Miuccia Prada is worth $4.8 billion. How good of a person do you expect her to be? “I got to thinking about all this the other day while mulling the curious, oft-repeated fact that Miuccia Prada was, in her 1960s youth, a Communist.”
This week, we honor a pioneering composer, Indigenous muralist, and Upper East Side gallerist.
Across the city, exhibitions, auctions, and lectures converge to celebrate art history, material culture, and centuries-old traditions spanning from Persia to Japan.
“Birds in the United States are not only declining, but they are declining faster , especially in areas with intensive agriculture, according to new research.”
Since the war began, I feel as if I am living inside a shadow. It has no physical form, yet it follows me everywhere.
A man allegedly broke into an exhibition space in Seattle, shattered a Dale Chihuly installation, and tried to stab a guard with a glass shard.
A playable CSS-only Super Mario Bros game . Wow.
Moore's solo exhibition 'Theater' continues at Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta through March 21. 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 Nostalgia and Decay
A generator for VHS slipcovers, cassette tape inserts, CD labels & inserts. You can paste in Spotify URLs, search for movies, etc. Really cool and fun.
The chess program available on Delta Air Lines’ seatback screens is an ELO monster that can beat almost all opponents on easy mode. This guy used a series of increasingly powerful bots to see just how good the Delta chess bot is. Can it beat a grandmaster-level bot? (via clive
It is in relationships that we discover both our depths and our limits, there that we anneal ourselves and transcend ourselves, there that we are hurt the most and there that we find the most healing. But despite what a crucible of our emotional and spiritual lives
"If you can fall in love again and again ... if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical, man you've got it half licked."
What does it feel like to be struck by lightning? “Some have to relearn simple things, things they’ve done their whole life — how to read, how to sing, how to ride a bike.”
Pejac challenges our sense of space and the possibilities of the "blank slate." 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 Pejac Transforms Basic Graph Paper
Trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day . I like that Tom Holland. I’m into it.
The Fascinating Engineering of the Titanic: How the Great Ocean Liner Was Built . “Issues of the journal The Engineer published between 1909 and 1911 contain detailed photographs of the construction of both the Titanic and Olympic…”
Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for Years . “Ms. Murguia and another woman, Debra Rojas, say that Mr. Chavez sexually abused them for years when they were girls, from around 1972 to 1977.”
Pratt Fine Arts is delighted to invite visitors to a two-part show curated by Alessandra Gómez at Dock 72 in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
"Israel’s new international college programs offer American students an escape from campus activism while training them as state cheerleaders."
Johnston's otherworldly cast seems both familiar and strange. 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 Folklore and Nature Converge in Cat Johnston’s
This is a mindblowing time capsule of ordinary life: video of a group of friends taking the NYC subway to Coney Island in 1987. Because it was before mobile phones, they had to arrange to meet one of the group members in the first car of the train along the way. The film was
Jamelle Bouie says the SAVE Act will take us back to Jim Crow South : “a one-party state, backed by the threat of violence, where the law ensures that most people cannot hope for meaningful political representation.”
"The British street artist’s identity has been debated, and closely guarded, for decades. A quest to solve the riddle took Reuters from a bombed-out Ukrainian village to London and downtown Manhattan—and uncovered much more than a name."
"Once violently defended from extinction, Welsh is still a part of daily life. By learning my family’s language, I hoped to join their conversation."
The future of Islamic art, boycott calls at the Venice Biennale, a guide to New York's spring art fairs, and a different kind of Frida Kahlo exhibition.
The authors of the new book Good Writing share their insights on reading, writing, and their day-to-day life.
It’s tempting but useless. The skin is unblemished and the perfect color. It’s well displayed, promoted widely and on sale. But there’s nothing inside. It’s not worth eating and certainly not worth sharing. This is the streaming series with great lighting and talented actors,
For many of us, Jane Goodall was one of those cultural figures who seemed always to have been around, and on some level, made us feel like she always would be. But of course, no human being lives forever, no matter how widely admired. Goodall made her own departure last fall,
Leonard Muellner (Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies at Brandeis University) and Belisi Gillespie (who now teaches classics at Agnes Scott College) have posted 118 videos on YouTube, which, when taken together, “present all the content covered in two semesters of a