Elvira Dyangani Ose to Succeed Koyo Kouoh at Zeitz MOCAA
The Spanish curator will steer the South African institution after the untimely loss of its late leader.
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Remembering Christian Bernard, Al Gury, and Hermione Carline
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...
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?”
Death Cab for Cutie’s Tiny Desk Concert
Death Cab for Cutie rolled into the NPR offices for a Tiny Desk Concert , which featured two new songs from their current album and some oldies: Title and Registration and Soul Meets Body. Gibbard noted: I’m starting to realize that some of our earlier records came out a
Suzanne Jongmans Recycles Everyday Materials for Elegant Renaissance-Style Portraits
Jongmans' works look to the past but are exquisitely contemporary, prompting us to consider the meaning of value. 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
Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting...
Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same . “A recommender that’s a mediocre predictor of what you’d love in a rich, diverse world becomes an excellent predictor of what you’ll click in the impoverished one it creates.”
Get Up Close to the Sun in the Highest Resolution Image Ever Captured
The U.S. National Science Foundation’s powerful Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope captured details smaller than 12 miles across. 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.
A Collection of Eclipse Glasses (1793-2019)
Oh wow, Williams College’s Hopkins Observatory has a huge collection of eclipse glasses & viewers (and other eclipse ephemera), some of them dating back to 1793. Here are a few of my favorites: (via present & correct ) Tags: design · eclipses
The Most Controversial Ancient Philosophy: Epicureanism
Over the years, you’ve probably heard at least a few people casually describe themselves as Epicureans. As used today, the label can refer to as little as enjoying the occasional expensive restaurant meal. The bar was a bit higher in the second century, as explained by
Stories that the authors of the Bible borrowed from...
Stories that the authors of the Bible borrowed from other cultures and religions , including the flood myth, the Garden of Eden, etc. I learned about these in a religion & mythology class in college, which cemented my atheism.
Meet This Year’s Joan Mitchell Fellows
15 artists won this year’s prize. Plus, an interview with the founder of BlackStar Film Festival, layoffs at the San Diego Museum of Art, and more.
Bouncy brothers
Two brothers struggle to keep a bouncy house business afloat in this nuanced portrait of family and the pursuit of success - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
15 Artists Named 2026 Joan Mitchell Fellows
Each recipient will receive $60,000 in unrestricted funding distributed over five years, in the spirit of the namesake abstract painter’s commitment to “aid and assist” artists.
The magic of a two-year waitlist
The Decware triode amp is the best low-power stereo amp I’ve ever heard. And it’s a bargain. If you have the right speakers, it’s an extraordinary device. And there’s a two-year waitlist. 2000 people, 11 pages long. This approach to timing and production serves all the people
Watch Stewart Brand’s 6‑Part Series How Buildings Learn, With Music by Brian Eno
Stewart Brand came onto the cultural scene during the 1960s, helping to stage the Acid Tests made famous by Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, and later launching the influential Whole Earth Catalog (something Steve Jobs described as “Google in paperback form, 35 years before
“Widely regarded as the most complicated board...
“Widely regarded as the most complicated board game ever made , The Campaign for North Africa tries to simulate WW2’s North African theater in as granular fashion as possible…” 1500 hours to finish the game — that’s 1h20m every day for 3 years.
Good sentence : “The market’s most lavish...
Good sentence : “The market’s most lavish rewards do not go to its most productive participants, but rather, to those participants who have the good fortune to emerge from the luckiest of orifices.”
Art Dispatches From “Habibi City”
Alan Michelson’s oyster-shaped public artwork on Governors Island, a fragment of The Odyssey at The Met, and Simone Forti talking about her days in Yoko Ono’s Manhattan loft.
10 Photo Books to Read This Month
Hal Fischer’s archive of queer fashion, Sophie Rivera’s portraits of Nuyorican communities, Rania Matar’s love letter to Lebanon, and more new titles to check out from photo book publishers.
J.R.R. Tolkien on Fairy Tales, Language, the Psychology of Fantasy, and Why There’s No Such Thing as Writing “For Children”
"Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else (make something new), may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds."
San Diego Museum of Art Lays Off 11 Workers
The cuts impacted employees in departments including programs, development, exhibitions, and operations as the institution cited financial difficulties.
Russia Has Damaged or Destroyed Over 4,500 Cultural Sites in Ukraine
The National Art Museum of Ukraine and the Odesa National Fine Arts Museum are among the 141 museums and galleries affected.
