To draw attention to the millions of girls who cannot afford period products, the MENstruation Foundation ran a unique advertisement in three major South African newspapers. Readers of The Star, The Mercury and Cape Times opened their newspapers this week to find something
The gallery-sized installation at the Institute for Contemporary Art combines Greek mythology with Civil War history to examine white supremacy and hegemonic power.
Uncovered , a site for judging books by their first pages. “No cover. No bestseller sticker, no celebrity book club, no BookTok trend. You read the opening of a real book, blind, and answer the only question that matters: would you keep reading?”
The Resonant Computing Manifesto . “We can now build technology that adaptively shapes itself in service of our individual and collective aspirations. We can build resonant environments that bring out the best in every human who inhabits them.”
"When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed by the U.S. government, they left behind two sons, ages 6 and 10. All these years later, Robby and Michael are still trying to make sense of what happened."
Humans' futile control of time forms the basis of a new suite of works in Padeu's solo show at Larkin Durey. 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 Cocoa
What would a rainbow look like if we had two suns (like on Tatooine)?
In an ingenious restoration project, the humble oyster shell is transformed into a powerful tool to halt coastal erosion - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Benjamin Moser on a new biography of the Hudson River painter, allegations against Cape Town’s SMAC Gallery, and more.
While Vienna’s coffeehouses bred modernism, in Belgrade’s kafanas grew conspiracy and rage. Their clash consumed Europe - by Anton Cebalo Read on Aeon
The Kerrs were devoted to one another and to their faith. But when one of their own rejected modern medicine, they faced a dire question: What if her children ever needed a doctor to save their lives?
The right words in the right sequence create information. Ideas that change our world. The first kind of word salad allows the writer to hide. Fancy words, carefully juxtaposed, saying nothing. This can serve a valuable function for politicians, academics and bosses–but there’s
Despite having been composed about two and a half millennia before the invention of cinema, Homer’s Odyssey has offered tempting material to generation after generation of filmmakers. Part of the appeal is, of course, the work’s age, which obviates the need for potentially
Tucked in the afterward of the second, 1982 edition of Hubert Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow’s Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics, we find an important, but little-known essay by Foucault himself titled “The Subject and Power.” Here, the French theorist offers
A few highlights from a collection of lovely woodblock-printed sugoroku game boards from Japan . “The gameboards use stories and maps to teach children history and geography.”
Nicholas Rougeux, whose work I have featured here before , has published a complete digital edition of William Jardine’s 40-volume book series on natural history published in the early-to-mid 19th-century. As part of the project, Rougeux restored each of the more than 1300
An artist who left SMAC Gallery late last year took to social media with claims of delayed payments and missing works.
Dan Werb on the understated intelligence of the animals that share our cities.
“I am playing with the building blocks of painting,” the artist told me at his studio in Woodstock, where he experiments with gestural compositions and monumental body prints.
This week, we honor a figurative sculptor, a political cartoonist who revolutionized the form, and a prolific poet and writer.
As Longaberger's iconic headquarters sit empty, the baskets survive as artifacts of a national identity that commodified craft and packaged settler colonialism as heritage.
“Billionaires could fund cures for cancer — so why are they funding glasses for perverts instead?" asked the protest group Everyone Hates Elon.
Legibility of effort in the LLM age . “What software (and writing, to an extent) is missing now is legibility of effort - the ability to tell at a glance whether something took a human meaningful work.”
Few things in our culture are more wounding than the concept of healing — as if the pains and losses that we suffer are an illness, a malfunction of the psyche to be cut out like a tumor, rather than a natural function of being alive, of feeling life deeply and living it fully.
Between 2010 and 2011, Marlow documented all 42 Anglican cathedrals across the breadth and length of England. 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 See
"Our neurons must be used ... not only to know but also to transform knowledge; not only to experience but also to construct."
These have to be some of the most remarkable sports photos of all time: a 20-year-old Lionel Messi bathing a five-month-old Lamine Yamal. Two of the best football players in the world, one a Barcelona legend and another a Barca legend in the making. Both came up through the
Ted Gioia : “Works like the Odyssey are ritualistic and trance-inducing. They are propelled by music and driven by rhythm. They cross a border beyond literature, and enter something more transcendent and metaphysical.”
Good interview with Craig Mod about how he uses LLMs : “using AI as a research assistant, why he keeps a tech-free zone in the mornings for deep thinking, and why he’s resisting the pull of the ‘mainlining’ AI era”.