A Natural History of William Kentridge’s Studio
Let it be said, the studio is a safe space for stupidity. A space where impulses can be given the benefit of the doubt.
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What You Can’t Miss at Upstate Art Weekend
The art extravaganza in New York’s Hudson Valley and Catskills is back with a retrospective of Betty Parsons, a tailgate-style exhibition, living sculptures, and more.
‘PLEASE’ Is Anna Mantzaris’ Unhinged Comedy About Desperately Wanting Love
"Please don't let me die alone." 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 ‘PLEASE’ Is Anna Mantzaris’ Unhinged Comedy About Desperately Wanting Love
Trump Is Coming for the Architecture Biennale
Modigliani's "indecent" nude fetches $63.9M, the National Gallery of Art gets a major contemporary art gift, and more industry news.
“Although fleeting, [sports] have the enduring power to...
“Although fleeting, [sports] have the enduring power to inspire . For a few moments or a few days, divisions crumble, replaced by the beauty of kinship.”
Deep dive: An interactive introduction to the terrific...
Deep dive: An interactive introduction to the terrific experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt .
Criterion’s Massive Stanley Kubrick Box Set
Good god, The Complete Kubrick from Criterion. Collected here for the first time are Kubrick’s thirteen features and three shorts, all restored in 4K, with their original soundtracks alongside the 5.1 mixes, restored and remastered; over twenty-five hours of interviews,
Required Reading
This week: Scott Burton’s last sculpture, remembering Lebanese environmental activist Mona Khalil, AI slop in art journalism, NYC’s rollerskating queer icon, and more.
Middle of Somewhere
"One remote highway in Nevada links far-flung communities that attracted settlers for generations. Why are some still drawn there today?"
A $90,000 Graduate Fellowship for Immigrants & Children of Immigrants in the Visual Arts
The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans supports immigrants & children of immigrants in MFA, MA, PhD & other graduate programs.
Richard Tsao's "Sanuk" Art
In an interview with Hyperallergic, the artist known for his "Flood Room" paintings compares his decades-long practice to "the need for food."
A Visual Cacophony of People, Places, and Things Fill Chris Millar’s Mixed-Media Paintings
Millar's meticulous mixed-media works conjure enigmatic contraptions and look-and-find books. 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 Visual Cacophony of
Apple Just Raised Prices. But Deals Are Still Available.
Apple raised their prices on their laptops, iMacs, and iPads today due to the high cost of memory (driven by AI demand). The Macbook Neo’s price went up $100 with most other machines getting a $200-500 bump. But those prices have yet to take effect at Amazon, where Apple
2000-Year-Old Roman Amphitheatre Hosts World Cup Watch Party
Fulfilling the purpose for which it was built almost 2000 years ago, football fans packed the Roman Theatre of Amman to watch the Jordan v Algeria World Cup match. I don’t know whether Roman rulers, builders, and architects envisioned their works would remain standing & useful
The Mars Delusion
"Establishing a human colony on Mars is fraught with risk. Why are so many people obsessed with achieving it?"
Reset: Hat
This portrait of a life reimagined is a meditation on identity, happiness and the balance between freedom and conformity - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Victory for Claire Valdez
The artist and union organizer sweeps the NYC primary, and what makes an antiquities looter loot?
Who are the fire-tamers?
From remote farmhouses to oncology clinics, a secret world of French healers works in parallel with conventional medicine - by Susanna Crossman Read on Aeon
Curiosity as Compassion: A Conversation with Susan Orlean
Why it's important to cultivate resilience and curiosity as a writer.
Standby –> Intervention
Look around the room you’re in. There are dozens of electrically powered devices, each waiting for you to request their assistance. A toaster, six lights, an oven, the ice maker, stereo, TV, microwave… It’s a very long list. Silent and ubiquitous. Of course, electricity didn’t
The Great Moon Hoax of 1835: Where “Fake News” Began
Thinking back to the many childhood grocery-store trips made with their parents, Americans of a certain age will remember nothing so vividly as the Weekly World News. It always stood out on the checkout stand’s impulse-buy rack, in part because of its adherence to stark yet
When The Surrealists Expelled Salvador Dalí for “the Glorification of Hitlerian Fascism” (1934)
Image by Carl Van Vechten, via Library of Congress and Wikimedia Commons We may be conditioned to offering an opinion at the push of a button, but before venturing on the question of whether we can, or should, separate the art from the artist, it seems ever prudent to ask,
Kurt Vonnegut’s Life-Advice to His Children
Educate yourself, welcome life's messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs.
Good headline from the NYT for a change: President...
Good headline from the NYT for a change: President Narcissus and the Fetid Reflecting Pool .