Portrait of a Paris Art Week on Fire
On protest, business as usual, and the surreal experience of attending an art fair while smelling burning plastic.
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How Art Can Deliver Justice for Refugees
In the legal system, art created by refugees and incarcerated people can serve both as a form of therapy and as evidence of mass atrocities.
The War on Art Is Repeating Itself
As an artist who lived through the Reagan-era Culture Wars, I recommend Isaac Butler’s “The Perfect Moment” for the stories that parallel our current fight to defend creative expression.
Kid Cudi to Write, Direct, and Star as Basquiat in New Biopic
The rapper called his forthcoming film, "JEAN," a “love letter” to the late artist and ’80s New York in his announcement on October 21.
The Center Cannot Hold at the Toronto Biennial
It’s a provocative and discursive exploration of how artists respond to our late-capitalist epoch, but its focus on “rupture” raises questions.
The One Question I Can’t Stand at Restaurants. “The idea...
The One Question I Can’t Stand at Restaurants . “The idea of a restaurant I’d never been to using a dossier on me to decide, say, where I should sit, what I was likely to order, even whether I should be given a reservation at all, gave me chills.”
Scientists Contest Dating of Van Gogh’s "The Starry Night"
The researchers identified discrepancies between the celestial alignments in June 1889 and Vincent van Gogh’s painted night sky.
“US households are paying 62% more for drinking water...
“ US households are paying 62% more for drinking water than they did a decade ago — outpacing inflation, grocery prices and household incomes.”
A View From the Easel: Gerardo Rosales
“I often say that my favorite material is the next one, the one I haven’t worked with yet.”
‘Street Photography Africa’ is a Colorful and Energetic Survey Across the Continent
The street becomes a stage. 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 ‘Street Photography Africa’ is a Colorful and Energetic Survey Across the Continent
Skirball Cultural Center presents “The 1960s — A Generation on Fire: Judy Baca’s Great Wall of Los Angeles”
The exhibition shares two new sections of the public art mural on view for the first time, featuring moments from an era of collective action that still resonates today.
How to Be Transformed When Things Fall Apart
"Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us."
Open Thread #Potato
Seems like it’s a good time for an open thread. I cannot remember what number we’re up to, so it’s “Potato”. I just had french fries for lunch and ate the longest french fry I have ever seen. 1 I should have taken a photo, but I was in consumption mode and not attention mode.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Doubt, idiocracy, baseball, meals, and fish. Find out why these five stories stood out.
Au Revoir, Art Basel Paris
French museums and galleries are shuttering before nationwide protests tomorrow. Plus: What does it mean for a woman artist to “reach her prime”?
The relentless math of bandwagoning
It often seems that everyone is talking about what everyone is talking about. No one cares about a song or a movie or a political issue–and then they do. Then it’s everywhere. But of course, that’s precisely why. Most people feel safe when they’re engaging within the expected
Watch Rome Rise, Fall, and Rise Again in a Three-Minute 3D Timelapse
Scholars disagree on when, exactly, Rome fell. But if you watch the new video from City 3D Timelapse above, you’ll understand the lack of debate on the question of whether it fell. Around the turn of the sixth century AD, buildings start vanishing at a rate that soon turns
The Wildest Bet Is the Winning Bet
We place life’s bets by countless calculations of probability, conscious and unconscious, only to discover over and over how short they fall of the wildest reaches of the possible, which always includes but exceeds the probable. It helps to remember that we ourselves are