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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
Studio Museum Announces New Artists-in-Residence
Plus, this year's Prix Duchamp winners, a trove of Kiki Smith prints heads to NYPL, and more.
“an interesting linguistics find! so I’m reading this...
“an interesting linguistics find! so I’m reading this text from 1908 and it keeps referencing ‘hp’ in the context of ‘not being at full hp’ ‘applying your full hp to a task’ etc.” But it’s not hit/health points…
When Does a Woman Artist Reach Her "Prime"?
"The Prime of Your Life" examines what recognition and market success mean for 18 women artists over 75.
Louvre Among Major Paris Museums to Shutter During Saturday Protests
The Fondation Cartier, galleries including Gagosian and Perrotin, and Art Basel Paris will remain closed all weekend.
The Flipbook of the Rings
For more than a year, marshalled by animator Andy Bailey , more than 1000 artists collaborated to create a hand-drawn, shot-for-shot, animated, flipbook version of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. The entire three hours. 120,000 individually
The hotlist
I just built a page containing many of my books. Click on any one of them and it’ll take you to a directory of where you can get a copy. And the page then re-indexes based on which ones get the most clicks. https://hotlist.sethgodin.com Thanks for reading.
Meet the Painter Adorning Phoebe Bridgers’s Guitars
The musician and indie darling was drawn to John Griswold's intimate tableaux evoking Renaissance and Baroque iconographies.
An archive of Omni magazine (1978-1995), courtesy of the...
An archive of Omni magazine (1978-1995) , courtesy of the Internet Archive. “Omni was a science and science fiction magazine published in the US and the UK. It contained articles on science, parapsychology, and short works of science fiction and fantasy.”
Ursula K. Le Guin on the Meaning of Life
We are the survivors of immense and minute events — violent cosmic collisions and subtle genetic mutations, the deaths of innumerable suns and the births of innumerable cells, the splitting of continents and the splitting of atoms. Out of it all, we emerged as creatures muzzled
Nathaniel Hawthorne on How to Look and Really See
"The mystery is revealed, and after a breath or two, becomes just as great a mystery as before."
Wangari Mathenge’s Vibrant Paintings Tap into Kenya’s Paradigm Shift in the 1960s
Mathenge, who was born in Nairobi, looks to the not-so-distant past in a series of paintings called 'Re-membering.' 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
Railpass simulates a train ride in your browser window...
Railpass simulates a train ride in your browser window using real video footage. Choose from trains from around the world or add some weather to the mix. Sound on for the best ride.
Shuttering Early, Art Basel Paris Also Removes Public Sculptures
Works by Simone Fattal, Manfred Pernice, and Niki de Saint Phalle are among those that will be removed early from Winston Churchill Avenue ahead of the fair’s early closure.
Art Basel Paris Is Removing All Outdoor Sculptures
Works by Simone Fattal, Manfred Pernice, and Niki de Saint Phalle are among those that will be removed early from Winston Churchill Avenue ahead of the fair’s early closure.
The Cathedral of Learning Is Pittsburgh’s Secular Temple
This year marks the centennial of one of the most audacious projects in the history of American higher education.
This Is What It’s Like to Spend Your Life in Prison....
This Is What It’s Like to Spend Your Life in Prison . “None of us want to be defined solely by the person we were in our youth, or by the worst thing we ever did. The men serving life without parole feel the same way.”