Mamdani Doubles Grants for NYC Artists
For the last 20 years, city-funded grants for individual artists have remained at $5,000.
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OrySnack: The Bar Where Bartenders Work From Home. Small...
OrySnack: The Bar Where Bartenders Work From Home . Small robot servers in this Japanese bar are controlled by people who can only work from home because of disability or illness.
Three NYC Museum Unions Ratify Contracts, Averting Strikes
Workers at the American Folk Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum, and Guggenheim Museum had bargained for higher pay and better working conditions.
Queer Artists Say Tom of Finland Foundation Has Lost Its Way
Former artist residents of the LA nonprofit fear leadership has strayed from the radical, queer energy that Tom and his house embody.
Gaia Alari’s Lilting Animations are Drawn Frame by Frame
Meandering botanical forms, gestural dancing, and sweeping birds converge into fluid loops. 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 Gaia Alari’s Lilting
The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century
Last week, the NY Times dropped a list of The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century , as picked by a panel of “more than 500 influential stars, showrunners and other notable names in the world of TV”. The rankings have already been dissected online six ways from Sunday, but the
Mala Iqbal Paints the Space We Share With Strangers
Her new paintings remind us that the world is a room we share with strangers, most of whom are looking elsewhere.
British Museum to Provide Bayeux Tapestry Audio Tour After Lawsuit
Yusuf Ali Osman, a man with no sight, filed a suit against the museum under the UK's anti-discrimination Equality Act.
Don’t Cook That: a collection of real recipes that you...
Don’t Cook That : a collection of real recipes that you shouldn’t make. Cholera remedy recipe calls for “equal parts laudanum, rhubarb, double-strength capsicum, camphor and spirits of nitre”.
Francis Lee Rogers, Painter and Avid Birdwatcher, Found Dead in Central Park
The 63-year-old artist, who was unhoused, was known as the “Grandma Moses of Central Park” for her various depictions of its fauna and flora.
So Many Amazing Control Rooms
From the Control Rooms group on Flickr . 🤩 So many little details in all of these photos to pore over. See also Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green , The User Experience Design of Lego Interface Panels , Inside NORAD’s Cheyenne Mountain Combat Center (c. 1966) , and
Behind His Great Novels, an Unbearable Family Secret
"The Irish author Sebastian Barry has made a career of mining his family history. But he kept one story buried."
Tomás Saraceno Returns to the Past to Envision a More Just Future
In Munich, Saraceno's ecological and collaborative projects take center stage for a sweeping presentation titled 'Ancestral Futures.' 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
The Bayeux Tapestry of Fascism. “What’s this middle bit?”...
The Bayeux Tapestry of Fascism . “What’s this middle bit?” “Why, that’s the Battle of Legitimate Concerns!”
“Influencers are the private equity of culture: draining...
“ Influencers are the private equity of culture : draining whatever’s ‘cool’ until higher prices and worse experiences push out the original fan base. Then they move on to the next thing, leaving the original to die…” 🎯
Wild Hijinx and Hilarious Happenstance Reign in the 2026 Comedy Wildlife Awards
The competition welcomed its largest ever number of entries this year from photographers in 112 countries. 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 Wild
Prince Was One of the First Players of The Oregon Trail
In this video , Patrick Hicks tells the story of the development of the classic educational video game The Oregon Trail and how Prince (you know, the genius musical artist) was one of the first people in the world to play the very first version of the game. The basic story is
A “Kelvin wave” powered by El Niño will soon raise sea...
A “Kelvin wave” powered by El Niño will soon raise sea levels in California “by half a foot or more” . “It’s ‘highly probable’ that California will soon witness its highest sea levels ever recorded.”
What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
"I began to do what I do — reading and writing and thinking about misogyny—because of my dismay at how girls and women are treated on campus, and at other college campuses across America."
The Student Journalists Who Never Let the Cornell Assault...
The Student Journalists Who Never Let the Cornell Assault Case Go . “Why be financially independent, [editor in chief Sophia Dasser] wondered, if not to publish sharp-edged views of the biggest campus issues?”
The Resistance Is Not Dead
Fall of Freedom is back for another round, Alice Neel’s drawings of the Foley Square trials go to auction, and the unsung architect behind DC’s landmark African-American history and culture museum.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Recommending notable stories from Caitlin Dickerson, Marci Wilding, Tiffany Huang, Nick Paumgarten, and Chabeli Carrazana.
Life on a hair trigger
A world of violence sustains itself through guns, poverty and other social ills, but also through the minds it creates - by Megan Kang Read on Aeon
Modern vanity
“Vanity” has the same root as “in vain.” Emptiness. Staring at the mirror, focusing on our appearance. It’s an empty pursuit of a not-very-worthwhile goal. But modern vanity is amplified. Culture hooked the toxic emotion of shame to vanity. Now, instead of a chance to be seen