“A group of runners starts jogging around a circular track, with each runner maintaining a unique, constant pace. Will every runner end up ‘lonely,’ or relatively far from everyone else, at least once, no matter their speeds?”
"I think of playgrounds as a primer of shapes and functions; simple, mysterious and evocative; thus educational," Isamu Noguchi said. 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
Jay Graber is stepping down as CEO of Bluesky to “transition to a new role as Bluesky’s Chief Innovation Officer”. And they’re looking for a new permanent CEO.
The Baghdad-born artist speaks about war and art, Amoako Boafo recreates his studio for an exhibition, Thaddeus Mosley passes away at 99, and how a small Texas town became a participatory art project.
"In 1983 six students were taken hostage in a Cornell dormitory. Two of them were killed. How have the survivors reckoned with what happened to them, and what made us forget about this act of violence?"
Franz Boas helps us solve the puzzle of where our emotional lives originate: in our selves or in the cultures around us - by Noga Arikha Read on Aeon
A hardcover book printed in 1925 is almost indistinguishable from one printed yesterday. It’s easy to think not much has changed. But book publishing isn’t about printing, and it’s a useful metaphor for the systems changes we’re seeing all around us. The book publishing system
During Wimbledon a few years ago, a thread about King Felipe VI of Spain went viral. It was posted to the social media platform formerly known as Twitter by Derek Guy, author of the menswear blog Die, Workwear! “Very rare to see this level of tailoring nowadays, even on the
With the savage cuts in arts funding, perhaps we’ll return to a system of noblesse oblige familiar to students of The Gilded Age, when artists needed independent wealth or patronage, and wealthy industrialists often decided what was art, and what wasn’t. Unlike fine art,
Language is a container for thought and feeling that shapes the contents. The great danger is that we come to mistake the shape for the substance, reducing concepts and experiences we cannot name or contain to the words tasked with holding the spill of the ineffable. (This is
Joumana Asseily said she temporarily closed her gallery in Beirut amid evacuation orders last week
Olayami Dabls founded the MBAD African Bead Museum in 1994 to reintroduce African culture and healing into the Detroit community. 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
With fewer than 700 residents, Kingsbury has become a hub for cultural governance and sovereignty, largely thanks to advocacy led by arts organization Habitable Spaces.
The story of Lisette Model and other photographers who shaped the way we historicize social movements today.
How the warm rays of hope and healing enter the dark inner chamber of leaden loneliness through the unexpected cracks of kindness.
The Pittsburgh artist remained largely overlooked until the last decade of his life.
“What if we taught students to use AI critically, rather than insisting they ignore it or assume they’re using it to cheat?” asks college freshman Maximilian Milovidov . “Students will reach for these tools, whether universities ban them or not.”