The excellent Poster House museum in NYC currently has an exhibition up of posters by Peter Strausfeld . Between 1947 and 1980, Peter Strausfeld, a German refugee interned on the Isle of Man during World War II, created unique, compelling posters for London’s Academy
Paul Ford on AI and the Infinite Software Era . “All of the people I love hate this stuff, and all the people I hate love it. And yet, likely because of the same personality flaws that drew me to technology in the first place, I am annoyingly excited.”
Her choreography told stories in new ways and her collaborations with costume and stage designers changed the aesthetic of the art. Now, her dance company marks its first century
Current is an interesting new RSS reader that doesn’t function like an email inbox . “There is no count because counting was the problem.”
"After ICE raids, tear gassing protestors, and two killings, DHS 'border czar' Tom Homan arrived in the Twin Cities to announce a winding down of immigration enforcement. But the battle has merely moved from the streets to the underground, and the city remains under siege."
It is hard to know why we are here, what we can make of the transience we can do nothing about, how we can fill every borrowed atom of matter with meaning. It is hard not to take for givens the answers handed down to us by our culture, our parents, our peers, our heroes. There
Where the hard edge of physics meets the vulnerable metaphysics of the human heart.
"Solitude is not chosen, any more than destiny is chosen. Solitude comes to us if we have within us the magic stone that attracts destiny."
The British Museum in hot water over using "Canaan" instead of Palestine in labels, Ocean Vuong's photography, Lunar New Year celebrations in NYC, and Seph Rodney on the need for art that gives us an "elsewhere to imagine."
"Pantone’s 2026 Color of the Year is selling us a white fantasy."
An AI like Claude is actually a pretty good fortune cookie. You can ask a simple question and get a simple answer, sometimes a profound one. But this is a waste of the tool’s potential. The AI is patient. It’s capable of remembering things over time. And it will persist if you
The expression “Don’t quit your day job” is often used as an insult, implying that the recipient’s creative skills aren’t up to attracting a career-supporting audience. But it can also be practical advice in certain cases, especially those of artists possessed of a sensibility
A simple sausage from Germany overtook ballparks and backyards to become the quintessential hand-held meal that is decidedly all-American
“Throughout U.S. history, our military has been used not for moral purposes but to expand economic, political, and military power,” says a cartoon Howard Zinn in Mike Konopacki’s 273-page comic book A People’s History of American Empire. Written with Zinn and historian Paul
The institution acknowledged altering some texts to refer to Canaan, an ancient name for the region, but said the word “Palestine” still appears elsewhere.
A New Winter is a project from Colombian-American photographer Sofia Jaramillo that seeks to This project revisits the early depictions of skiing, which often portrayed Eurocentric ideals and a narrow vision of who belongs on the slopes. By reimagining the first images of
Sarula Bao created a fabric horse in the style of “bu zha,” an embroidery art form, for New York nonprofit Think!Chinatown’s annual Lantern Residency.
The Philadelphia display was dismantled last month after federal directives to remove negative representations of US history on public sites.
An exhibition by queer artists from the diaspora, what we need from NYC’s culture commissioner, Lunar New Year events around the city, and more.
Peter Li captures the stupefying architecture of some of Europe's most striking sanctuaries. 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 Striking Photos by
The goal of the Trump Action Tracker is to “document how the trajectory of Trump’s presidency is aligned with the authoritarian playbook”.
Black, who owns the art book publisher, has come under increased scrutiny over gruesome accusations detailed in the latest trove of Epstein files.
I think I’d heard the term “k-shaped economy” somewhere before but didn’t really know what it meant until I watched this video : American Airlines is changing the layout of some of their aircraft to add 31 first class and premium seats while cutting out 73 economy seats. This
The best work in the Bronx Museum’s biennial indicates aspirations beyond this time and place.
Why AI Writing Is So Generic, Boring, and Dangerous: Semantic Ablation . “The AI identifies high-entropy clusters — the precise points where unique insights…reside — and systematically replaces them with the most probable, generic token sequences.”
"The vision of solarpunk: joining nature with technology in vibrantly inclusive ways to create a world that truly blooms."
Jesse Jackson on Sesame Street in 1971 doing a call-and-response with the kids of the poem I Am - Somebody .
The 19 richest Americans hold more than 2% of the total US holdhold wealth. That figure has roughly doubled in the past 5-6 years. “The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering.”
In 1964, legendary jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie ran for President as a write-in candidate . Some of the more interesting details about his campaign: If elected, he’d rename the White House to the Blues House. Running mate was slated to be Phyllis Diller. “She seems to have
Ski Jumping Pairs is my favorite Winter Olympics event. (Video by Riichiro Mashima.)
One might assume that his photography is the nepo baby of his writing, but this is genuinely a great show.
From designer Beth Mathews, a free “Private Property! No ICE” sign you can print out for your shop or restaurant.
"Tenderness is the most modest form of love. It is the kind of love that does not appear in the scriptures or the gospels, no one swears by it, no one cites it... It appears wherever we take a close and careful look at another being, at something that is not our 'self.’"