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Infinite Jeffs is an actual physical book you can buy...
Infinite Jeffs is an actual physical book you can buy in which “every one of the ~550,000 words in Infinite Jest [is replaced] with ‘Jeff’ while preserving punctuation, line breaks, etc.”
How Should a Book Sound? And What About Footnotes?...
How Should a Book Sound? And What About Footnotes? Footnotes present “kind of a nasty problem for an audiobook: where do the footnotes go? There is no bottom of the page in an audiobook, obviously.”
Out now: new Boards of Canada album. Get it wherever you...
Out now: new Boards of Canada album. Get it wherever you buy or stream music .
The True Crime Story of a Notorious Looter
How Douglas Latchford got away with it; plus, Frank Stella’s Navajo weavings.
Artist of sympathy and cruelty
Mozart’s genius lay in writing music of such power that he could draw his audience into morally wrenching predicaments - by Dorian Bandy Read on Aeon
“Because you’re the cheapest”
If we choose you based on price, please don’t be surprised if we leave the moment someone else uses the same tactic on you. Low price is a temporary refuge for a marketer who has run out of useful ways to improve the experience and deliver more value.
Albert Camus on the Three Antidotes to the Absurdity of Life
"In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among men, a greater sincerity."
The Looter Who Built Your Favorite Museum
A new book maps the network that allowed Douglas Latchford to violently rip Khmer statues from their homes and funnel them into Western institutions.
Art Movements: Wolfgang Tillmans Wins Europe's Richest Art Prize
The first public exhibition of Jack White's artwork, Cheryl Finley gets the David C. Driskell Prize, and more news to know.
Required Reading
This week: a record-breaking World Cup mural in Mexico City, the Gen Z of 19th-century France, van Gogh and AI, and more.
Matte Marble Dust Glimmers Across Marin Majic’s Enigmatic Scenes
Marin Majic uses marble dust to accentuate and define light, creating a twinkling effect with otherwise matte stone. 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
David Humphrey Is Allergic to Style
The artist challenges the status quo of postmodernism, not by knocking it over but by slyly subverting it.
From The Mandalorian and Grogu, an extended loop of...
From The Mandalorian and Grogu, an extended loop of Shakari , a synth-y track from composer Ludwig Göransson. See also Niamos from Andor (composed by Nicholas Britell).
Figurative Expressionist Painter Jay Milder Dies at 92
He carved out a space for himself in the downtown art scene as a bold artist and gallerist who championed contemporaries such as Claes Oldenburg and Jim Dine.
A Look Into Frank Stella's Mesmerizing Collection of Diné Textiles
The late artist's trove of Navajo weavings is on public display for the first time at Arader Galleries in NYC ahead of a sale.
Not a surprise but nice to have the data: the Federal...
Not a surprise but nice to have the data: the Federal Reserve calculated that inflation would be much lower without Trump’s stupid tariffs .
Two video upgrades
It took me thirty years to populate the bookshelf that’s behind me in most of my videos. Most of us don’t have the time or patience to do that. At the same time, the wonky computer-generated background many people use on Zoom calls undermines the impact and authority you might
The Backward Index
How do dictionary makers keep track of similarly suffixed words, like those ending in -ism, -graphy, -ness, or -ology? With a computer, it’s simple, but how did they do it before the computing age? Starting in the 1950s, lexicographers at Merriam-Webster typed all of the words
On The Fuel Efficiency of Launching My Enemies Into The...
On The Fuel Efficiency of Launching My Enemies Into The Sun . Incredibly nerdy and fun: does it require more power to eject a person from the solar system or launch them into the Sun?
I Turned Off My Phone for a Month and Used a Landline
"No texts, no Instagram, no subway Slack."
The Rise & Fall Of ‘Petty Tyrants’ . “The energy...
The Rise & Fall Of ‘Petty Tyrants’ . “The energy required to deceive is unsustainable. Reality is relentless. The tyrant who chooses to fight it is doomed.”