Sometimes, when I can’t sleep, I mentally revisit the various homes of my childhood, wandering from room to room, turning on lights and peering in closets until I conk out. Turns out these imaginary tours are also handy mnemonic tools, as Vox’s Dean Peterson explains above.
Play Solitaire Alone Together . “It’s Windows 98 solitaire, but you can play with everyone else on the internet.” A little more social than solitaire, but not by much.
The Museum of Time-Based Art . “My idea for this site is to build an exhaustive, authoritative compendium of every art project that uses time as part of the work.”
"There are more things ... likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality."
I can’t remember where I heard about this, but judging by the trailer , Hope by Korean director Na Hong-jin looks pretty good.
Scattered across the museum's permanent collection galleries, "The Spaces Between" brings together more than 40 works from the late conceptual artist.
A new report from the Joan Mitchell Foundation highlights deep structural issues affecting legacy work across the arts.
For New York magazine, Emily Gould writes about her quest to cry again: I Miss My Tears ( archive ). I looked over at my husband, Keith, whose eyes were red, and felt … nothing. Not a clench in my chest, not a pang, not an incipient burning behind my eye sockets. It wasn’t
The Hollywood billionaire also objected to using the term "genocide" to describe Israel's actions in Palestine.
A new publication reflects a growing interest in the lives of the makers behind the civilization’s arts and crafts, long marginalized and erased by mythologized depictions of the ancient world.
Chimpanzees use tools to collect food and deliberately teach other chimps (often their offspring) to use them for ant dipping, algae fishing, and termite fishing.
This week, we honor a Brazilian painter inspired by nature and another who drew on Catholicism, and a Venezuelan photographer who challenged power.
This maddening little web toy on vole.wtf challenges visitors to draw a perfect circle and judges them on how well they do. After dozens of tries with a mouse, I could only manage 92.9% perfection (which looks more like 80% tbh). Then I tried it on a touchscreen and got much
To be a true person is to be entirely oneself in every circumstance, with all the courage and vulnerability this requires. And yet because a person is a confederacy of parts often at odds and sometimes at war with each other, being true is not a pledge to be a paragon of
Abe imagines dreamlike scenes reminiscent of childhood narratives and folk tales. 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 Woodland Creatures Inhabit an
Some advice on giving good advice . “Not every situation warrants advice. Sometimes, the person just wants to gauge a reaction or to share.”
His ambition to capture the full experience of living in the United States had its limits.
I love these black & white photos of Devils Tower by Zac Henderson . A butte of a rare kind of volcanic rock that formed a mile underground 50 million years ago, Devil’s Tower is visible now thanks to erosion of sedimentary rock. The tower features the world’s largest known
Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Parks Conservancy gathers 21 artists for the second biennial Floyd Bennett Field! Public Arts Festival on October 3
Across five decades of work, he always asked: What's my neighborhood, and what does it need?
TIL they can do wing replacements on injured butterflies… just take a look at this repair video .
Wilson's movie debut is primed for absurdity, delving into something that's immanently mundane yet fundamental to the way we live. 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 poets (by which I mean all artists) are finally the only people who know the truth about us,” James Baldwin wrote. “Soldiers don’t. Statesmen don’t. Priests don’t. Union leaders don’t. Only poets.” No matter how slant they may tell it, that truth tells us back to
Engaging read on how the Bugs Bunny cartoon What’s Opera, Doc? was made . “To get the extra work done, Jones and his crew secretly shaved a couple weeks off other, easier films and faked their time cards. It was something they did on occasion.”
The 25 Photos That Changed Fashion Forever . “It didn’t matter if an image was meant as a fashion photograph, so long as the picture later inspired a designer, collection or trend, or it changed how we might think about style.”
"How Jos Leijdekkers turned Sierra Leone into a drug-dealer’s paradise."
Be it movie mythos or nostalgia for a ‘simpler’ time, there’s an undeniable allure in stepping into the American West - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Plus: Protesters call on MoMA to ditch Leon Black, and our exhibition fall guide for the Bay Area.
