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A Macro Journey Underwater Reveals the Radiant Geometries of Coral
Filmmaker Sandro Bocci brings us up close with coral reefs and their striking array of color, texture, and pattern. 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
They Stopped 57 Shootings. Everyone Was Just Fired. “A...
They Stopped 57 Shootings. Everyone Was Just Fired. “A program called Peace Orlando hired neighborhood residents closest to the violence…who could see a shooting coming and talk people down.” It worked…and then the program was shut down.
Sprout is planning to sell replacement motherboards for...
Sprout is planning to sell replacement motherboards for certain iPods . “Sprout only replaces the motherboard and uses your iPod’s original parts. No soldering required, and fully reversible.” Bluetooth, WiFi, 500K songs, USB-C, even streaming.
The Proponents of “Dark Nutrition” Think Everything You Know About Food Is Wrong
"More Americans are rejecting everything they’ve been taught about food."
How Astronomers and Art Historians Are Working Together to Identify the Inspiration Behind Famous Works of Art
Researchers study paintings and literature to uncover untold history of the works, sometimes finding themselves trying to discern celestial bodies from dust
The Amarna letters
Petty disputes, pleas for help and requests for gold – explore letters sent to Egyptian pharaohs more than 3,000 years ago - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Remembering Ursula von Rydingsvard
The monumental sculptor dies at 84; plus, how an artist snuck his own work into The Met, and a dispute over watercolors of Roma victims of the Holocaust.
Be careful what you wish for
At a recent Q&A, a small businessperson asked how to get clients to be more alike, willing to engage in systemic work that would be easier to deliver and offer a simpler path to getting the job done. Of course, once there’s a manual, anyone can do the work, and anyone will. It
Inside the Making of the Sagrada Família, Barcelona’s 144-Year Megaproject
To get a sense of Sagrada Família’s popularity with YouTubers, you have only to take a look at the related Open Culture posts linked below. As will hardly escape your attention, most subjects that consistently draw the attention of the GoPro class are not nineteenth-century
The Vibrant Color Wheels Designed by Goethe, Newton & Other Theorists of Color (1665–1810)
Maybe it’s the cloistered headiness of Rene Descartes, or the rigorous austerity of Isaac Newton; maybe it’s all the leathern breeches, gray waistcoats, sallow faces, and powdered wigs… but we tend not to associate Enlightenment Europe with an explosion of color theory. Yet
What It Takes to Be Free
We spend our lives trying to find our power and our freedom. It is not easy: We live in a culture that has distorted the meaning and measure of power, confusing visibility with value, status with substance, attention with love; we live in a universe where free will may be an
Have We Confused Having Good Taste With Being Creative?
From 713 Magazine on Instagram : In a world where cultural knowledge has become its own form of social currency, knowing the right designers, listening to the right music, and recognizing the right references can make someone appear just as creative as the people actually
The Artsiest Halloween Party in Town
Hyperallergic’s spirited soirée, a bone to pick with “Costume Art” at The Met, and what’s a woman artist’s “prime” in the art world?
10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This November
Yuntao Xu’s art show in a gas station, LA’s first gallery run for and by Black artists, iris yirei hu’s reliquaries for a dream, and April Bey’s alien tapestries of human life.
Artist Sneaks His Work Into the Met Museum
David Mitlaski says his oil pastel painting of the Met Gala captures “A-list celebrities prancing, while the world outside the museum gates is collapsing.”
How Jim Morrison Surmounted Tragedy and Skied Down Everest
"The mountaineer and his partner, Hilaree Nelson, planned a first-ever descent. After her death, he pushed on."
“Local Wikipedia is Wikipedia, but only for things a half...
“ Local Wikipedia is Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you.” There is also Walkipedia .
How Mexican Photographers Made a Nation
A show at the Getty demonstrates the way modernist approaches to photography shifted the visual culture of Mexico in the 20th century.
John Oliver on the Republican Party and the Far Right...
John Oliver on the Republican Party and the Far Right (redundant).
In Battle Over Auschwitz Watercolors, Roma Victims Are Getting Left Behind
As the legal dispute over the paintings’ ownership continues, no one seems to be asking: What were their names? Who may still be grieving their deaths? What decision would best honor them?
Playfully Vibrant Abstract Murals by Zebu Enliven Urban Walls
The Berlin-based duo draw on their background in illustration and graphic design to create eye-popping compositions. 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
Once Upon a Time in Harlem
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural and intellectual movement of African-American artists in the 1920s and 30s. In 1972, filmmaker William Greaves threw a party in Duke Ellington’s apartment for some surviving members of the movement and recorded the whole thing. The footage
The Ledger and the Blade
"The 1993 stabbing of Monica Seles and our quest for optimization."
Tom Hegen’s ‘The Mineral Age’ Documents the Indelible Effects of the Green Transition
There's no question we need to move away from fossil fuels. But who bears the cost of the green transition? 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 Tom
Apple Music’s 404 page features a fully functional iPod...
Apple Music’s 404 page features a fully functional iPod simulator.
Sylvia Plath on Living with the Darkness and Making Art from the Barely Bearable Lightness of Being
"One has to shut off that nagging part of the mind and go on without it with bravo and philosophy."
Short video teasing an new collab between Daft Punk and...
Short video teasing an new collab between Daft Punk and Lego , including a forthcoming Lego set based on this fan-submitted entry .
Ursula von Rydingsvard, Who Sculpted Monuments of Cedar, Dies at 84
"She was like the sun. She was this force that pulled people in and kept them orbiting around her," said her studio manager.
Timeless Totemic Figures by Izumi Kato Coexist in an Otherworldly Aquatic Realm
The artist's eponymous solo exhibition opens tomorrow at Perrotin in New York. 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 Timeless Totemic Figures by Izumi
The American Divide on Empathy
PRRI’s 2026 American Values Survey reveals some, uh, interesting views on whether Americans think empathy is a good thing or not. Those respondents unaffiliated with a religion were much more inclined to think that empathy is “a foundational moral value that helps build a
Studying Contemporary Art at Sotheby's Institute
Where critical thinking meets contemporary practice across key art world capitals.
Layli Long Soldier’s Poetic Lifeblood
I spoke to the poet, who is my longtime friend and colleague, about her new book, the threads connecting poetry and visual art, and how Lakota philosophy suffuses her work.
