Now more than ever, there’s tremendous pressure to make it big while you’re young. Pity the 31-year-old who fails to make it onto a 30-under-30 list… The soon-to-graduate high schooler passed over for YouTube stardom… The great hordes who creep into middle age without so much
A special collection curated for Colossal readers. 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 Limited-Edition Screenprints for the Budding Collector appeared
T-shirts revolutionize the Costume Institute’s programming, the sociability of MoMA’s Brancusi exhibit, and the curators of the 2028 Whitney Biennial announced.
A short history of Lego instructions from 1955 to the present . “Prior to [1955] the only ‘guidance’ for products containing plastic bricks were drawings on the packaging to serve as inspiration for consumers.”
The private collection opened its Branchline location in Katonah as a way to bring Native art into public view, though questions linger about its engagement with the local Lenape community.
Some $184 million will go toward the revival of 70 Mulberry Street, which once housed community-based organizations.
A decade since Sara Maria Salamone and Tyler Lafreniere found their storefront space on Craigslist, the gallery presents a rotating anniversary show that channels its evolving nature.
María Sosa and Noé Martínez, the Michoacán artists representing Mexico at the Venice Biennale, hand-painted 260 ceramic tiles for the installation.
Satellite images of sand dunes migrating in Egypt . They move about 13 meters a year.
"It will not be allowed to be touched by anybody,” Trump said, which is flatly not true, as anyone can reverse the proclamation.
A Los Angeles exhibition surveys the groundbreaking queer artist's multi-decade career, including her memorable work on the politics of vocal expression.
The US Postal Service recently released a partial list of the stamps it’s putting out in 2027. One of the sets is Mythical Creatures , featuring five cryptids. 1 The legend of Mothman has endured for more than six decades, but of the creatures encountered on these stamps, this
How to Build a Police State . “Bukele didn’t declare a dictatorship on day one. He built toward it incrementally, each step framed in the language of anti-corruption, public safety or efficiency.”
The competition saw its highest-ever number of entries this year. 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 Bats, Spiders, and Slime Molds Make the Close-Up
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and illustrator Mona Chalabi’s new book is about wealth inequality in America. Ten Lives: How What We Have Shapes Who We Are ( Amazon ) follows ten people with ten different incomes, from the bottom 10% to the top 10% and everything
“Time is a river that sweeps me along, but I am a river,” Borges wrote. “Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.” Most of us are not Borges. Most of us are drowning in bewilderment at where the time goes, burning with the urgency of being alive while waiting to
Great title for an article about London’s invasive parakeet population: The Pollycrisis . “Do we want tens of thousands of Himalayan parrots squabbling all over our cities?”
Genser's undulating abstractions evoke marine swells, reefs, and the topography of the sea floor. 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 Amy Genser’s
The ebook of The Knot is on sale today for less than $5 in the US. Thanks for checking it out. Also, here’s a preview of the three-book holiday bundle. It’s limited to the first 170 folks.
This residency at the U-M Stamps School, in partnership with the U-M Museum of Art (UMMA), offers artists a $20,000 honorarium, housing, studio space, and a culminating exhibition in UMMA’s prominent Stenn Gallery.
The NY Times recently asked 100 scientists from across dozens of disciplines: “What is a big unanswered question in your field?” Here are some of their questions that caught my eye: 4. When and where did the cognitive capacities that made language, mathematics and complex
The Bayeux tapestry, a new biography of Edward Hopper, The Met's exhibition catalogue on Krasner and Pollock, what architecture is, and more
“There was not a single outlet, institution, or gallery that wanted to get behind this thing,” the artist told Hyperallergic about his new, six-hour performance piece.
Another banger from neal.fun: Battle Draw . Sort of an open world tower defense “game”?
"Fraudsters have long counterfeited high-end wine. Now they are coming for the bottles on your supermarket shelves."
"Tom Lee sat through all 18 days of the would-be guru’s trial."
"A teenage boy went into surgery for a broken arm and emerged with brain damage. His mother was determined to figure out what had happened."
Roshi Joan Halifax is an original, generous, gritty and profound Buddhist teacher. How does she look back on her life? - by Ben Daitz Read on Aeon
An interview with the Pulitzer Prize winner, Lori Waxman on bringing sexy back in Chicago, stolen Picasso prints found, and the problem with clouds.
"A mixed-age permaculture school in Mexico is showing how an education based on autonomy and care prepares students better for life."
When an organization is struggling, it’s tempting for the boss to blame the team. I’m not sure the evidence supports this. After all, other similar organizations are thriving–drawing from precisely the same labor pool. Sure, it’s easier to be a coach if Michael Jordan is on
A journalist paid Henri Matisse a visit not long after he’d painted The Red Studio in 1911. “I like it, but I don’t completely understand it,” the artist is quoted as admitting of that latest work. “I like it, but I don’t know why I precisely painted it this way.” The painting
Willy Van Mechelen was one of the most celebrated police officers in Belgian history, responsible for solving infamous kidnappings, robberies, and murders. Then Antwerp’s lucrative drug trade came calling.