In 2025, Harvard once again began asking applicants to submit an SAT or ACT score. This was a reversal of the no-test-necessary policy that it and quite a few other American colleges and universities adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic. To some observers of higher education,
As we’ve noted before, the English coffeehouse has served as a staging ground for radical, sometimes revolutionary social change. Certainly this was the case during the Enlightenment, as it was with the salons in France. And yet, by the early 20th century it seems, coffee shops
We started our series of interviews with queer and trans elders, and the Guggenheim kicks off its World Cup screenings.
Every time I see a link to one of of Car Pal’s BeamNG car simulator videos, I have to stop what I’m doing and watch it. (It’s becoming a problem.) This one was particularly good: Is it possible to reach the speed of light with perpetual speed boosters?
“You have to be a person who champions other work,” they told Hyperallergic, “so that you build the context within which your work can be legible.”
Anthropic has launched a streaming music video on YouTube for “thinking and building” called Claude FM . “Made and curated by musicians.”
Linda Ganjian worked to salvage pieces from water damage after a blaze erupted in the Long Island City building where she and Ilan Averbach had studios.
A joint biography of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek, a catalog on Martin Wong’s Chinatowns, Catherine Opie’s portraiture, queer nightlife through the ages, and more.
Refik Anadol’s Dataland is a whirling, glaring, hyper-stimulating audio-visual-olfactory voyage that has more in common with Disneyland.
CrankGPT . “Just a hand crank, a little computer, and a small stack of speech and language models running locally. Provided the electronics are kept dry and at a reasonable temperature, there’s no reason this thing won’t still work in a thousand years.”
The show of pieces from the Tia Collection opening next week at Yorkshire Sculpture Park features nearly 70 works by 38 artists. 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
Each figure in her paintings luxuriates in the dreaminess of space belonging to her and her alone.
On the Difference Between Rest and Idleness . “The wellness industry loves rest [because] rest can be sold, because rest promises a return.” But: “[Idleness] does not promise to make you better at anything. It offers no return on investment.”
René Magritte's “The Castle of the Pyrenees” (1959) was removed from view to undergo restoration.
The Chicago school is investigating the director of its art therapy graduate program after she assigned a case study that touched on pro-Palestine activism.
I (weirdly?) love Amy Casey’s paintings of buildings in peril — being swallowed by the sea, being flung into the sky by wind. There’s an element of the Kowloon Walled City to Casey’s work, as well as Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (specifically the tomato tornado). (via
Everything Wrong With the 2026 World Cup . “By far the most grave of those is a World Cup host starting a war against one of the participant nations, as happened with the USA’s attack on Iran at the end of February.”
Yesterday, Ollie and I hiked up to Delta Lake (via Lupine Meadows Access) in Grand Teton National Park. It was perhaps a bit aggressive given my current lack of fitness, my non-acclimation to the altitude (we topped out at 9000’), and the rock scrambling we had to do near the
'Lost Landing' features Alexis Mata's glitched landscapes in which familiar terrain appears otherworldly. 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 Cacti and
TIL about variant sudoku puzzles , “sudoku with strange rules like thermometers, ratio dots, cages, and other things that you’re probably already confused by”.
The excellent Scene on Radio podcast is back with a new season on The News . “Just about everyone is mad at the media, and Americans seem helpless to solve our problems, in large part because we have no shared narrative and few shared facts.”
Élise Vigneron of Théâtre de L'entrouvert and Satchie Noro of Companie Furankaï join forces for performances all summer long. 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.
"It wouldn't have been failure to be bankrupt, dishonoured, pilloried, hanged; it was failure not to be anything."
"The state’s outbreak means adapting to America’s new reality, in which vaccine-preventable diseases become common again."
"The neurophysiological disorder is characterized by a severe aversion to sound—and the struggle to convince others of the severity of that aversion."
"On May 22, a 7-year-old reached the summit of El Capitan. Why are so many climbers upset about it?"
Italian art workers announce a nationwide strike, New York’s Penn Station to feature Trump’s name, and have you heard about the “Obamalisk”?
Yes, we’re in a world of our own: for the autistic mind, it’s a place of intense curiosity, deep focus and sensory delight - by Sarah Hendrickx Read on Aeon
Five stories that explore the risks and rewards of life's little hurdles.