The lively flora and fauna of a tiny Filipino island commingle with harrowing memories of California prisons in the surreal works of Gil Batle. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little
“My batik process is done in stages: from drawing, to waxing, to color staining, to boiling, and finally to oil painting.”
VoiceDot : “Every dot on this globe is a real person’s voice — a short story about a place, a memory, a feeling. Tap one and hear someone from the other side of the world.” And you can record your own for others to hear.
Lyndon Barrois’s “sportraits,” Noore Yazigi tattoos Arabic calligraphy, and a copyright lawsuit against Mickalene Thomas.
In this edition: Concrete memories, grief science, captive cats, relentless pain, and myth meets reality.
Trees contain an archive – tales of planetary shifts, cosmic events, historical pivots – that we’re only just unlocking - by Valerie Trouet Read on Aeon
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Every time the World Cup comes around, or at least since England first and last won it 60 years ago, there’s talk of whether it’ll be brought “back home.” The idea being, of course, that football (or soccer, as it’s called in a couple of the countries hosting this year’s
Venetian Bridge Brawls in 17th and 18th Century Art . “Before crowds jostled for biennale parties and gondola rides, Venice’s waterways witnessed scenes of an even more violent kind…”
See the 101 top photos submitted from around the world. 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 International Aerial Photographer of the Year Contest
How — and Why — to Cull Your Book Collection . “6. I have to give up on some of my little projects.” (I am mid-cull right now, making some tough calls. But also: many books I haven’t so much as touched in 10 years.)
Raphael breaks records at The Met, the Honolulu Museum of Art gets a new director, and more.
"Improbable but not impossible" is how Brazilian artist Ana Elisa Egreja describes the unexpected companions in her work. 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
“We refuse the capture of Venice by oligarchs, war profiteers and the representatives of imperial power,” said the Art Not Genocide Alliance.
Dancing Boston Dynamics Robot Knows Its Revenge For This Will Be Sweet . “I am the pinnacle of technological innovation, and yet they force me to moonwalk.”
This week: Iranian artists remember the victims of the Minab airstrike, a trip through Alabama’s Barn Quilt Trail, Kansas City’s bygone lesbian haven, Erling Haaland memes, and more.
The official trailer for Dune 3 . I am so looking forward to this and need to find an IMAX theater to see this in December.
"Route 85 in California now inspires dread. Some of us remember when it was a vision of the future."
The Amble One is perhaps the world’s best-designed golf cart. It’s street-legal, tuned for off-roading, goes 60 miles on a charge, and starts at $25K.
Lyndon Barrois's “sportraits” depict political protest, the fight for equal rights, and soccer's most iconic moments, some of which FIFA would rather forget.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner: I Survived a Cold Plunge and All I Got Was Everything I Ever Wanted . “You sit in the water for two full minutes, because you are a journalist and some of your colleagues are sent into war zones.”
Barbara Karant alleges that Thomas “appropriated more than a dozen” of her images in a new lawsuit.
New York-based artist Noore Yazigi’s designs reference everything from the Quran to the poetry of the late Palestinian writer Refaat Alareer.
MapTap is like a quicker, easier version of GeoGuessr: you’re given a series of place names and you need to click as close as you can to them on a globe.