Is Betting on the Art Market a Terrible Idea?
The prediction platform Kalshi is launching a dedicated art category amid heightened scrutiny over insider trading in wagers across industries.
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Tavares Strachan’s First Monograph Surveys an Encyclopedic Practice
Tavares Strachan is one of the leading conceptual artists working today, and his first monograph is out this month from Phaidon. 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
In Los Angeles, 70 Artists Transform a Vacant Hospital into a Sprawling Art Experience
Dubbed the 'Hospital of Emotions,' the pop-up exhibition converts 80 rooms into surreal 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 In Los
Portrait of a Papal Artist
In Rome, an exhibition explores Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s relationship to his most powerful patron, Pope Urban VIII.
Divination, Mark Making, Boxing, & Drawing: "Tracey Rose" at Ruby City
Opening June 6 in San Antonio, Texas, “Tracey Rose” offers viewers an intimate look at the artist’s groundbreaking multidisciplinary practice including performance and drawings.
Summer Fridays, Open Thread
I’m observing summer Fridays here at KDO again this year, which means I (mostly) won’t be posting here on Fridays. If past years are any guide, this doesn’t actually have too much of an effect on how much I work or post…more of a redistribution of time & effort. But it’s nice
Illustrated break-downs of how common objects work ....
Illustrated break-downs of how common objects work . Currently featuring a mechanical pencil, PEZ dispenser, retractable pen, and Zippo lighter.
The Inside Story of the Athens Music Scene
"How did the college football town spawn the B-52s, R.E.M., and Widespread Panic, to name just a few? The maestros and misfits who led Athens’s rise to one of the world's most influential and improbable music towns tell all."
Mass Cuts at Pace Gallery
The mega gallery cuts 100 workers and artists. Plus, a terrible movie about Kate Moss and Lucian Freud, and honoring the giant behind “Persepolis.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Recommending notable stories by Wyatt Williams, John Leland, Jonathan Weiner, Suzy Hansen, and Max Ufberg.
How to teach marketing
Trick title. There are at least three kinds of “marketing” we ought to be teaching: Most organized marketing instruction is about the first or second, with some online courses teaching hustle and hype, which I don’t count as marketing. My best work is about the third kind, the
What Happens When the Author Directs the Movie: How Robert Rodriguez Recruited Frank Miller to Co-Direct Sin City
In the nineteen-nineties, Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez first collaborated on a movie. No, it wasn’t From Dusk Till Dawn, the Rodriguez-directed crime-picture-turned-horror-comedy in which Tarantino plays George Clooney’s psychotic brother. It was an anthology picture
Art Movements: Meet MoMA's New Photo Chief
Also, the Asian Cultural Council awards $1.6M in grants to artists, and at least one sector of the art market is hot as hell.
Very Necessary Qualifications of a Great Storyteller
Toni Morrison once lamented that people have been taught to think of a book as a mirror, when it ought to be a door. All great storytelling — be it a novel or a poem, a film or a song — enchants us precisely because it swings open the door to a world distinctly other than our
“Descartes Against Humanity” and Other Games Designed by...
“Descartes Against Humanity” and Other Games Designed by Famous Philosophers .
Marjane Satrapi, "Persepolis" Author and Human Rights Fighter, Dies at 56
One of her friends said the artist and filmmaker “died of sadness” after her husband’s death just over a year ago.
Chipotlai Max is an AI agent that runs on “stolen...
Chipotlai Max is an AI agent that runs on “stolen compute” from Chipotle’s AI chat bot. They are looking to borrow from bots from Ikea, Expedia, Home Depot, and others.
Required Reading
This week: Esperanto on Duolingo, a Black Panther Party stud grandma, Arsenal and Africa, queer fish, the secret leftist history of Renaissance faires, and more.
The Life and Death of Sports Fans
Team Spirit is a wonderful short film for ESPN by Errol Morris about the funerals of die-hard sports fans. I love the Steelers fan laid out in a recliner under a Steelers blanket in front of a television with a Steelers game on as if “he just fell asleep watching the game”.
The Black Photographers Who Exposed My Own Brainwashing
An exhibition at The Getty gave me the peculiar feeling of peeking behind a curtain in my own house and discovering new things about a topic I thought I knew well.
The official trailer for season three of Silo . Looks...
The official trailer for season three of Silo . Looks like we finally get some origin story stuff (well, more than a brief scene at least).