“The clan of predators currently in charge of the...
“The clan of predators currently in charge of the U.S. federal government” are striving to make the world safe for grift, corruption, and theft , with their mob boss president leading the way.
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Across Two Exhibitions, Jaume Plensa’s Monumental Sculptures Unite Scale and Material
An exploration of the human figure, use of architectural materials, and the perception of space. 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 Across Two
Walking Men Worldwide
Artist Maya Barkai assembled a collection of pedestrian traffic signals from around the world: Walking Men Worldwide . I love all of these little people. The Warsaw one reminds me somewhat of Rocky from Project Hail Mary. Some of the ones from smaller places have more
Liu Wei’s Met Facade Comission Reflects Our Moment
On view through next June, Liu's sculpture series “Speculation” (2026) contemplates the contradictory elements of collapse and civic transformation.
Leon Black Plans to Turn Woolworth Mansion Into His Own Museum, Book Reveals
The disgraced financier, whose ties to Jeffrey Epstein are being investigated in Congress, told author William D. Cohan that he wants to turn the Manhattan property into “his version of the Neue Galerie.”
Instant click for me: how NYC street signs are made ....
Instant click for me: how NYC street signs are made . “The sign shop…has a staff of 46 workers, including seven letterers who lay out signs by hand and a blacksmith who makes custom brackets to securely attach signs to traffic poles.”
The History of Concrete , a new documentary film by John...
The History of Concrete , a new documentary film by John Wilson, who one review called “the Werner Herzog of the mundane”. This looks great!
Against the Cartesian Myth of Work/Life Balance: André Gregory’s Extraordinary Letter to Richard Avedon about the Nature of Creativity
Half a millennium into our recovery from the civilizational wound Descartes inflicted by severing the body and the mind, we are bleeding with a Cartesian cleft of our own making — the damaging divide between life and work. The notion of a “workaholic,” often worn as a badge on
The Stoic Key to Living with Presence: Seneca on Time Spent vs. Saved vs. Wasted
"Lay hold of to-day’s task, and you will not need to depend so much upon to-morrow’s. While we are postponing, life speeds by. Nothing... is ours, except time."
Borusan Contemporary Presents Two New Exhibitions
From “the act of looking” to intelligent technologies, “Olivo Barbieri: Time Space Geometry” and “Haunted” explore how images shape our perception of reality. Opening September 19, 2026.
Review of a new book on Stephen Hawking . “The...
Review of a new book on Stephen Hawking . “The uncomfortable truth is that Hawking’s overweening ambition and self-promotion, his repeated failure to acknowledge the work of others, his sexism and controlling behaviour were largely ignored…”
A View From the Easel
“Piles to start a project, piles during a project, and piles of stuff after it is finished.”
Through Carved Wooden Assemblages, Daniel Minter Communes with the Spiritual
"Do objects transmit spirituality? No, they remind us of our spirituality." —Daniel Minter 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 Through Carved Wooden
The Blind Birdwatcher
Uruguayan birder Juan Pablo Culasso , who was born blind, has been recording and collecting bird songs for more than two decades. I think that because I’m blind, I enjoy birds differently. Bird songs are my way of appreciating and understanding this world. Culasso is aided in
From our own Edith Zimmerman for the New Yorker, some...
From our own Edith Zimmerman for the New Yorker, some Updated Jane Austen Titles like Dead-Ass Karen and Red-Flag Baddie and Brain-Rot Third Space.
Ed Sheeran Should Stop Thinking Out Loud
Artists skewer the singer for dropping his pro-Palestine openers, tiny hot dogs at Affordable Art Fair, and the bizarre selections of TIME100 Art.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Showcasing stories from J.B. MacKinnon, Daniel Kolitz, Daniel Shailer, Justin Neuman, and Hanif Abdurraqib.
Cosmic amnesia
A black hole rings like a struck bell, then settles into silence, forgetting almost everything about its history. Why? - by Richard Dyer Read on Aeon
A series of bad decisions
Sometimes we make poor choices. And, unrelated to that, sometimes bad luck happens. The real problem kicks in after that. One bad decision after another. Choices that compound the problem instead of solving it. Digging a deeper hole, amplifying the damage and spreading the
Rage Against the Machines: From the Luddites to the AI Data Center Backlash
One often-repeated anecdote about Milton Friedman has the famous economist visiting a canal under construction in nineteen-sixties China. Noticing the sheer number of human laborers digging away with shovels, he asked the official in charge why they weren’t getting the work
The Coziest Place on the Moon: Or, How to Bear Your Loneliness
On July 26, 2022, as I was living through a period of acute loneliness despite being a naturally solitary person, NASA reported that computer modeling of data from its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) had revealed several cylindrical pits on the Moon with just the right shape
On Losing a Parent
We spend our lives mastering the art of losing. Our necessary losses shape us; the unnecessary, senseless, devastating losses bend our shape to test our breaking point. We can lose people to life — to conflict, to confusion, to the consequences of their trauma — losses painful
“ Szilveszter Makó’s surreal portraits have become...
“ Szilveszter Makó’s surreal portraits have become nearly as recognisable as the celebrities he photographs. ” But: “Artists who become successful for a signature style are then accused of monotony for being hired to reproduce it.”
The Best and the Absolute Worst of the TIME 100 List
Amy Sherald shines on the magazine’s uneven list, Artadia names a new director, Johnny Depp's awfulness, and more in Art Movements.
A Tiny Hot Dog Art Show and Other Treasures at Affordable Art Fair
Dylan Martinez's glass-blown water balloons, Deanna Billy Projects' mini wiener paintings, and Abu Oluwaseyi's abstract portraits all caught my eye at this year’s NYC edition.
Nirvana On the Cusp
This is a video of Nirvana playing Smells Like Teen Spirit in a small club just two days after Nevermind came out in 1991. There’s a freight train bearing down on those boys and they don’t even know it. (via digg ) See also The Notorious B.I.G. freestyling on a Brooklyn corner
Artists Fear Displacement as ChaShaMa Forced to Vacate Studios
The organization will lose half of its studio spaces to a tenant who wants to expand their footprint in the Brooklyn Army Terminal building.
African-American Blacksmiths Forge a Lineage of Sankofa
Blacksmiths in the South have long embedded West African symbolism into gates, rails, and window bars, proof that the craft evolved with every hand that held the hammer.
Anish Kapoor Is a One-Trick Illusionist
What does the British artist have to offer beyond monumental scale and costly optical illusions?
New book from Ed Yong! Life Beyond Measure:...
New book from Ed Yong! Life Beyond Measure: Nature’s Hidden Wonders at Every Scale . “A bristlecone pine rounds the corner of its fifth millennium; shorebirds fly without stopping across the world’s largest ocean…” Out in April, pre-order now .