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“Jeffrey Epstein Walk of Shame” Pops Up in DC
The guerrilla artwork includes “stars” for MoMA trustee Leon Black, arts patron Les Wexner, and over a dozen other individuals mentioned in the Epstein files.
Petrit Halilaj’s Opera of Kosovan Memory and Myth
Through his fantastical vignettes, Halilaj suggests curiosity about others as a way to neutralize the forces that lead to difference-based violence.
Lots of great defecation physics here: “ 66 percent...
Lots of great defecation physics here: “ 66 percent of animals take between 5 and 19 seconds to defecate. It’s a…small range, given that elephant feces have a volume of 20 liters, nearly a thousand times more than a dog’s, at 10 milliliters .”
Buckle Up for Bumpier Skies
"With climate change, the skies are becoming more turbulent. Can today’s planes still keep us safe?"
Forget About Getting Your AI Art Copyrighted
The US Supreme Court declines to hear a years-long case on the matter, leaving one famous AI art crusader out in the cold.
The New School Cancelled Their Class on Soccer and World...
The New School Cancelled Their Class on Soccer and World Politics. We Are Going To Teach it Anyway. Enrollment is now open; the class will deal with questions like “Which regimes are using this tournament to launder their reputations?”
SETI might be missing alien signals because...
SETI might be missing alien signals because “stellar ‘space weather’ may blur ultra-narrow radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations before they leave their home star systems”. SETI usually looks for “extremely sharp frequency spikes”.
Doris Lessing on How to Read a Book and How to Read the World
Born in Iran and raised in Zimbabwe, Doris Lessing (October 22, 1919–November 17, 2013) was fourteen when she dropped out of school and eighty-eight when she won the Nobel Prize for smelting language into keys to “the prisons we choose to live inside.” Having lived in writing
Teacher v Chatbot: My Journey Into the Classroom in the Age Of AI
"Throwing AI into the mix felt like downing a coffee in the middle of a panic attack."
Virginia Woolf on Love
“I think we moderns lack love,” Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882–March 28, 1941) diagnosed us in the first year of our deadliest war. The paradox is that when we lack something long enough, we forget what it looks like, what it means, how to recognize it when it comes along.
Octavia Butler on Change and the Meaning of God
On change, the measure of intelligence, the courage to take responsibility for our own lives.
“For the Colonel, It Was Finger-Lickin’ Bad”
Here’s a gem from the archive of the NY Times. One day in September 1976, NY Times food critic Mimi Sheraton and Colonel Harland Sanders stopped into a Manhattan Kentucky Fried Chicken . The Colonel, then estranged from the company he founded, strolled into the kitchen after
The Met Introduces High-Definition 3D Scans of Dozens of...
The Met Introduces High-Definition 3D Scans of Dozens of Art Historical Objects , including Egyptian temples , Greek oil flasks , van Gogh paintings , and cuneiform tablets .
‘Lettres Décoratives’ Is a Celebration of Fin de Siècle Sign Painters’ Vibrant Letterforms
The book from Letterform Archive celebrates the vivacity of French sign painting from the 19th and early 20th centuries. 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
“If measles-mumps-rubella vaccination rates decline...
“If measles-mumps-rubella vaccination rates decline 1% annually for the next five years, associated medical and societal costs could reach $1.5 billion .” (That 1% is a conservative estimate “given current policy and coverage trajectory”.)
Grant Garmezy Molds a Full-Size Dakotaraptor from Molten Glass
Thought to have been feathered, the Dakotaraptor's powerful legs and "sickle claw" gave it an advantage some 66 million years ago. 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
Carol Bove’s Metal Textiles
Was the artist's Guggenheim survey a success? What's so "weird" about this year's Whitney Biennial? And other questions.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
In this edition: Eschatolgy, Texas style; dancing like nobody’s watching; the men, they myths, the legends; monumental responses; and notes fit for a King.
Savage care
Neat ethical principles have nothing to say to doctors like me, faced with the brutal, bloody compromises of hospital life - by Ronald W Dworkin Read on Aeon
Tight rope standing
It’s much easier to walk a tight rope than it is to simply stand in place. Forward momentum creates stability.
That’s what studies are for
“Are you sure it’s going to work?” That’s the wrong question to consider when proposing a study. It’s also not helpful to say, “It’s unlikely to solve the problem.” All the likely approaches have already been tried. The useful steps are: Our fear of failure is real. It’s often
Roman Statues Weren’t White; They Were Once Painted in Vivid, Bright Colors
The idea of the classical period—the time of ancient Greece and Rome—as an elegantly unified collection of superior aesthetic and philosophical cultural traits has its own history, one that comes in large part from the era of the Neoclassical. The rediscovery of antiquity took
One Man’s Quest for the End of the World Started on a Ranch in Texas
"A Texas businessman believes he was divinely chosen to help usher in the Second Coming of Christ—by finding unblemished red heifers and getting them to Israel."
But We Had Music
How, knowing that even the universe is dying, do we bear our lives? Most readily, through friendship, through connection, through co-creating the world we want to live in for the brief time we have together on this lonely, perfect planet. The seventh annual Universe in Verse —
Director Rian Johnson (Knives Out, Poker Face) wrote the...
Director Rian Johnson (Knives Out, Poker Face) wrote the review of the Thursday crossword puzzle for the NY Times today . “I love a good Thursday. The baffling special graphics, the wait-that-can’t-be-right puzzlement and that glorious ah-ha moment…”
An Overfilled Guggenheim Retrospective Dulls Carol Bove’s Brilliance
A smaller survey would have allowed for something more meaningful than just showing what Bove has been doing for the past decades.
How to Be a Tree: Notes on the Resilience of Letting Go
This essay and poem are part of the Universe in Verse book. Trees grant us some of the richest metaphors for our own lives — a polished lens on the quality of attention we pay the world. “The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing
Art Movements: Anicka Yi Picks Up the Pace
The artist is now represented by Pace, along with three other galleries. Plus, NYC has a new culture commissioner, closures at art schools, and more industry news.
Required Reading
This week: Iranian heritage sites, a Native artist’s anti-ICE beadwork, France’s Braille Museum, mapping Black-owned bookstores, the business behind America’s sauna frenzy, and more.
