If You Take the Weasel Job Then You Must Be the Weasel . “Bilton reveals himself as a goon, a soft-peddler, a PR man, an obfuscator; the opposite of everything that 60 Minutes is supposed to be”.
Re the Patagonia vs. Pattie Gonia case : the company should sponsor her environmental efforts and part of that is a trademark agreement where each side compromises a little bit; Pattie can keep doing her thing and Patagonia is seen as an ally again.
News about Hilde Lynn Helphenstein’s sudden death shocked the art world.
Soft eyes, deep listening, and other ways to extend human perception beyond our limits.
Paul McGowan makes stereos. To paraphrase his insight: The musicality isn’t a feature you add to an amplifier. It’s what’s left when you stop ruining it. To expand: Customer delight isn’t something we add to our projects. It’s what’s left if we don’t ruin it. Curiosity isn’t
References to Islam in major media can make it sound monolithic and eternal. But it’s actually a much younger and less unified phenomenon than many of us imagine, especially if we happen to live outside the Middle East. As a religion, it dates back “only” to the seventh
It’s almost 35 years ago now that Nirvana’s video for “Smells Like Teen Spirit” debuted on MTV’s 120 Minutes and, for better or worse, inaugurated the grunge era. The video (below) arrived as a shock and a thrill to a generation too young to remember punk and sick of the steady
It may be that consciousness evolved to sieve the relevant from the incomprehensible allness of all there is, to parse the world into concepts and find an organizing principle for the chaos of them. Our cognitive inheritance is a restless yearning to fathom how things cohere
The curator and commentator built a following for her online persona and satirical memes of the art world.
"In broaching the possibility of being, in some way, against self-criticism, we have to imagine a world in which celebration is less suspect than criticism."
Why Wildfire Experts Are So Worried About This Year’s Fire Season . “Key environmental indicators show that the nation is a tinderbox, gripped by widespread drought and with a light snowpack in the mountains.”
New site markers installed in the Hudson River Valley city last month have been decried as “bland,” “ugly,” and “sterile slop.”
Plus a book about an infamous art trafficker, an Anni Albers bio, and more.
She puts her own spin on autobiography, exceeding her own cult status as a monastic artist.
Ali Eyal and David Horvitz satirize America’s oil war in an installation at a Chevron gas station on Venice Boulevard.
Visitors can hop on the teeter-totter and adjust the ecological soundscape of "There, Now, Here." 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 An Interactive
I’ve probably featured this before but always worth a re-up: “ A Books Unbanned library card gives teens across the United States free digital access to ebooks and digital resources, including banned and challenged books — no matter where they live.”
We must cultivate spaces with the capacity to hold another kind of cultural experience that forges a reintegration of art and life.
The original Star Wars movie was a mashup. George Lucas and his collaborators pulled from everywhere: westerns, samurai movies, Flash Gordon, and a 1955 war film called The Dam Busters. This video shows just how closely the attack on the Death Star mirrors a scene from The Dam
“Hackers say that they used Meta’s AI support chatbot to break into a host of high-profile Instagram profiles by asking the support bot to change the email address associated with the target account.” And the bot just went ahead and did it .
In Post-War Japan, the US Used Quiz Culture to Help Democratize the Country . TV quiz shows “normalized participation, merit-based competition, and equal opportunity — values that contrasted sharply with the hierarchical structures [of] prewar Japan”.
Timur Fatkullin is a Ukrainian flying ace who uses his acrobatic flying skills honed before the war to shoot down Russian drones . When I fly close to the target, I can’t engage because there’s houses or infrastructure underneath. So we keep flying, keeping it in the
Power Lines: Maps That Shaped the Way We See the World . “A collection of the greatest political maps in history and how these images have an unmatched power to influence our thinking — and our world.”
“ Serena Williams has announced her sensational return to professional tennis at 44 years old next week at the Queen’s Club in London.” Yessss.
Residencies, fellowships, grants, and open calls from the VH Award, Bennett Prize, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers.
For his project Windows , Dave Krugman took photos of hundreds of NYC apartment windows at night and stitched them together into ever-shifting typologies. What’s going on in each of those apartments? Tags: Dave Krugman · NYC · photography
A new exhibition at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art surveys the artist's art-everywhere approach. 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 ‘Keith
The golden hour hues of the West Coast's legendary sunsets spurred Hubbard's reacquaintance with the camera. 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