A groundbreaking cartoonist paired images with a running narrative in 1896 to create the first comic strip. They've mutated into books, blockbuster movies and Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novels
The artist's stirring commencement speech at RISD, the best art shows in NYC this summer, and can you really have friendships in the art world?
Not natural, not quite unnatural, the strange new rocks of the Anthropocene stretch the boundaries of geology - by John MacDonald Read on Aeon
Irna Phillips was a radio voice actor in Chicago when she was asked to create a serialized program. From that, she created a legacy that includes ‘Guiding Light’ and ‘As the World Turns’
There are more than a million podcasts. The good news is that it’s easy to start one. The top 1% of all podcasts account for 99% of all downloads. That means that if your goal is reach, the long tail isn’t going to help much. The short head, even in a medium as wide open […]
When Clare Torry went into the studio to record her now-legendary vocals for Pink Floyd’s “Great Gig in the Sky,” the centerpiece of 1973’s Dark Side of the Moon, neither the singer nor the band was particularly impressed with each other. David Gilmour remembered the moment in
"My life... runs back through time and space to the very beginnings of the world and to its utmost limits. In my being I sum up the earthly inheritance and the state of the world at this moment."
How The Heck Do Solar Panels Work? “Every hour, the Earth receives enough sunlight to power all of human civilization for a year. It arrives silently, from all directions, at no cost.”
Mad Max creator George Miller wants to make one more Mad Max movie and a TV series before calling it quits.
Pierre Huyghe’s brain activity-inspired dreamscapes, Orientalism at The Met, a menagerie of mystical animals, and so much more.
Randomly thought of Brendan Dassey today. He’s still serving out his life sentence for, IMO, having absolutely nothing to do with the murder at the center of Netflix’s Making a Murderer.
The textile artist known as Cheeks embraced a wave of city pride at his now-viral Fort Greene embroidery pop-up.
"A Ferrari and a distinctive Highland Park home combined for an iconic scene in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off."
The richly layered painting was created by artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby using her signature photo-transfer technique.
The SpaceX IPO Is A Giant Unworkable Con Orchestrated By An Overt White Supremacist Huckster . “He’s endlessly mythologized by a shitty corporate press, eager to ignore his virulent racism & financial fraud bc he’s accumulated obscene amounts of money.”
When you’re constantly asked for things you can’t deliver, it can be hard to tell who your real friends are. Paddy Johnson has tips.
Deadly bombardments across Ukraine sparked the fire in the UNESCO site, an 11th-century Christian monastery.
Rockwood, Texas is home to a unique business, Starfront Observatories . Owner/operator Bray Falls hosts hundreds of other people’s telescopes in perfect conditions — ultra-dark skies (Class 1 on the Bortle scale ), clear weather, and fast internet — so astrophotographers from
The great paradox of human life is that our mortality is the fulcrum of our search for meaning — the yearning to make this brief lungful of life matter amid the breathless void of space and time — and yet we spend our lives obviating the fact that we are mortal. If we are lucky
"While wandering down the path of wonder, I briefly escape the world of separation and enter the world of unity."
How to get out of bed . “There is no 28 point shot in basketball. The only way to come back from a 27 point deficit is one shot at a time. Two points here. Two points there. A few three pointers sprinkled in.”
The photographer is driven by a desire to "explore the reality that humans are not separate from nature, but intrinsically part of it." Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7
DJ Shadow and the BBC Symphony Orchestra will be performing a “collaborative reimagination for orchestra” of his seminal album Endtroducing… in December . Tickets are already sold out , but there will be a recording!
Sarah Schulman's fiction about lesbian artists, Vaginal Davis's new catalog, and more.
Matthew Butterick is a lawyer, programmer, writer, and designer. He’s written a long, interesting piece about the inherent risks of AI called Extinction-Level Capitalism . It is well-worth a read; I’ve excerpted several passages here but urge you read the whole thing . In
Graduate candidates work with a roster of renowned visiting artists during an eight-week summer intensive for MECA&D’s MFA in Studio Art.
"The jet was perhaps the pinnacle of American engineering excellence. Its retirement signals an end to an era of American culture—and ambition."
To RISD’s graduating class, I say: The most necessary work comes from the willingness to stay in the discomfort of the open question.
In a way, it always made sense that one of the most memorable visual distillations of Southern California life would have been painted by an Englishman. The purest appreciation for the wide-open lifestyle choices, freestyle built environment, unrepentant private wealth, and
Paul McCartney on Song Exploder . I think he was with The Beatles at some point?
The artist's giant woodcuts are on view this month at Hecho a Mano in Santa Fe. 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 Annalise Gratovich’s Life-Size
Artist Claire Salvo has painted the starting five of the world champion NY Knicks on a set of US one dollar bills. If you’re in NYC, you may have seen these cheekily pasted up around the city . She’s selling a print of all five bills but is also auctioning off the
Sports but make it wealth inequality : “Brunson…didn’t take an extra $113M so the Knicks could sign KAT, Mikal Bridges and keep OG long term… It’s almost as if sharing wealth leads to better outcomes for all…”
"With many people desperate for secure housing, what does the abandonment of this palace tell us about the UK?"