Headlines
- All
- Africa
- Asia
- Business
- Culture
- Environment
- Europe
- Gaming
- Markets
- Middle East
- Movies & TV
- Music
- Politics
- Science
- South America
- Tech
- World News
Meet This Year’s Joan Mitchell Fellows
15 artists won this year’s prize. Plus, an interview with the founder of BlackStar Film Festival, layoffs at the San Diego Museum of Art, and more.
Bouncy brothers
Two brothers struggle to keep a bouncy house business afloat in this nuanced portrait of family and the pursuit of success - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
15 Artists Named 2026 Joan Mitchell Fellows
Each recipient will receive $60,000 in unrestricted funding distributed over five years, in the spirit of the namesake abstract painter’s commitment to “aid and assist” artists.
The magic of a two-year waitlist
The Decware triode amp is the best low-power stereo amp I’ve ever heard. And it’s a bargain. If you have the right speakers, it’s an extraordinary device. And there’s a two-year waitlist. 2000 people, 11 pages long. This approach to timing and production serves all the people
Watch Stewart Brand’s 6‑Part Series How Buildings Learn, With Music by Brian Eno
Stewart Brand came onto the cultural scene during the 1960s, helping to stage the Acid Tests made famous by Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, and later launching the influential Whole Earth Catalog (something Steve Jobs described as “Google in paperback form, 35 years before
“Widely regarded as the most complicated board...
“Widely regarded as the most complicated board game ever made , The Campaign for North Africa tries to simulate WW2’s North African theater in as granular fashion as possible…” 1500 hours to finish the game — that’s 1h20m every day for 3 years.
Good sentence : “The market’s most lavish...
Good sentence : “The market’s most lavish rewards do not go to its most productive participants, but rather, to those participants who have the good fortune to emerge from the luckiest of orifices.”
Art Dispatches From “Habibi City”
Alan Michelson’s oyster-shaped public artwork on Governors Island, a fragment of The Odyssey at The Met, and Simone Forti talking about her days in Yoko Ono’s Manhattan loft.
10 Photo Books to Read This Month
Hal Fischer’s archive of queer fashion, Sophie Rivera’s portraits of Nuyorican communities, Rania Matar’s love letter to Lebanon, and more new titles to check out from photo book publishers.
J.R.R. Tolkien on Fairy Tales, Language, the Psychology of Fantasy, and Why There’s No Such Thing as Writing “For Children”
"Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else (make something new), may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds."
San Diego Museum of Art Lays Off 11 Workers
The cuts impacted employees in departments including programs, development, exhibitions, and operations as the institution cited financial difficulties.
Russia Has Damaged or Destroyed Over 4,500 Cultural Sites in Ukraine
The National Art Museum of Ukraine and the Odesa National Fine Arts Museum are among the 141 museums and galleries affected.
Stuffed Animals and Found Objects Reconfigure in Sungho Bae’s Uncanny Sculptures
Sungho Bae's uncanny sculptures aremade of a vibrant, fleshy patchwork that resembles organs, tissue, muscle, and more. 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
Maori Karmael Holmes Looks Back on 15 Years of BlackStar
The Philadelphia film festival’s founder reflects on its evolution into a hub for experimental, polyphonic storytelling amid a rapidly changing country and world.
The Story Behind Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” and the Poet’s Own Stirring Reading of His Masterpiece
"Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
Discover Millions of Artworks from Thousands of Museums with This Huge Art Search Engine
"We currently have around five million artworks indexed, and strive to eventually index all museum art in the world," the creators say. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7
“ Your brain is a gambling addict that bets on...
“ Your brain is a gambling addict that bets on reality . It doesn’t wait for information. It guesses what should happen and adjusts when surprised. Most bets win. But when they don’t, you run into walls.”
16 Hours in an Oakland Dive Bar
"Very few Oakland establishments open before noon. Club 2101 in Dimond is one of them. For patrons, it’s a second home."
I’ve felt this for years (blogs have global context):...
I’ve felt this for years (blogs have global context): “ The uni-context is a scenario in which the ways you should act become the same across all different contexts . There’s just one set of norms you should follow all times, irrespective of context.”
Meghann Stephenson’s Tender Paintings Contrast Women’s Agency with ‘Acceptable Behavior’
'Queen of the Neighborhood!' will include a suite of new paintings that correspond to the nine circles of Hell in Dante's 'Inferno.' 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
How the Beatles Made their Most Acclaimed Album, Revolver, Released 60 Years Ago This Month
Among Beatles connoisseurs, it’s fair game to claim anything from Rubber Soul to Abbey Road as one’s favorite album. But even within that span of the catalog, a hierarchy of acclaim exists, and that hierarchy has been rearranged over the decades. The ecstatic reception of Sgt.
“An Absolute Climate Catastrophe”
British climate scientist Kevin Anderson (from a 2024 video ): So there is lots that you will hear — lots of rhetoric, lots of good words, lots of optimism about the future. But given we’ve known about this subject and apparently been working on it for 30 years, the trend line
“ Since 1974, vaccination has averted 154 million...
“ Since 1974, vaccination has averted 154 million deaths , including 146 million among children younger than 5 years… For every death averted, 66 years of full health were gained on average, translating to 10.2 billion years of full health gained.”