Fred Wilson Reflects Our World in Black and White

The artist confronts us with a colonial shadow of real and manufactured images that reflect our current existence and its distortions.

Hyperallergic • 2h

‘Modern Japanese Printmakers’ Celebrates Vibrant Mid-20th-Century Innovation

Trailblazing Japanese artists innovated unique techniques, merged traditional mediums with new methods, and reveled in experimentation. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7

Colossal: Explore contemporary art, craft, photography, and the natural world. • 5h

Kottke Wrapped 2025

Spotify really started something, didn’t they? Everyone has a “Wrapped” this year; I even got an email one from the cruise line on which I took a trip this summer. Like, “Congratulations! You went on {1} cruise for {7} days!” — and then nothing else. Two stats. So I thought for

kottke.org • 6h

Nancy Friedman: 52 Things I Learned in 2025. Incl. “Seventy-one percent of...

Nancy Friedman: 52 Things I Learned in 2025 . Incl. “Seventy-one percent of people in Iceland are Costco members” and “In Sweden, the largest size of Hellmann’s mayonnaise — 600 grams — is called “American size”. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

kottke.org • 7h

Kent Hendricks: 52 Things I Learned in 2025. Incl. “Birders in the...

Kent Hendricks: 52 Things I Learned in 2025 . Incl. “Birders in the United States spend $107 billion per year, including $93B on binoculars, feeders, cameras, and other equipment; and $14B on travel. That’s more than the GDP of New Hampshire.” 💬 Join the discussion on

kottke.org • 8h

Remembering the Art Restorer Who Lifted Our Spirits

There are few career paths where a professional mishap leads to great success, but Cecilia Giménez found one. The Spanish artist, who died this week at the age of 94, rose to fame and notoriety in the 2010s for her delightful “restoration” of “Ecce Homo,

Hyperallergic • 12h

Balthazar, 1997

"The noise between the world in which we had known each other and the world I occupied now went silent, or maybe only hushed."

Longreads • 12h

Which kind of ‘enough’?

If you buy an Ikea table, you’ll need 8 bolts to put it together. 7 is not enough. This is a functional sort of ‘enough.’ It can be critical to our survival. “I have enough medication to last through this illness.” “We have enough food to feed our family.” But this isn’t the

Seth's Blog • 13h

The Mystery of How a Samurai Ended up in 17th Century Venice

It wouldn’t surprise us to come across a Japanese person in Venice. Indeed, given the global touristic appeal of the place, we could hardly imagine a day there without a visitor from the Land of the Rising Sun. But things were different in 1873, just five years after the end of

Open Culture • 14h

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