Philadelphia Sues Trump Administration Over Removal of Slavery Exhibits
The city is pursuing legal action after artwork and panels about the history of slavery were removed from a historic park.
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Ellen Harvey’s Elegy to Lost Places
Her painting series is a record of those grand and mundane places lost to time or other occurrences, whose presence we continue to mourn.
I thought this said “Winamp” and I got really excited....
I thought this said “Winamp” and I got really excited.
A Millennia-Long Fascination With Armor
The Worcester Art Museum’s reopening of its armor galleries goes far beyond the romance with medieval Europe.
Daft Punk Deep Cuts DJ Set
From Taner’s Funk Kitchen, a 30-minute set of smooth/chill deep cuts from Daft Punk . As noted in the description, this mix is less of a club vibe and more of a chill listening party. The DJ is using a Digital Vinyl System (DVS) to play/mix the songs. I’d never heard of this
Personal Identities Pair with Sartorial Expression in Paintings by Glenn Hardy Jr.
How are identities shaped, perceived, and negotiated through appearance? 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 Personal Identities Pair with Sartorial
A review of Sven Beckert’s Capitalism. “‘No religion, no ideology, no philosophy,...
A review of Sven Beckert’s Capitalism . “‘No religion, no ideology, no philosophy, has ever been as all-encompassing as the economic logic of capitalism,’ Beckert claims, defining it as ‘the ceaseless accumulation of privately controlled capital.’”
Nice piece about the forgotten queer artist Marlow Moss, whose work and...
Nice piece about the forgotten queer artist Marlow Moss , whose work and influence on Piet Mondrian’s work is being reevaluated. “It is now widely recognised in the art world that it was as much Moss who influenced Mondrian as the other way round…”
The Courage to Be Yourself: E.E. Cummings on Art, Life, and Being Unafraid to Feel
“No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life,” wrote the thirty-year-old Nietzsche. “The true and durable path into and through experience,” Nobel-winning poet Seamus Heaney counseled the young more than a century later in his
A Chinese factory mistakenly stitched a frown on a Year of the...
A Chinese factory mistakenly stitched a frown on a Year of the Horse plush toy and it became a surprise hit. Meet the ‘Cry-Cry Horse’ , the perfect mascot for 2026.
Jeff Koons’s Reflective Sculptures Mirror the One Percent
When I picture where Koons’s sculptures belong, I think about Trump’s plan for a 90,000-square-foot ballroom, and the art collectors who funded it.
Marvin Heinzel Gets Up-Close and Personal with Characterful Avians
The Brandenburg-based photographer captures feathered personalities in detail. 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 Marvin Heinzel Gets Up-Close and
How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota, including donating money, hassling...
How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota , including donating money, hassling ICE-supporting businesses, and “Get Ready For This Bullshit to Come to You”.
Hannah Arendt on Love and How to Live with the Fundamental Fear of Loss
“Love, but be careful what you love,” the Roman African philosopher Saint Augustine wrote in the final years of the fourth century. We are, in some deep sense, what we love — we become it as much as it becomes us, beckoned from our myriad conscious and unconscious longings,
Two Artists Consider How Chicago Shapes Its Youth in ‘World in My Eyes’
How do children thrive amid turmoil, whether political, cultural, or personal? 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 Two Artists Consider How Chicago
Today, Minnesotans are striking (“no work, no school, no shopping”), protesting, and...
Today, Minnesotans are striking (“no work, no school, no shopping”), protesting, and marching in response to the ICE invasion. “We are a northern state, and we are built for the cold, and we are going to show up…”
A Somali-American Artist Speaks Out
Minnesota art orgs take a stand against ICE, Senate rescues arts funding, and what exactly is the "2016 trend"?
Computers can’t surprise
As AI’s endless clichés continue to encroach on human art, the true uniqueness of our creativity is becoming ever clearer - by Richard Beard Read on Aeon
Bent incentives
Who is Nicole Bennet and why does she keep calling me? A few times a day, a voice pretending to be someone named Nicole rings my cell, and in a petulant, entitled voice, insists she’s calling me about a loan that I never applied for. I’ve never interacted, I block each number,
Discover the World’s First Earthquake Detector, Invented in China 2,000 Years Ago
The Renaissance did not, strictly speaking, occur in China. Yet it seems that the Middle Kingdom did have its Renaissance men, so to speak, and in much earlier times at that. We find one such illustrious figure in the Han dynasty of the first and second centuries: a statesman
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
In this edition: gambling’s grip, a story of plumes and poachers, bemoaning American tourists in Rome, a magical history tour, and a fake poultry flinger.
Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: The Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity
"The mind narrates what the nervous system knows. Story follows state."
Kafka’s Remarkable Letter to His Abusive and Narcissistic Father
"It is, after all, not necessary to fly right into the middle of the sun, but it is necessary to crawl to a clean little spot on earth where the sun sometimes shines and one can warm oneself a little."