A recently unearthed conversation with Anthony Bourdain from 2005 . “We discuss Tony’s preferred sucker-punch etiquette, his loyalty to cigarettes & the Chateau Marmont, ayahuasca in Peru, and the talk show he dreamed up with Christopher Walken in mind.”
The exhibition opens at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University on August 27. 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 ‘Turn the Volume Up!’ Highlights
The museum is suing the current owners of "Femme dans un fauteuil" (1918), which resurfaced decades after it was stolen from the University of Pittsburgh.
Ok so when you woke up this morning, you probably didn’t expect to watch a 20-minute video about a trebuchet — but to be fair, I didn’t either. But Tom Stanton’s build of a fully mechanical trebuchet that propels a tiny plastic pellet faster than the speed of sound (complete
Craig Mod wrote about his recent adventures using LLMs: A Swarm of Blood Robots . “I now have a comprehensive family tree, naming the very boats my Italian and Polish ancestors came over on in the late 1800s, the villages a few came from…”
"For the children of south Mull, secondary school means leaving home age eleven. Their parents' silence was never consent."
Formerly attributed to the Brueghel family, the painting was found in 2022 by a curator at the National Museum of Norway.
“Draw any shape and hear it as a drum.” Eigendrum : a drum simulator where you can change the shape of the drum to see how it affects the sound it makes.
"A Tennessee native and longtime film projectionist who first started working in Imax theaters in the ’90s, Caldwell has become integral to Imax’s 70-mm. rollouts even as he considers himself mostly retired."
G.P.S. and the Lost Art of Getting Lost . “G.P.S. has also led us to outsource existential skills: locating yourself in space, parsing out your surroundings, staying calm when you don’t know where you are. Do we lose something when we no longer get lost?”
Some of the most storied problems in mathematics, those posed by Paul Erdős, are being solved by LLMs .
"These photographs don’t just capture what’s beneath the surface; they surface the stories our planet most needs us to hear," says founder and director Will Harrison. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts
Twenty years ago, United States senator Ted Stevens drew long-lasting online ridicule by describing the internet as “a series of tubes.” While some commentators noted that the analogy wasn’t quite as outlandish as it seemed, most reacted with nothing more than amused
"A Chinese man hired a Florida surrogate, then didn’t pick up his kids, sparking a custody battle that could upend the industry."
"An interview with the author of 'Strangers to Ourselves'—and now, 'You Won’t Get Free of It.'"
After half a century in the making, an observatory in New Mexico lets viewers peer 13,000 years into the future and the past - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Elvira Dyangani Ose is named artistic director of the Cape Town museum, following in the late Koyo Kouoh’s footsteps.
In a bid for spiritual renewal, I made a pilgrimage to Islam’s holy city. Almost everything I expected to see was gone - by Azania Imtiaz Patel Read on Aeon
Seven stories that celebrate the surprising influence of a humble dessert.
Is it helping? You wouldn’t stay by passively if someone else was beating you up. Perhaps we shouldn’t accept it when we do it.
Each time I sit through the end credits of a film, I think about how weird auteur theory is—that a work of cinema can be primarily thought of as the singular vision of the director. Typical examples come from artier fare than the usual Hollywood blockbuster in which crews of
"The wind is my nemesis!" says Jennifer Latour. 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 Jennifer Latour Preserves Ephemeral Beauty in Her Otherworldly
Lovely short video about artist Jas Knight , who is a participant in the Met Museum’s Copyist Program : The Copyist Program offers time and space for artists to develop their own interpretation of an artwork through intimate study in the Museum’s galleries. Copyists have
The nonprofit's co-founder, photographer Hal Fischer, told Hyperallergic that neither he nor anyone he knew “got advance warning that this was in the wind.”
Here’s how Rocky’s musical language from the Project Hail Mary movie was created . The filmmakers didn’t “want it to feel like a human language because he’s supposed to be really more musically communicating”.
The new documentary follows three humanitarian physicians as they grapple with the horrors of the US-funded genocide in Gaza.
“Several Eternities” feels overly careful and unable to combust as fully as it could have.
I’m Done Using AI . “It made me lazy. It made me stop caring. It made me a worse programmer. It made me depressed. Because I stopped doing the hard work, I stopped learning, I stopped growing, I stopped being the one making the software.”
The Spanish curator will steer the South African institution after the untimely loss of its late leader.
This week, we honor the founding museum director, an artist who shaped PAFA, and a painter of transience.
Why weren’t bicycles invented sooner? “Why was no one…even considering the question of human-powered vehicles until the 1400s? Why weren’t there bicycle mechanics in the 1300s, when there were clockmakers, or at least by the 1500s, when we had watches?”