Highlights and Hidden Gems at Dumbo Open Studios
Works on paper were a highlight in the event’s 10th year — not to mention the impromptu conversations and artistic community.
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Joan Semmel & Rama Duwaji
MoMA PS1 opens its once-every-half-decade “Greater New York” survey. Plus, we interview the great Joan Semmel and NYC First Lady Rama Duwaji.
The Leaf Sheep Slug: The Animal That Eats Sunshine
This is an animal called the leaf sheep: It’s a species of slug that is partially solar-powered, like a plant. Leaf sheep are kleptoplastic organisms that steal chloroplasts from algae, store them in their bodies, and then can rely on photosynthesis for their energy needs:
Everyone Is Blaming AI for the Water Crisis. We’re...
Everyone Is Blaming AI for the Water Crisis. We’re Looking at the Wrong Culprit. “One drive to the work I do on the Colorado River used more than 20 times the water of everything I did with AI in 11 weeks.”
A Blockbuster Take on Ovid’s “Metamorphosis”
The Rijksmuseum exhibition raises questions about gender, sexuality, and transformation that it is not prepared to answer.
The Accursèd Alphabetical Clock . “This clock...
The Accursèd Alphabetical Clock . “This clock displays the current time alphabetically.” Totally deranged…I love it.
Criterion x Every Frame a Painting: The Edges of Wuxia
Every Frame a Painting’s Taylor Ramos & Tony Zhou are back with a video essay about pushing the boundaries of genre in Tsui Hark’s 1995 film The Blade . One reason filmmakers like to work in a genre is that it gives us a pre-made box: a set of expectations, tropes, and
Teaser Trailer for Silo Season Three
As I watched the teaser trailer for season three of Silo , I discovered that I am very much looking forward to this new season. July 3, 2026. Tags: silo · trailers · TV · video
Trials for a pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine :...
Trials for a pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine : “Nearly 90% of people whose immune systems responded to the vaccine were still alive up to six years after receiving the last treatment. The five-year survival rate for pancreatic cancer is around 13%…”
“ NASA’s Curiosity rover has detected organic...
“ NASA’s Curiosity rover has detected organic molecules on Mars , including chemicals widely considered building blocks for the origin of life of Earth.” And: “We think we’re looking at organic matter that’s been preserved on Mars for 3.5bn years.”
It’s Getting Harder to Spot AI in Contemporary...
It’s Getting Harder to Spot AI in Contemporary Publishing. And That’s Very, Very Bad. “The word salads that we might identify as AI today may not be the kind of machine-made writing that we will see tomorrow.”
ReciproCard : “Start by searching for your home...
ReciproCard : “Start by searching for your home library above to instantly see every free reciprocal agreement you qualify for.” Use this to have more options for Libby ebooks.
What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat
"For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters."
“ The Extrapolated Futures Archive is a...
“ The Extrapolated Futures Archive is a reverse-lookup for speculative fiction. Describe a situation you are facing, and find the SF stories that already worked through the implications.”
Stained Glass Objects by Pia Hinz Reflect the Contrast Between Strength and Fragility
The artist “questions our relationship to objects, their use value, and their narrative potential.” 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 Stained Glass
How to Crash
"I thought of the pinkish, folded gel which in its mysteries congeal all my memories and dreams, and how it had been thrust from a moving vehicle onto an English road with nothing to protect it but the back of my skull."
Dance Your Way to the Museum
The benefits of rave culture, Genesis P-Orridge's subversive mail art, Jean Shin’s memorial to the trees of a New York cemetery, and more.
The Wayfinders
The Marshall Islands’ first national soccer team discovers what “home” can mean—on a field in Arkansas.
Justice is geometric
Where centralised societies excel at extraction, African fractal systems allow for circulation, reciprocity and return - by Likam Kyanzaire Read on Aeon
The right sort of friction
If we remove impediments that are in the way of where our customers seek to go, they support us. But when we remove the friction that gives people traction on their journey, they flounder. Remove the hassles that people don’t care about, but celebrate the hassles that make it
Gandhi Writes Letters to Hitler: “We Have Found in Non-Violence a Force Which Can Match the Most Violent Forces in the World” (1939/40)
Image via Wikimedia Commons It must come up in every single argument, from sophisticated to sophomoric, about the practicability of non-violent pacifism. “Look what Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. were able to achieve!” “Yes, but what about Hitler? What do you do about the
The Greatest Documentary You’ve Never Heard Of: An Introduction to Wang Bing’s Nine-Hour Tie Xi Qu
The Chinese filmmaker Wang Bing’s ‘Til Madness Do Us Part, a documentary about a mental institution in Yunnan, runs three hours and 48 minutes. Beauty Lives in Freedom, on the life of imprisoned artist Gao Ertai, is five and a half hours long; Dead Souls, on the survivors of a