If what you want is to see tiny people all over your plate, you 100% absolutely have to try Lanmaoa asiatica. The mushroom is a popular food during mushroom season, but if undercooked has the same effect worldwide: lilliputian hallucinations .
From butterflies to Beethoven, an ode to the heart's uncontainable dimensions.
A rare manuscript illustration casts Blackness not as a mirror of sin, but the ground from which love itself might take shape.
I know I probably say this every time I post videos like this, but I wish I’d gotten into art & art history earlier than I did. Channels like Behind the Masterpiece are so good at making this stuff come alive and their Brief History of Japanese Art scratches my recent interest
On historical accuracy in movies (Wuthering Heights, The Odyssey) and the “anxious, professional monitoring in which the images onscreen must be checked and rechecked for their accordance with the original text and preexisting notions about it”.
"After moving to London, the writer’s growing posse of British felines took a walk on the wild side—and taught her a lesson in independence."
The AI hater’s guide to code with LLMs . This is an interesting and thoughtful read.
Activists and officials returned the rainbow flag to Christopher Park after it was removed at the federal administration’s directive.
Recently released: Super Nintendo: The Game-Changing Company That Unlocked the Power of Play . “What magical mushroom could have turned an unassuming playing card company into one of the dominant cultural forces of the twenty-first century?”
A molly guard is a safety cover that you need to move out of the way before pressing an important button. “Anecdotally, this is named after Molly, an engineer’s daughter who was invited to a datacenter and promptly pressed a big red button…”
A new exhibition at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles conveys the film’s whimsy and wonder through interactive elements.
Polar explorer and scientist Felicity Aston shares her beauty uniform . “When I come back from an expedition, my hair is in the GREATEST shape. That whole thing about washing your hair less frequently? It’s true.”
Across two galleries in Manhattan, eight artists and collectives flout the weaponization of their identities to justify violence, instead presenting a vision of belonging and reclaimed lineages.
Food Is Love is a collection of essays about “how memory, food, and love are all intertwined”. “We are reminded that food is an expression of love, and sometimes the only way people who loved us were capable of showing it.”
14-year old Miles Wu recently won the top prize at a junior innovators competition for an origami shape that can hold 10,000 times its own weight “that could be used to build deployable shelters for emergency situations like natural disasters”.
Hieu Chau compares his dense, dynamic compositions to his always active mind. 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 Surreal Dreams Reign in Hieu Chau’s
The 50 Most Underappreciated Movies of the 21st Century . I’ve only seen a few of these; I’ve added a bunch to my to-see list. Any particular faves? Or additions to the list?
Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez, a Mexican-American artist whose work centers immigrant experiences, said the school closed his show without notice.
"In old age we should wish still to have passions strong enough to prevent us turning in on ourselves."
"Fill yourself with the beautiful stuff of the world... Get amazed. Get astonished. Get awed on a regular basis, so that getting awed is habitual and becomes a state of being."
As I mentioned previously , comments have been unavailable on the site for the past few weeks: There was a rise in casual negativity that felt too close to how social media feels, i.e. a place where even well-meaning folks are not incentivized to think “this isn’t for me” and
Fun fact of the day: at the height of his quadruple axel, Olympic figure skater Ilia Malinin is spinning at 350 rpm , “about the same as a kitchen stand mixer”.
You're invited to the Chicago debut of the award-winning documentary on March 25. 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 Join Us for the Chicago Premiere
Who should lead arts and culture in NYC, Valentine's Day tips, and the sad state of Artforum.
Good institutions are social technologies that scale trust from personal relations to entire nations. How do they work? - by Julien Lie-Panis Read on Aeon
The first generation was built on large models, demonstrating what could be done and powering many tools. The second generation is focused on reducing costs and saving time. Replacing workers or making them more efficient. But you can’t shrink your way to greatness. The third
In this week’s Top 5 we have lessons from apartheid, clever Claude, feeling bodies anew, the power of wax, and free mining.
It doesn’t take too long a look at the almost surrealistically clean-lined buildings of Walter Gropius to get the impression that the man wanted to usher in a new world, especially when you consider that many of them went up before World War II. Take the Bauhaus Dessau