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Who Were the Couples That Posed for David Hockney's Famed Double Portraits?
One of his subjects was a cousin I never knew. I wanted to learn more about the large-scale portraits that helped define the English artist's legacy
Book 1 of the Iliad, Read in Ancient Greek
On his YouTube channel , Thomas Whichello reads interesting literature aloud, often in the original languages, dialects, or accents, with the goal of making “classic works intelligible and enjoyable to everybody”. One of his most popular videos is his recitation of book 1 of
Russian Dissident Artist Killed in Poland
Robert Kuzovkov, known by the pseudonym Semyon Skrepetsky, was reportedly shot after protesting near the Russian Embassy in Berlin.
The Black Jeopardy Misses YouTube channel catalogs just...
The Black Jeopardy Misses YouTube channel catalogs just how little Jeopardy contestants know about Black history, culture, and celebrities . (See also, of course, Black Jeopardy , which drives home a similar point in a different way.)
What Remains
"We may know that nothing lasts forever, but this knowledge doesn’t alleviate the loneliness of grief."
Two Huge Collections of Leonardo’s Codexes Digitally Reunited After 400 Years
For the first time in hundreds of years, two collections of Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks have been brought together online at the Leonardotheka . In some cases, pages that were cut apart centuries ago have been digitally joined so we can see the full pages again, as Leonardo
The Meaning of Maturity: Ursula K. Le Guin on What It Really Takes to Grow Up
It is not merely a matter of growing bones and growing responsibilities, this business of growing up, this unfinishable project of becoming ourselves. It is less like the evolutionary diagram of the upright ape than like a Russian nesting doll, our prior selves not outgrown but
‘State Fairs: Growing American Craft’ Surveys Agriculture, Ingenuity, and Community
From cows sculpted out of butter to seed art and crazy foods, ingenuity is as much a part of the tradition as showcasing time-honored practices. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little
How to Hack a Superyacht
"GPS is critical to everything from shipping to warfare. Tricking it is ridiculously easy."
A searchable archive of the almost 5000 TV episodes that...
A searchable archive of the almost 5000 TV episodes that naturalist David Attenborough has worked on in his career (1954-present) . “Search by animal, habitat, location, natural phenomenon, or theme to find exactly the episode you’re looking for.”
How Errol Morris’s The Thin Blue Line Solved the Crime
Before making his revolutionary documentary film The Thin Blue Line , filmmaker Errol Morris worked as a private detective. His detective skills came in handy not only in making the film but in actually solving the crime at the heart of the story and freeing an innocent man
Sam Bankman-Fried’s Prison Experiment
"His life behind bars and his desperate campaign to get free."
Andrea Pitzer writes about the forced labor happening in...
Andrea Pitzer writes about the forced labor happening in Trump’s immigrant concentration camps and its roots in chattel slavery in the US and in Nazi & Soviet work camps.
Proposed UI rule of thumb : “If I take a...
Proposed UI rule of thumb : “If I take a screenshot of your app at any moment, it must make sense.”
Diana Beltrán Herrera’s Embroidered Paper Sculptures Mimic Plants and Wildlife
"Thread becomes a way of drawing, connecting, and constructing forms," the artist 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 Diana Beltrán Herrera’s
Five Advances That Helped Turn a Night Out at the Movies Into the All-Enveloping Experience It Has Become
The power of film is often in its ability to feel larger than life. Movie makers have been developing ways to accentuate that aspect for more than a century
Prediction Markets Let You Bet on Anything. I Bet Against My Own Husband.
"You can wager on war, elections, awards shows, reality TV, scientific progress, and—in the case of writer Carrie Sun—your own spouse. If you want to play, you have to wonder: Are you smarter than an inside trader?"
Every Generation of Teenagers Redefines Pop Culture Through Its Favorite Music, Fads, Movies and Trends
When new government policies allowed kids more time to grown up, the teenager was born. And every decade or so, they’ve changed the ways they entertain themselves … and everyone else
Female philosophers: Héloïse
Morality is rooted in love, not institutions: the enduring impact of Héloïse’s 12th-century romance with Abelard - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Artist Claire Valdez Is Ready for Congress
The New York State assembly member talks politics and painting in a Hyperallergic interview.
The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Cory Doctorow
The author of Enshittification and the new The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI on hammock life, the joy of pulp, and writing through it.
Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life
"To be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances, not to grow despondent and not to lose heart — that’s what life is all about, that's its task."
Status symbols
It’s pretty astonishing how far people will go to announce various forms of status: The list has little to do with money spent or money in the bank. Humans care about status and affiliation. We’ve spent our lives being very good at noticing both.
Every Stanley Kubrick Film Ranked from Worst to Best
If you had to pick a single figure to represent the concept of the film auteur, you could do much worse than Stanley Kubrick. That’s not to call him the greatest director who ever lived, nor even to call his body of work the greatest in cinema. But no filmography more clearly
Time Travel Back to 1926 and Watch Wassily Kandinsky Make Art in Some Rare Vintage Video
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel back in time and look over the shoulder of one of the early 20th century’s greatest artists to watch him work? In this brief film from 1926, we get to see the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky as he turns a blank canvas
Oliver Sacks on the Necessity of Our Illusions
"We need detachment... as much as we need engagement in our lives... transports that make our consciousness of time and mortality easier to bear."
Claire Valdez Wants to Be Your Artist in Congress
The New York State assemblywoman, who is running for a seat in the House of Representatives, spoke with Hyperallergic about her life as a painter, political origin story, and big plans for Washington.
Is this the sloppiest AI slop video of all time? The...
Is this the sloppiest AI slop video of all time? The AI-generated voiceover (at ~6:45) gets tripped up saying “what WWE” and basically sings Daisy Bell for more than 10 minutes until someone kicks the server.
House Proposes Slashing Nation’s Only Arts Education Grant
The program has awarded millions in grants for organizations serving families living below local poverty lines.
House Proposes Slashing Major Arts Education Grant
The program has awarded millions in grants for organizations serving families living below local poverty lines.
Kaleidoscopic Subway Mosaics Celebrate Flatbush’s Theater History
At the Church Avenue station, Christopher Myers’s glass-tiled panels explore the rich legacy of vaudeville and Afro-Caribbean carnival culture.
City of Champions
If the Knicks can do it, any of us can. Plus, must-see shows around NYC this summer: Orientalism, Pope.L, Sonia Boyce, and more.
What Makes a Person: The Seven Layers of Selfhood in Literature and Life
"It is the intentions, the capacities for choice rather than the total configuration of traits which defines the person."
If I lived in LA, I would go to this concert at the...
If I lived in LA, I would go to this concert at the Hollywood Bowl: Music From the Films of Wes Anderson . “Over three nights, musicians including Beck, Jenny Lewis, Jackson Browne, and Mothersbaugh himself perform favorite songs, scores…”