Ultra-tall high-rises against dark skies. A huge distance between the rich and the poor. Robber barons at the helm of large-scale industrial operations that turn man into machine. Machines that have become intelligent enough to displace man. These have all been standard
“Will it work?” Along the way, we’ve been pushed to load our decisions with a need for certainty. It’s easier, it seems, to not try than it is to fail. But the question, “is it worth trying?” unlocks possibility. A surgeon in the middle of an operation should probably not
?si=l7KWVf9NZBUkPyM6 In July 1963, Bob Dylan made his first appearance at the Newport Folk Festival. On opening night, he captivated a crowd of 13,000 with a performance of “Blowin’ in the Wind,” accompanied by Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, and Peter, Paul, and Mary. Then, the
Located in the heart of LA’s Little Tokyo neighborhood, the museum embraces the Japanese-American experience in all its permutations, including aspects that other persecuted and marginalized communities can recognize.
Oh man, rest in peace to Val Kilmer . 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
“Watch the moment when Cory Booker ended his more than 25-hour long Senate speech.”
“The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours,” the Canadian psychiatrist Eric Berne observed in his 1964 classic Games People Play. Four centuries earlier, Galileo had both combated and complicated the problem by inventing timekeeping and with
On April 5th, a group of prominent national organizations (including 50501 , Indivisible , Hands Off , MoveOn , and Women’s March ) and many local organizations are all coming together for a day of nationwide action and protest . This is a nationwide mobilization to stop the
A two-part online training event on the Fundamentals of Organizing . It kicked off tonight at 5:30pm ET and part 2 is on April 8.
The exhibitions below, featuring such artists as Deborah-Joyce Holman and Luis Fernando Benedit, ask viewers to spend time with art that’s slower to reveal itself.
The artist’s bioart habitats eerily reflect human environments where sociopolitical and socioeconomic cultural conditions force the illusion of standardization as a natural state.
Purdum’s layered and scraped-away paintings may resemble aspects of the natural world but they allude to an experience beyond language.
Exposure at Ulterior Gallery might not offer the quick answers our ever-shrinking attention spans demand, but much in this show is worth a second view.
The injunction of a group show centered around the multivalent flower is to wander the field and pluck what suits you.
Amid a rising death toll and worsening human rights crisis, the 7.7-magnitude quake took down mosques, pagodas, monasteries, and other landmarks.
The record for the longest individual speech in the Senate belongs to segregationist Strom Thurmond . He spoke for 24 hours & 18 minutes in a racist and futile attempt to prevent the Civil Rights Act of 1957 from passing.
Processing of 2025 grant applications has been halted after Trump moved to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
His practice was driven by a constant striving to reframe how we see works of art and the world around us.
'The World Has Dropped Its Petals' is a series of elaborately detailed drawings illuminating the world of flowers. 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
Mercator Extreme is a fun tool that you can use to choose any point on Earth as the pole and then view the resulting ultra-distorted Mercator map. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
With a headline like this, how can you resist? On the Best (Worst) Best Man Speech Ever (at My Super Mario-Themed Wedding) . “After he finished his speech, he received applause and cheers from one and a half tables and dead silence from the rest.” 💬 Join the discussion on
“A fragile 13th century manuscript fragment, hidden in plain sight as the binding of a 16th-century archival register, has been discovered in Cambridge and revealed to contain rare medieval stories of Merlin and King Arthur .” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
No One Is Safe From America’s Abusive Immigration Authorities Anymore . “Immigration agents are increasingly using the full statutory powers that they always had, choosing to detain, abuse, and deport these tourists & workers instead of working with them.”
Attention, artists, designers, and creatives! These opportunities offer $500,000+ in funding to support your work. 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
Historian Heather Cox Richardson says that Facebook is removing her posts . Her two most recent posts, both critical of the Trump regime, are not on the platform anymore.
From Aubrey Hirsch, It Could Be Much, Much Worse , an illustrated guide to what health care and insurance was like in the US before the ACA. You can also find this guide on Instagram . Tags: Aubrey Hirsch · comics · healthcare · politics 💬 Join the discussion on
Of Course Trump Will Tank the Economy. It’s What Republicans Do. “They screw up the economy. Later down the line, Democrats get elected and have to fix everything.”
Everyday objects "help set a mental stage for the abstract process of thinking about the past," Ledford says. 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
In this 10-minute video, John Lithgow reads each of the lessons from Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century ( Bookshop ). Number two: defend institutions. It is institutions that help us to preserve decency. They need our help as well. Do not
Tressie McMillan Cottom: AI is mid tech for mid tasks . “The use cases for artificial intelligence across every domain of work and life have started to get silly really fast.”
By delivering newspapers, munitions and secret messages to resistance groups, among many other incredible tasks, the brave fighters strove for a freer world
"What urban wildlife can teach us about cognition, survival, and how to be good neighbors"