Judy Baca Denies Misusing $5M Grant for Iconic LA Mural
The LA Times reported that 10 employees accused the activist and artist of using funds from a Mellon Foundation grant for personal benefit.
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The NY Times has added another daily crossword to the...
The NY Times has added another daily crossword to the line-up : the Midi . “The standard Times daily crossword, you see, is a 15×15 grid. The Mini is 5×5. The new Midi is 9×9, snug in between.”
Satellite’s Ring of Fire Solar Eclipse Photo Taken From Orbit
During the recent annular solar eclipse on February 17, the ESA’s PROBA-2 satellite captured this great shot of the Moon passing in front of the Sun. Cue up the Johnny Cash. Tags: astronomy · Moon · photography · science · Sun
Art Movements: New Curator at the Frick
Aaron Wile will be a senior curator at the institution. Plus, the Venice Biennale announces its full list, and the Bezoses are chairing the Met Gala (yay!).
In ‘The Fall-Off Is Inevitable,’ J. Cole Circles Back to the Beginning
A funeral scene, wedding, and childhood home videos. 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 ‘The Fall-Off Is Inevitable,’ J. Cole Circles Back to the
Required Reading
This week: how to make art with a full-time job, portraits of Black marronage, artists vs. algorithms, US men’s hockey team acts up (again), snow sculptures in NYC, and more.
Why Conservationists Are Making Rhinos Radioactive
"Rapid DNA tests, x-ray fluorescence guns, and other technologies are being deployed in the fight against wildlife trafficking."
David Driskell’s Gifts to Black Art
The artist and scholar spent decades championing Black artists through collecting, creating, and providing financial support through the Driskell Prize.
High Museum COO Resigns After $600K Disappeared
An internal investigation traced “financial irregularities” back to Brady Lum, who had served as the Atlanta art museum’s chief operating officer since 2019.
“ Eclipses have been connected with the fate of...
“ Eclipses have been connected with the fate of rulers since at least ancient Mesopotamia, around 4,000 years ago.” But more recently: “In 1581, Queen Elizabeth I of England made it a felony to use horoscopes to predict her death or her successor.”
Calculating the longest line of sight on Earth : 530km...
Calculating the longest line of sight on Earth : 530km (329 miles) between “an unnamed Himalayan ridge near the Indian-Chinese border and Pik Dankova in Kyrgyzstan”.
“ x86CSS is a working CSS-only x86...
“ x86CSS is a working CSS-only x86 CPU/emulator/computer. Yes, the Cascading Style Sheets CSS. No JavaScript required. What you’re seeing above is a C program that was compiled using GCC into native 8086 machine code being executed fully within CSS.”
Ali Akbar, the last newspaper hawker in Paris, has been...
Ali Akbar, the last newspaper hawker in Paris, has been awarded a knighthood by French president Emmanuel Macron. “Macron went on to refer to Akbar as ‘the most French of the French — a Voltairean who arrived from Pakistan.’”
A View From the Easel
“It’s a place to disappear and get lost in the process of doing.”
Why You’re More Likely to Develop AI-Psychosis than to Join a Cult
"Philosopher Lucy Osler on the insidious appeal of AI Chatbots."
Elizebeth Smith Friedman: The Codebreaker
The details of Elizebeth Smith Friedman’s remarkable career sound a bit outlandish when you list them all together: cracked thousands of codes and ciphers during WWI did the same in WWII, helping to foil Nazi spy rings and protect Allied supply ships chief cryptanalyst for
How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account ....
How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account . “The answer to why powerful people in some other parts of the world face consequences, while in America they rarely do, is that elite impunity is now an American national project.”
Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers (free...
Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers (free WSJ piece at MSN). “Last year the U.S. experienced something that hasn’t definitively occurred since the Great Depression: More people moved out than moved in.”
What It Takes to Grow: Pioneering Psychoanalyst Karen Horney on the Key to Self-Realization
"Self-knowledge... is not an aim in itself, but a means of liberating the forces of spontaneous growth. In this sense, to work at ourselves becomes not only the prime moral obligation, but... the prime moral privilege."
Raw Material: The Art and Life of Susan Kleckner
This exhibition at Haverford College’s Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery is the first comprehensive retrospective of the pioneering feminist, filmmaker, photographer, and performance artist.
Whimsical Beaded Sculptures by Amy Gross Meditate on Our Planet’s Tiniest Life Forms
"The health of the world we see is deeply dependent on the health of the tiniest elements." 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 Whimsical Beaded
How to Get Over Someone: A Strategy for Coping with Heartbreak Based on the Evolutionary History of Hiccups
Long before he became the world’s most beloved neurologist, Oliver Sacks was a twenty-seven-year-old medical resident on his first hospital post when an operation left one of his patients with an unstoppable hiccup. Already a bridge figure between medicine and literature, he
An Archive of Commercial Illustration (c. 1950-75)
Illustrator Zara Picken maintains an archive of commercial illustration from the mid-20th century . So much throwback inspiration here! Tags: illustration · Zara Picken
Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The...
Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses . “The letter…marks one of the most significant erosions of transgender civil rights in the United States to date.”
Meet the ‘Bop Artist’ Who Was Inspired by Dreams and Hosted Some Surreal Salons in Her Chicago Brownstone
Dizzy Gillespie said his friend Gertrude Abercrombie was able to translate the spirit of jazz music onto a canvas
March 2026 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists
Deadlines approaching! 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 March 2026 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists appeared first on
The Man Who Stole Infinity
"In an 1874 paper, Georg Cantor proved that there are different sizes of infinity and changed math forever. A trove of newly unearthed letters shows that it was also an act of plagiarism."
Love immortal
In pursuit of defeating death, Alan has dedicated his life to cryonics. He hopes to be defrosted together with his wife - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Koyo Kouoh’s Final Show
The Louvre gets a new director, the world’s largest sock monkey, and remembering artists we lost this week.
The presence of power
The Indian thinker Rammohun Roy believed that good governance must be close: distance made the British Empire cruel - by Shomik Dasgupta Read on Aeon
An Internet of Checkpoints
A mysterious YouTube video gave thousands of people a place to breathe. Then it vanished.
What Did the Instruments in Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights Sound Like? Oxford Scholars Recreate Them
Welcome to The Garden of Earthly Delights. You’ll find no angelic strings here. Those are reserved for first-class citizens whose virtuous lives earned them passage to the uppermost heights. Down below, stringed instruments produce the most hellish sort of cacophony, a fitting
How Medieval Cathedrals Were Built Without Science, or Even Mathematics
Science and engineering may be conflated to some degree in the public mind, but anyone who’s spent much time in an academic department belonging to one or the other of those branches of endeavor knows how insistently distinctions can be drawn between them. Bill Hammack, a
Is There a God? Stephen Hawking Gives the Definitive Answer to the Eternal Question
"The universe is the ultimate free lunch."