New School Lays Off Nearly 90 People, Dealing Blow to Humanities
The Manhattan institution cut 19 faculty members and 68 staffers amid mounting financial deficits and declining enrollment.
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How to Keep Life from Becoming a Parody of Itself: Simone de Beauvoir on the Art of Growing Older
"In old age we should wish still to have passions strong enough to prevent us turning in on ourselves."
A Shelter in Time: John Berger on the Power of Music
"Songs are like rivers: each follows its own course, yet all flow to the sea, from which everything came."
We Must Protect South American Rock Art
Given the region’s abundant petroglyphs, why are there so few legal protections and only one World Heritage inscription?
Is Betting on the Art Market a Terrible Idea?
The prediction platform Kalshi is launching a dedicated art category amid heightened scrutiny over insider trading in wagers across industries.
Tavares Strachan’s First Monograph Surveys an Encyclopedic Practice
Tavares Strachan is one of the leading conceptual artists working today, and his first monograph is out this month from Phaidon. 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
In Los Angeles, 70 Artists Transform a Vacant Hospital into a Sprawling Art Experience
Dubbed the 'Hospital of Emotions,' the pop-up exhibition converts 80 rooms into surreal installations. 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 In Los
Portrait of a Papal Artist
In Rome, an exhibition explores Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s relationship to his most powerful patron, Pope Urban VIII.
Divination, Mark Making, Boxing, & Drawing: "Tracey Rose" at Ruby City
Opening June 6 in San Antonio, Texas, “Tracey Rose” offers viewers an intimate look at the artist’s groundbreaking multidisciplinary practice including performance and drawings.
Summer Fridays, Open Thread
I’m observing summer Fridays here at KDO again this year, which means I (mostly) won’t be posting here on Fridays. If past years are any guide, this doesn’t actually have too much of an effect on how much I work or post…more of a redistribution of time & effort. But it’s nice
Illustrated break-downs of how common objects work ....
Illustrated break-downs of how common objects work . Currently featuring a mechanical pencil, PEZ dispenser, retractable pen, and Zippo lighter.
The Inside Story of the Athens Music Scene
"How did the college football town spawn the B-52s, R.E.M., and Widespread Panic, to name just a few? The maestros and misfits who led Athens’s rise to one of the world's most influential and improbable music towns tell all."
Mass Cuts at Pace Gallery
The mega gallery cuts 100 workers and artists. Plus, a terrible movie about Kate Moss and Lucian Freud, and honoring the giant behind “Persepolis.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Recommending notable stories by Wyatt Williams, John Leland, Jonathan Weiner, Suzy Hansen, and Max Ufberg.
How to teach marketing
Trick title. There are at least three kinds of “marketing” we ought to be teaching: Most organized marketing instruction is about the first or second, with some online courses teaching hustle and hype, which I don’t count as marketing. My best work is about the third kind, the
What Happens When the Author Directs the Movie: How Robert Rodriguez Recruited Frank Miller to Co-Direct Sin City
In the nineteen-nineties, Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez first collaborated on a movie. No, it wasn’t From Dusk Till Dawn, the Rodriguez-directed crime-picture-turned-horror-comedy in which Tarantino plays George Clooney’s psychotic brother. It was an anthology picture