Koyo Kouoh’s Final Show
The Louvre gets a new director, the world’s largest sock monkey, and remembering artists we lost this week.
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An Internet of Checkpoints
A mysterious YouTube video gave thousands of people a place to breathe. Then it vanished.
What Did the Instruments in Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights Sound Like? Oxford Scholars Recreate Them
Welcome to The Garden of Earthly Delights. You’ll find no angelic strings here. Those are reserved for first-class citizens whose virtuous lives earned them passage to the uppermost heights. Down below, stringed instruments produce the most hellish sort of cacophony, a fitting
How Medieval Cathedrals Were Built Without Science, or Even Mathematics
Science and engineering may be conflated to some degree in the public mind, but anyone who’s spent much time in an academic department belonging to one or the other of those branches of endeavor knows how insistently distinctions can be drawn between them. Bill Hammack, a
Is There a God? Stephen Hawking Gives the Definitive Answer to the Eternal Question
"The universe is the ultimate free lunch."
With Fringe Trim and Gilded Baubles, Damselfrau’s Masks Turn Disguise into Decadence
Embellished disguises that won't go without notice. 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 With Fringe Trim and Gilded Baubles, Damselfrau’s Masks Turn
The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting
"A comprehensive engineering and operational analysis of the Internet Archive."
“By Design” Treats Women Like Objects
Juliette Lewis turns into a chair in a film that critiques mass culture’s conflation of femininity with consumerism and envy.
Remembering Dóra Maurer, Isaiah Zagar, and Peter Stämpfli
This week, we honor a Hungarian avant-garde artist, a Philadelphia mosaicist, a Swiss pop artist, and others.
“A collection of images of trees at Dollar Tree...
“A collection of images of trees at Dollar Tree store locations across the United States.”
Physics Is a Conversation
Physicist Sean Carroll leads off this video with this line: I like to say that Einstein is, if anything, underrated as a physicist, which is hard to imagine given how highly he is rated. And then leads us through a history of modern physics and quantum mechanics that,
Do the Next Right Thing: Carl Jung on How to Live and the Origin of His Famous Tenet for Navigating Uncertainty
"There is no pit you cannot climb out of provided you make the right effort at the right place... do the next thing with diligence and devotion."
The Third Self: Mary Oliver on Creativity and Time
"The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time."
These synchronized martial arts robots are genuinely...
These synchronized martial arts robots are genuinely impressive.
Venice Biennale Names 111 Artists for International Exhibition
“In Minor Keys” opens on May 9, a year after beloved curator Koyo Kouoh’s passing.
Artist Sets Guinness World Record for Largest Sock Monkey
Emilia Evans-Munton, a Glasgow School of Art graduate, said she made the giant sculpture as an “ode to the toys that are left behind.”
Delve in to a Psychedelic Self-Portrait of Animator Jake Fried
Are we witnessing a time warp, a strange trip, or just a person who has stayed up way too late? 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 Delve in to a
They’re doing a new Pride and Prejudice adaptation...
They’re doing a new Pride and Prejudice adaptation . From the comments on the trailer: “this looks like a temu version of the 2005” and “The Darcy is not Darcying”.
Jayden Hoffman spent more than 4 months customizing this...
Jayden Hoffman spent more than 4 months customizing this computer keyboard , replacing the letter keys with hand-painted logos (McDonald’s arch for M, Avengers for A, Xbox logo for X, Google for G, etc.)
New Leader Picked for Crisis-Stricken Louvre Museum
Christophe Leribault, who heads the Palace of Versailles, succeeds Laurence des Cars within one day of her resignation.
Artists Thinking Out Loud: The IFPDA Returns to the Park Avenue Armory this April
The fair will bring together 80 exhibitors and an expanded focus on drawings in a nod to the medium’s long-standing relationship with printmaking.
Is This Waymo a Better Person Than You? “When the...
Is This Waymo a Better Person Than You? “When the light turns yellow, this Waymo does not speed up. It does not calculate whether it could make it. It does not believe in ‘probably.’ It waits.”
“The CyberTruck is 17 times more likely to have a...
“The CyberTruck is 17 times more likely to have a fire fatality than a Ford Pinto” , a 70s automobile that put the “car” in “exploding car”.
Commenters in this thread shared a bunch of songs...
Commenters in this thread shared a bunch of songs “where the drum beats are Morse code that also serve as a separate layer to the lyrics”.
20 Minutes of Excellent Skateboarding Clips
What’s fun about school closing for the wicked blizzard in the Northeast today is last week was February break for Massachusetts schools, which means many kids are home for the the 6th school day in a row, and many will be home for closures tomorrow and beyond. All this to say,
Tear Gun by Taiwanese designer Yi-Fei Chen is a...
Tear Gun by Taiwanese designer Yi-Fei Chen is a contraption that “collects and freezes actual tears to shoot them back at the person who caused the cry”.
Playful Patterns Emerge from Kinetic Systems in Pinaffo & Pluvinage’s Vibrant Installations
Brightly colored wood elements, electronics, and intricate frameworks create joyful, interactive installations. 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
Wait: Galway Kinnell’s Beautiful and Life-Giving Poem for a Young Friend Contemplating Suicide
"Be there to hear ... the flute of your whole existence..."