Sanford Wurmfeld’s Unstable Geometry
He emphasizes the temporality of looking, as well as underscores that one’s experience of time is subjective.
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The Supreme Court Has Invented a Right to Discriminate ....
The Supreme Court Has Invented a Right to Discriminate . “The Roberts Court has replaced the Fifteenth Amendment’s ban on racial discrimination in voting with a right to engage in racial discrimination in voting.”
Nominations are open for this year’s Tiny Awards ....
Nominations are open for this year’s Tiny Awards . “The Tiny Awards exist because we thought it was important to shine a spotlight on the sorts of personal web projects that tend to get overlooked.”
Phantasmic Figures Grapple with Their Doubles in Xie Lei’s Dreamy Oil Paintings
"What I’m trying to achieve is to transport the viewer into another world," Xie says. 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 Phantasmic Figures Grapple
Interesting question and resulting thread: have you...
Interesting question and resulting thread: have you talked with someone who was alive in the 1800s? I think I technically have (a relative in the 80s when I was a kid) but I don’t remember the circumstances. Anyone have a good memory to share?
The New Mister Rogers YouTube Channel
The folks at Fred Rogers Productions have launched a YouTube channel dedicated to Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood . They plan to post compilations, clips, and full episodes, some of which haven’t been seen on PBS in years & years. One of the first complete episodes they’ve posted
My Students Can’t Read . “There is a measurable,...
My Students Can’t Read . “There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing, and the academy is responding to it with improvisation and exhaustion rather than the structural overhaul it requires.”
Losing Paradise
"As rising seas swallow Louisiana’s marshes, oil companies are pretending nothing has changed — and that now floatable, fishable waters remain their private property."
Dave Krugman’s ‘WINDOWS’ Captures a Multitudinous Portrait of New York City
The Brooklyn-based photographer seeks patterns in his wanderings around the city. 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 Dave Krugman’s ‘WINDOWS’ Captures
Discover MA Arts and Cultural Enterprise at Central Saint Martins
Develop business skills for cultural management and production on this flexible, part-time online Masters.
Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969
Featuring live presentations, this exhibition grounds performance as the foundation of contemporary Native Art. On view at SITE Santa Fe June 5–September 7, 2026.
The Official Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood YouTube Channel Goes Live: Watch Complete Episodes, Including the Very First
A great many, and perhaps the majority of Americans now between their late twenties and early sixties, have spent time in Mister Rogers’ neighborhood. My own period of regular visitation would have been in the nineteen-eighties, a decade when Fred Rogers introduced his
Yeah, I’ll read the hell out of a Wesley Morris profile...
Yeah, I’ll read the hell out of a Wesley Morris profile of Steven Spielberg . “Spielberg has always known that his movies are attempts to understand his boyhood and his parents, to try to heal them through fiction and illuminate parts of himself.”
The Paperboy’s Secret
"In boyhood, guilt was a constant companion. I stopped mentioning the quarters that Mr. Wood put into my pocket."
Are Memories Transferable — or Edible?
"In the 1960s, worm-training experiments and their strange implications captivated the nation."
Listening to Our Queer & Trans Elders
We kick off our Pride Month series with painter Jamie Nares. Plus, a sports betting company makes its first foray into the art market.
Art is a verb
If a machine makes a painting that no one ever sees, it might be well-crafted or match some objective form of beauty, but it’s not art. Art changes the creator and the viewer. Art requires participation. Art is a verb. Decoration is important. Beauty matters. But decoration and
How Nick Drake’s “River Man” Has Captivated Generation after Generation of Listeners
In 1999, Volkswagen aired a television commercial for the Golf Mk3 Cabrio. Dealerships were soon inundated with calls, as popular culture history remembers it, but not from people inquiring about the car. Rather, they were desperate to know the name of the song soundtracking