Playful idiosyncrasies and bouts of whimsy bubble up in the Brooklyn-based artist's works. 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 Playful, Enigmatic
The veiled symbolism of the artist's marble and stones has largely flown under the radar, but these mystical depths are too profound to miss out on.
“Most technologies are like guns. They tend to get aggregated and captured by those who already have a lot. Technology, in other words, generally exhibits preferential attachment to power .”
“The uncomfortable truth is that the president of the United States is a man with the mind of a spoiled child . His debilitating solipsism is a threat to the stability of the entire world. A functional Congress would impeach and remove him.”
"At 38, I began to feel the creep of the millennial midlife crisis. So I decided to break the strangest world record I could find."
"Many people today want to commit their remains to rejuvenating the planet. But are these green deaths just greenwashing?"
In 'Green Carnation,' Kris Knight presents a collection of diptychs stemming from Victorian-era floriology. 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 The
He combined the reductive strain of Abstract Expressionism with the principles and style of Japanese ink painting, for something uniquely his own.
The First Animation That Hayao Miyazaki Directed on His Own: Watch Footage from the Pilot of Yuki’s Sun (1972) .
Featuring past fellows alongside a broader circle of artists linked to the Academy, the show brings together work by Danica Lundy, Dana Schutz, Tschabalala Self, Amy Sherald, and more.
“ A flock of ring-necked parakeets that were filmed feasting on the wall of a 19th Century barn were echoing Amazonian feeding habits…near Welwyn in Hertfordshire .”
"It wouldn't have been failure to be bankrupt, dishonoured, pilloried, hanged; it was failure not to be anything."
"Self-hate is really the same thing as sheer egoism, and in the long run breeds the same cruel isolation and despair."
The Hudson Valley-based artist channels an interest in the relationship between the imaginary and the real. 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 Pam
Most people live as though death is undesirable. But would immortality be a blessing – or an interminable curse? - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
A mysterious public artwork on the National Mall, the Philadelphia Art Museum's ongoing rebrand debacle, new Louvre heist footage, and Yoko Ono's relentless positivity.
Why do books and records have standard pricing? You’d think that a record from Miles Davis or Patricia Barber would cost more than one from the local garage band. Economists tie themselves into knots trying to explain why wine and handbags have such wide price variation, but
Buckminster Fuller was, in many ways, a twenty-first century man: an achievement in itself, considering he was born in the nineteenth century and died in the twentieth. In fact, it may actually count as his defining achievement. For all the inventions presented as revolutionary
?si=4AEj95O5wdpShG3I FYI: Sesame Street has released on YouTube more than 140 full episodes from past seasons. On the Sesame Street Classics channel, you’ll find some iconic episodes, starting with the very first 1969 broadcast. Watch it above. Also on that same channel you can
Here is the mathematical logic of the spirit: If love is the quality of attention we pay something other than ourselves and hate is the veil of not understanding ourselves, then loving the world more — the other word for which is kindness — is largely a matter of deepening our
The video shows how the thieves made it in and out of the museum's Apollo Gallery almost seamlessly with the nation's crown jewels.
"Inside, The Valley Sings" is a devastating look at solitary confinement in U.S. prisons. 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 A Rotoscoped Film
Art history departments often fail to embed disability studies into their curricula when engaging with art, politics, and identity.
The institution set up a task force to evaluate the controversial new brand identity as it parts ways with its chief marketing officer.
"Guy Bradley gave his life to save South Florida’s tropical birds, becoming one of the environmental movement’s first martyrs."
Wyatt Hodgson took Koyaanisqatsi and sped it up 1552% so you can watch the whole movie in about five minutes. Reggio uses time lapse in the film to great effect — you notice different things at different playback speeds — and Hodgson’s clever use of the same technique reveals
The sculpture's authors told Hyperallergic that they erected the piece after the government failed to release the complete Epstein files.
The Brooklyn-based artist's compositions teeter between representation and the imaginary. 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 Clouds Billow and Caverns