Don’t bring a spreadsheet to a fear fight. Change causes fear. And change is all around us. The fear of the unknown. The fear of failure. The fear of uncertainty. Mostly, we’d like safety. And when the world changes, safety feels like it’s in short supply. One reason we have
Some would call the United States of America the mightiest empire the world has ever known. Yet over the past half-century or so, it has shown a strange inability to build domestic infrastructure, at least at the efficiency or on the scale seen elsewhere in the world. (This
Hieronymus Bosch’s bizarre paintings might have looked perfectly ordinary to his contemporaries, argues Stanley Meisler in “The World of Bosch.” Modern viewers may find this very hard to believe. We approach Bosch through layers of Freudian interpretation and Surrealist
“Let me not seem to have lived in vain,” the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe whispered on his deathbed, not realizing that the astronomical tables he was leaving behind would become the portal through which Kepler arrives at the laws of planetary motion; not realizing that the
From a 2014 article on The Dark Power of Fraternities by Caitlin Flanagan, this is one hell of an opening paragraph: One warm spring night in 2011, a young man named Travis Hughes stood on the back deck of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house at Marshall University, in West
It’s time to de-privatize the US government . “The problem is not just that privatization is often inefficient because it adds a nontransparent layer of profiteering on top of government functions. The problem is that government loses basic capacity.”
"We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves that there may be ground enough for friendship."
Curated by Mia Lopez, 16 artists transform everyday objects into bold explorations of Latinx identity. On view in San Antonio from October 16 through March 7, 2027.
In a world skewed toward artifice, the East Williamsburg performance space’s commitment to confronting, rather than escaping, one’s conditions in art feels like a renaissance.
The artist will present an aria from the still-unfinished opera, “Timaeus and The Teacher,” during the festival's closing program.
The artist will present an aria from the still-unfinished opera, “Timaeus and The Teacher,” during the closing program of the 61st Venice Biennale.
Q: “An AI tool with all your passwords or a bear in the woods?” Signal president Meredith Whittaker : “Look, I know social media wants this. I know you guys want this little clip. But what the fuck? What the fuck?? Both are bad!”
Now on view in Austin, the Haas Brothers' mid-career retrospective plunges visitors into their fantasy world. 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
Here are some photos I’ve taken during my time in Tokyo so far. I’ve been posting new stuff more or less daily to Instagram . Somehow I’m already about halfway through my stay. Somehow these images both capture and don’t even come close to capturing my experience
I wonder what the women standing perpetually accused and anonymous might say about the sale of their stolen images.
See 'Radiant Geometries: Vectors of Knowledge from the Indigenous Americas' at the Moody Center for the Arts in Houston. 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
Dispelling fears that last year's blaze pushed artists away for good, this year's edition proved that the Brooklyn neighborhood’s artistic community is as strong as ever.
“‘Digger’ has a lot of haters. Here’s why they’re wrong.” Digger is fascinating — I can’t remember another big movie where public opinion has been so divided (it’s either genius or garbage). I saw it with a friend and he loved it so much he went again.
Anthropic says that, as of Sept ‘26, they were merging 30,000 code changes per day , a 12-fold increase from just four months earlier. The volume increased so much that they wrote their own Git alternative .
Though he is known primarily for his work of fantastical landscapes and mystical woodland creatures, a new retrospective tells the full story.
Meditating on the connection between physical spaces and the feelings and memories bound within them is central to Ann Toebbe's practice. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7
Artist agents are not the panacea we imagine them to be, but AI agents won’t solve all your problems, either. Paddy Johnson breaks it down.
NASA’s JWST recently snapped this image of the Lion Nebula (NGC 2392) . Massive stars undergo supernova explosions at the end of their lives, but these kinds of events are few and far in between. Most of the universe’s stars have lower masses, like the one belonging to NGC
The late novelist and art critic asked Tom Overton to wait to write his biography until after his death. The result is deeply informative, deferential, and perceptive, sometimes lyrically so.
The Case for Quitting: The Surprising Benefits of Opting Out by Lindsay Crouse. “When perseverance turns against us, quitting isn’t just a way out. Often, it’s the first step to something better. A pivot. A break. A chance to go further — or be free.”
"Our reporting has shown how easily people—some with questionable backgrounds—have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hurdles to open a school are so low, could we do it?"
"A rising subculture of kids says they don’t feel entirely human. Here’s what their parents are learning to do with that."
These women once fled ISIS. Now they defuse the landmines the militants left behind in their Yazidi homeland in northern Iraq - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
John Yau on the Whitney’s retrospective of the Pop titan, an interview on Indigenous perseverance with Congress hopeful Jonathan Nez, and art films to see at DOC NYC.
