Listen to jazz trio The Commercialists play Vince Guaraldi’s A Charlie Brown Christmas live in a small club called The Estate in Milwaukee. That’s this afternoon’s chill work music sorted then. If you’re anywhere near Milwaukee this month, it looks like there are still tickets
An overdue MoMA show reminds us that Lam pursued his own dialogue with African and Afro-diasporic visual cultures, even as the Parisian avant-garde exoticized his heritage.
We Asked Critics From Authoritarian Regimes What They Wish They’d Known Sooner . “You cannot make authoritarian leaders the center of your narrative. You have to make the people the center of your narrative, and you have to be passionate about it.”
The Drawing Center’s Voice of Space has vast potential, but a lack of strong focus and commanding imagery makes it more earthbound than cosmic.
Myles Connor is one of the very few people alive to have come out ahead after lifting an artwork from the wall of a museum, as Anthony M. Amore explores in his new book.
A “particularly inventive” Rube Goldberg marble run maze . Lots of elements doing double duty. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
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In the exhibition curated by Raphael Fonseca, Li Yi-Fan will continue his longstanding exploration of image-generation technology and improvisational narrative.
A series of rooflines make room for mature trees, oriented around a courtyard. 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 Trung Tran Studio Incorporates
Since 2013, I’ve done a holiday gift guide that’s basically a curated roundup of stuff from the best gift guides I can find. I always do it a little bit differently from year to year, and last year I went with a simple list and it worked well. So I’m doing that again this year.
Colin Furze built a full-suspension bike using powerful magnets instead of shocks or springs. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
The Queens museum will waive entry fees for three years to coincide with its 50th anniversary.
A series of geometric candles with flutes, half-circles, and trapezoids merge the arcane and the contemporary. 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 For
Looks Like the Supreme Court Will Continue to Overturn the 20th Century . But: “It’s amazing how many of our problems today could be solved by a Congress that was willing and able to legislate in response to national problems.”
Hyperallergic's top exhibitions in the city that never sleeps, turmoil at the Lucas Museum, and the fragile state of funding for media and video arts.
"The story of Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital — the dominant political and economic institution of Albany, Georgia — is the story of American health care."
If you are struggling to get the word out, if customer traction is elusive, if you are always hustling for a little bit of attention, if it feels like you need to spend more money on promotion… It might be that you skipped the important part. Marketing isn’t hype. Marketing is
If you want to see the Mona Lisa in real life, your first thought may not be to head to the Prado. But according to a school of thought that has emerged in recent years, the Mona Lisa in Madrid has a greater claim to artistic faithfulness than the one in Paris. That’s because
From bull rides to military parades, the world transforms us in surprising ways. The best stories get close enough to document our transformation.
Marie Curie’s 1911 Nobel Prize win, her second, for the discovery of radium and polonium, would have been cause for public celebration in her adopted France, but for the nearly simultaneous revelation of her affair with fellow physicist Paul Langevin, the fellow standing to the
Our staff and contributors look back on a year in art, from museum reopenings to shows that make and remake history.
This is a pretty good optical illusion . If you’re not on your phone, it also works if you shake your head a little. (thx, caroline) Tags: optical illusions 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
A guide on how (and why) to quit Spotify . “I am extremely glad I [switched away from Spotify]; it’s been a minute since I’ve felt something approaching genuine delight in discovering a new tech service.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
"By treating economies as living systems, we can build financial frameworks that regenerate rather than exploit."