For his latest video essay , Evan Puschak tells us about Un Chien Andalou, the pioneering surrealist short film by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. The film is particularly notable for a shocking shot in the opening scene, which, if you’ve seen it, you’ve likely never forgotten.
Residencies, fellowships, grants, and open calls from the Bennett Prize, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers.
"New science is showing that nature’s vital pollinators are smarter than we ever imagined."
I fixed a few bugs on the Rolodex yesterday — some of the feeds weren’t updating and modifying sites wasn’t working properly. (Members get the mini-feedreader view !)
In this Bay Area artist’s hands, weaving becomes a site of experimentation and refusal.
“Since 1900, scientists have observed more than 20 phases of ice , many of them shaped under extreme conditions. The growing list includes hot ice and even ice that conducts electricity.”
On view from May 5 to 17 in Medford, Massachusetts, this exhibition represents the graduating class and their journeys through worlds visited and imaged.
"We quit our bad habits for the sake of our future selves. How naïve of us."
On the futility of border walls . “The Ozymandian ruins of many such walls litter our ancient and modern landscapes, because for as long as humanity has built hard borders, people have inevitably found ways to cross, topple or simply bypass them.”
The Secret to Success Is ‘Monotasking’ . “We find that in real‑world work, the more switches in attention a person makes, the lower is their end‑of‑day assessed productivity.”
"Their family members vanished near Mass. Ave. They won’t stop searching."
The exhibition’s international jury quits, Banksy strikes again, and a conversation with artist-activist Tania Bruguera.
For Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, a person is not self-contained, but the outcome of a lifelong process of living with others: we before I - by João de Pina-Cabral Read on Aeon
This edition highlights reading about messages in bottles, public benches, infinity, a series of books about everything, and pay-to-play orchestras.
The creators of the Blackberry were sure that customers loved the keyboard. That’s what they heard all day from their users, and it must have been right since they had a huge share of the mobile phone market. When the iPhone came out, it wasn’t seen as a threat because it had
About a year ago, a certain kind of cinephile took note of obituaries for Ted Kotcheff, a television-turned-film director who worked steadily from the mid-fifties to the mid-nineties. Even to readers only casually acquainted with movies, more than one title pops out from his
We place life’s bets by countless calculations of probability, conscious and unconscious, only to discover over and over how short they fall of the wildest reaches of the possible, which always includes but exceeds the probable. It helps to remember that we ourselves are
“If the doors of perception were cleansed,” William Blake wrote, “everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.” But we are finite creatures, in time and in space, and there is a limit to how much reality we can bear — evolution gave us consciousness so that we may sieve
Ahead of her performance “Tatlin’s Whisper #6” in Times Square, the artist and activist talks to Hyperallergic about free speech in times of rising authoritarianism.
Conductor Art Fair at Powerhouse Arts seeks to represent the underrepresented, with some notable overlap with next week’s Venice Biennale.
The public artwork celebrates the literary legacy of the city's storied "Little Syria."
The German artist was known for emotionally charged paintings and distorted views about women artists.
A man in a suit, his face covered by a flag, walks toward his own demise.
A day in the life of Peter Hujar, Mahmoud Khalil a year after detention, the madman theory of Trump, and more.
Monica Rohan's patterned fabrics and indoor furnishings once again make their way outside, although now, humans are nowhere to be found. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7
"Ultrafinitism, a philosophy that rejects the infinite, has long been dismissed as mathematical heresy. But it is also producing new insights in math and beyond."
Biennale shake-ups, a new leadership model for Manifesta, and Marina Abramović, wine whisperer?
