Idaho Pushed Anti-Trans Laws for Years. Then a Teen Died.
"The life and death of May Pollard, 16, provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America."
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Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara Is Free
The Cuban dissident artist is exiled to the US and a Homerist reviews Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey.”
The people’s atheist
Jean Meslier, a rural French priest, argued that religion is designed to produce subjects who will automatically obey - by Nidal Taibi Read on Aeon
The Having/Doing job gap
It’s a dance between workers, bosses and the market. The most stable quadrant happens when a thoughtful and consistent boss hires the right person, pays them fairly, creates positive working conditions and useful training. In return, the company gets extraordinary performance.
Hear the Haunting Sound of an Ancient Celtic War Trumpet: Silent for 2,000 Years, It Now Sounds Again
Norfolk is known for its network of rivers and lakes, its stock of medieval churches, and for being the home county of Alan Partridge. Last year, it quite literally unearthed another mark of distinction in the form of an iron age war trumpet. “The bronze trumpet or carnyx is
Getting Dressed During World War I: A Fascinating Look at How Soldiers, Nursers & Others Dressed During the Great War
Not to diminish the nightmare of mortars and shrapnel, but as evidenced by Crow’s Eye Productions’ period-accurate dressing video above, one of the greatest horrors of WWI was wet wool. Decades before the invention of Gore-Tex, Polar Fleece, and other high-performance,
The Lost Joy of Music Piracy . “Still to this day,...
The Lost Joy of Music Piracy . “Still to this day, I’ve never seen such an actively maintained network of knowledge and output, it really sucked me in.”
Epictetus on Love and Loss: The Stoic Strategy for Surviving Heartbreak
"Who is good if he knows not who he is? and who knows what he is, if he forgets that things which have been made are perishable, and that it is not possible for one human being to be with another always?"
A Homerist’s Review of “The Odyssey”
Historian Joel Christensen reacts to Christopher Nolan’s epic, artists speak candidly about AI, and a forthcoming film adaptation of the Louvre heist.
Goofy Oversized Wicker Costumes
Artist Lewis Prosser describes himself on Instagram as an “absurdist basket-maker”. His costumes for a project called Making Merrie reflect that self-description. Making Merrie explores the material culture of folk theatre. Inspired by mummers’ plays and masked traditions
Excerpt from a longer (podcast) conversation with John...
Excerpt from a longer (podcast) conversation with John Waters about how he used to work at Mary Oliver’s bookstore in Provincetown . “They had this bookshop where you were allowed to be mean to the customers. It was really fun.”
A Homerist Reacts to Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey”
“This is a tale of a man affected by trauma, but without any sense that it changed him at all.”
New Museum's Shiny New Building Leaks During Flash Floods
No artworks were harmed, but extreme weather shuttered the Lower Manhattan museum for a full weekend.
Cuban Artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara Exiled to the US
The dissident artist arrived in Miami after serving five years in a maximum-security prison outside Havana.
Filmmaker Ava DuVernay is making a documentary about the...
Filmmaker Ava DuVernay is making a documentary about the 14th amendment , “spotlighting America’s long running and sometimes bloody battle with itself over who is a citizen and how much freedom they get”.
A Beastie Boy Returns to the Mic, With Some Help
"Thanks to an assist from his sons, Mike D is set to release “Thank You,” the first new music from a member of the pioneering rap trio in 15 years."
On Japan’s visible evidence of care . “American...
On Japan’s visible evidence of care . “American service providers, private and public, increasingly run like ghost ships. Japanese technology and design seemed in greater service to humans, their journeys, and enterprises.”
Watch 1969’s Apollo 11 Moon Landing “Live!”
57 years ago today, on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon and went for a little walk. For the 18th year in a row, you can watch the original CBS News coverage of Walter Cronkite reporting on the Moon landing and the first Moon walk on a small B&W
The Sunflower Effect of Kyung-Me
The artist’s current series marks a shift in her practice, evoking the life span of a sunflower — from blooming to dying, from sharply defined forms to rivulets of dissolution.
Activists Sue to Stop Frida Kahlo Works From Leaving Mexico
It’s the latest in the battle over the Gelman Santander Collection, a trove of 161 works by artists including Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros that is slated to travel to Spain this fall.
Presence, Memory, and Time Merge in the Surreal Works of ‘Architects of Absence’
The group exhibition at Gallery Wendi Norris plumbs the dialogue between absence and presence. 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 Presence, Memory,
A Texan Risked Everything to Defend Ukraine. So Did His Father.
"Erik Giggleman was an elite Army soldier who went in search of a righteous struggle and found it in Ukraine. As his commitment deepened, his father confronted an excruciating truth: Either the conflict would end, or Erik would die fighting."
Trump Whitewashes George Washington’s Slavery History in New Display
The panels installed by the administration in Philadelphia come just six months after Trump ordered the removal of the outdoor exhibition Freedom and Slavery in the Making of a New Nation.
Open Call 2027: Jentel Artist Residency
A Mountain West residency for artists, writers, and composers.
I love the 1-bit aesthetic of this story-driven city...
I love the 1-bit aesthetic of this story-driven city builder game called GlagStone .
A High-Definition Cinematic Video Relives NASA’s Artemis II Mission
John D. Boswell, a musician and filmmaker who works as MELODYSHEEP, created the film from videos and images published by NASA. 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.
How to Love the World More: George Saunders on the Courage of Uncertainty
"In a world full of people who seem to know everything, passionately, based on little (often slanted) information, where certainty is often mistaken for power, what a relief it is to be in the company of someone confident enough to stay unsure (that is, perpetually curious)."
Sleep and the Meaning of Life: Fernando Pessoa on the Existential Dimension of the Horizontal Hours
One of the most important things I have learned about living is that, in any life of purpose and creative vitality, you must be as religious and disciplined about your sleep as about your work. And yet one of the great self-betrayals of our culture is the way it wears the lack
The Meaning of Nolan’s The Odyssey
I suspect like many of you, I saw The Odyssey this weekend. I really liked it and the more I read & think about the film, the more it grows in my esteem. This thread by Mmina Maclang-Tamayo (spoilers!) is pretty much how I interpreted what Nolan was trying to convey. As it
From BBC Earth, the trailer for Evolution , a...
From BBC Earth, the trailer for Evolution , a five-part series premiering on PBS in October . “Ponder this: All the incredible diversity of animal life on Earth sprang from a single organism. Every animal, no matter how weird, is related to every other.”