"The once underground and countercultural 'rave' has fully spread to the mainstream in the form of themed pop-ups and sponsored parties. For newbies, it can be a sanitized gateway into electronic music. For true ravers, it’s more complicated."
The official trailer for Avengers: Doomsday . They’ve gotten (some of) the band back together — perhaps this will be a return to form for Marvel?
"Luceros y Penumbres," designed by Daniel González and engineered by Matthew Reinhart, is an ode to learning and discovery. 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
New lecture series from authoritarianism scholar Timothy Snyder: Hitler and Stalin Today . “The course begins with the colonial background that made totalitarianism possible, and which remains an essential element of our politics now.”
"Dinosaurs have become an asset class for billionaires. And the market is about as orderly and genteel as a starving T. rex."
"The life and death of May Pollard, 16, provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America."
The Cuban dissident artist is exiled to the US and a Homerist reviews Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey.”
Jean Meslier, a rural French priest, argued that religion is designed to produce subjects who will automatically obey - by Nidal Taibi Read on Aeon
It’s a dance between workers, bosses and the market. The most stable quadrant happens when a thoughtful and consistent boss hires the right person, pays them fairly, creates positive working conditions and useful training. In return, the company gets extraordinary performance.
Norfolk is known for its network of rivers and lakes, its stock of medieval churches, and for being the home county of Alan Partridge. Last year, it quite literally unearthed another mark of distinction in the form of an iron age war trumpet. “The bronze trumpet or carnyx is
Not to diminish the nightmare of mortars and shrapnel, but as evidenced by Crow’s Eye Productions’ period-accurate dressing video above, one of the greatest horrors of WWI was wet wool. Decades before the invention of Gore-Tex, Polar Fleece, and other high-performance,
The Lost Joy of Music Piracy . “Still to this day, I’ve never seen such an actively maintained network of knowledge and output, it really sucked me in.”
"Who is good if he knows not who he is? and who knows what he is, if he forgets that things which have been made are perishable, and that it is not possible for one human being to be with another always?"
Historian Joel Christensen reacts to Christopher Nolan’s epic, artists speak candidly about AI, and a forthcoming film adaptation of the Louvre heist.
Artist Lewis Prosser describes himself on Instagram as an “absurdist basket-maker”. His costumes for a project called Making Merrie reflect that self-description. Making Merrie explores the material culture of folk theatre. Inspired by mummers’ plays and masked traditions
Excerpt from a longer (podcast) conversation with John Waters about how he used to work at Mary Oliver’s bookstore in Provincetown . “They had this bookshop where you were allowed to be mean to the customers. It was really fun.”
“This is a tale of a man affected by trauma, but without any sense that it changed him at all.”
No artworks were harmed, but extreme weather shuttered the Lower Manhattan museum for a full weekend.
The dissident artist arrived in Miami after serving five years in a maximum-security prison outside Havana.
Filmmaker Ava DuVernay is making a documentary about the 14th amendment , “spotlighting America’s long running and sometimes bloody battle with itself over who is a citizen and how much freedom they get”.
"Thanks to an assist from his sons, Mike D is set to release “Thank You,” the first new music from a member of the pioneering rap trio in 15 years."
On Japan’s visible evidence of care . “American service providers, private and public, increasingly run like ghost ships. Japanese technology and design seemed in greater service to humans, their journeys, and enterprises.”
57 years ago today, on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon and went for a little walk. For the 18th year in a row, you can watch the original CBS News coverage of Walter Cronkite reporting on the Moon landing and the first Moon walk on a small B&W
The artist’s current series marks a shift in her practice, evoking the life span of a sunflower — from blooming to dying, from sharply defined forms to rivulets of dissolution.
It’s the latest in the battle over the Gelman Santander Collection, a trove of 161 works by artists including Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros that is slated to travel to Spain this fall.
The group exhibition at Gallery Wendi Norris plumbs the dialogue between absence and presence. 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 Presence, Memory,
"Erik Giggleman was an elite Army soldier who went in search of a righteous struggle and found it in Ukraine. As his commitment deepened, his father confronted an excruciating truth: Either the conflict would end, or Erik would die fighting."
The panels installed by the administration in Philadelphia come just six months after Trump ordered the removal of the outdoor exhibition Freedom and Slavery in the Making of a New Nation.
A Mountain West residency for artists, writers, and composers.
I love the 1-bit aesthetic of this story-driven city builder game called GlagStone .