From the Films of Wes Anderson . “Over three nights, musicians including Beck, Jenny Lewis, Jackson Browne, and Mothersbaugh himself perform favorite songs, scores…”
Disclosure Day surely sets a world record for the number...
Disclosure Day surely sets a world record for the number of Spielberg Faces .
Whitney Names New Director of Independent Study Program
Soyoung Yoon’s appointment comes after the museum canceled a Palestine-related performance and suspended the program for a year.
The Troubling Disappearance of ‘El Gallito’
"A Rio Grande Valley murder case was botched and evidence lost by local police and by Texas Rangers. Will anyone ever be held responsible?"
“Helter Skelter” Can’t Look America in the Eye
Nancy Spector’s curation cannot face the racial implications of Richard Prince and Arthur Jafa’s work.
Children’s Imaginations Run Wild in Taekhan Yun’s Collaborative Design Workshops
"Children, in particular, tend to view objects with a freedom that is less constrained by function, convention, or rules," Yun says. 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
Walter White’s Big Hat
In this modified scene from Breaking Bad , Walter White’s hat grows in proportion to his ego. YT commenter: “He was just brimming with confidence.” Could be time for a BB rewatch. (via @ernie.tedium.co ) Tags: Breaking Bad · remix · TV · video
10 Art Shows to See in the Bay Area This Summer
Demetri Broxton beads an ancestral path, Mildred Howard gets an overdue retrospective, 14 galleries share one space, Diedrick Brackens tends a garden, and more.
“Film posters inadvertently photographed by...
“Film posters inadvertently photographed by [British] postwar town planners.” Includes posters for Help!, Shaft, Dr. No, Planet of the Apes, and many more.
“If Platner’s past rhetoric about and treatment of...
“If Platner’s past rhetoric about and treatment of women are the natural price of running a working class candidate, isn’t the implication that working class men by nature mistreat the women in their lives? ”
A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night...
A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth . They already have 10K satellites in orbit and they want to add a million more. 🥴
Ant Hamlyn Taps into the Optimism of Y2K in Squished Floral Sculptures
His playful, cartoonish works compress stuffed polyurethane flowers between acrylic panels. 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 Ant Hamlyn Taps into
The Bible’s Deleted Scenes: A Guide to the Strange Biblical Stories Known as the Apocrypha
The term apocryphal may sound antiquated, but any reasonably serious reader encounters it fairly often, even in recently published texts. In the modern usage, it usually describes words or events that, despite probably never having been spoken or taken place, tend to be cited
New Ambient Album From Marconi Union
Marconi Union, which you might remember for creating the most relaxing song in the world , has released a new album: Multiforms: Ambient Transmissions, Vol. 3 . You can watch the visual album on YouTube or stream it from a variety of sources . This went straight into my
The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech . Like:...
The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech . Like: “4. Please, please stop asking me to verify my humanity by clicking on tiny motorcycles.” and “35. To Mark Zuckerberg, specifically: Shut up about the Roman Empire.”
Name of the Father
"A wiseguy's son steps out of his father's shadow—and into the boxing ring. But the legacy of organized crime isn't so easy to leave behind."
Commodore (you know, the 64 folks) is releasing a flip...
Commodore (you know, the 64 folks) is releasing a flip phone . “No social media, no browser. Runs 99% of Android apps (without Android). T9-style texting adds mindful friction. Audiophile grade HD Audio.”
What If It All Came Out?
"We’re each attached to years of texts, searches, and photos, an archive of humiliation that could detonate at any time."
The Astounding True Story of America's Comic Book Creators, From 'The Yellow Kid' to Superman to Webcomics
A groundbreaking cartoonist paired images with a running narrative in 1896 to create the first comic strip. They've mutated into books, blockbuster movies and Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novels