Ok, we’re gonna go a little old school today. I’m talking the late 1990s and early 2000s, back before permalinks (sorry), RSS, and social media turned blog posts & tweets into their own little discrete units packaged to be easily passed around and things were less homogeneous.
"America’s elders need more places to live, but even in liberal enclaves that recognize the problem, developers are facing the fiercest foes of all: America’s elders."
'My father designed two of the houses I grew up in. Then he died. I’m still untangling where his taste ends and mine begins."
The superstar Japanese artist passed away in a Tokyo hospital, an exhibition brings treasures from the ancient city to the US, ex-Pussy Riot member says Russia recruited her to spy, and more.
How Madonna, Grace Jones, Joan Jett, Whitney Houston, and their contemporaries broke the stodgy musical mold of the '60s and '70s to inspire generations of women to pick up an instrument and learn to play music.
When it was published in the United States in 1998, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was retitled Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. The jokes about the American reading public’s apparent allergy to the very word philosopher write themselves, but the change was also
It’s not up to us to fix the world all by ourselves. But we vote with our attention and our dollars. If we’re attracted to the wrong stuff like moths to a flame, don’t be surprised when folks spend time building new fires. Each of us knows that we’re motivated by positive
A number of futurists, philosophers, and technophiles believe we are approaching what they call the “singularity”: a point in time when smart machines become much smarter, stronger, and faster than their creators, and then become self-conscious. Whatever the chance of this
She channeled her mental health struggles into kaleidoscopic artworks that enamored the world, rendering her an icon closer to a spiritual leader than a contemporary artist.
A roadmap to the fulfilled belonging on the other side of "the great aloneness which knows not what is far and what is near, nor what is small nor great."
In early 1934, a twenty-four-year-old graduate student at Columbia Teachers College took an internship teaching drama and producing student plays at PS 24 in Harlem. Among her young charges at that “dreadful ancient New York schoolhouse,” as she would later recall, was a
"What is never discussed in all of this hand-wringing is the fact that those dogs and their owners likely far predate the people riding their bikes here."
For Xanthe Burdett, the boundary between humans and nature is thin, malleable, and always in flux. 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 Lush Foliage
Photographer Justin Thomas accused the artist of copyright infringement on his 1995 photograph of British musicians Liam and Noel Gallagher.
Margarita Konovalova, who performed in the collective under the alias Rita Flores, fled Russia earlier this month with the help of her lawyer.
Over 160 artifacts from the National Archaeological Museum of Naples are headed to the Dallas Museum of Art in December.
After growing up in poverty, she became famous for her legendary songs, big heart and larger-than-life style. But the iconic musician insisted that "the songs lead to everything else"