Language is a container for thought and feeling that shapes the contents. The great danger is that we come to mistake the shape for the substance, reducing concepts and experiences we cannot name or contain to the words tasked with holding the spill of the ineffable. (This is
Joumana Asseily said she temporarily closed her gallery in Beirut amid evacuation orders last week
Olayami Dabls founded the MBAD African Bead Museum in 1994 to reintroduce African culture and healing into the Detroit community. 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
With fewer than 700 residents, Kingsbury has become a hub for cultural governance and sovereignty, largely thanks to advocacy led by arts organization Habitable Spaces.
The story of Lisette Model and other photographers who shaped the way we historicize social movements today.
How the warm rays of hope and healing enter the dark inner chamber of leaden loneliness through the unexpected cracks of kindness.
The Pittsburgh artist remained largely overlooked until the last decade of his life.
“What if we taught students to use AI critically, rather than insisting they ignore it or assume they’re using it to cheat?” asks college freshman Maximilian Milovidov . “Students will reach for these tools, whether universities ban them or not.”
His new exhibition "I Bring Home With Me" combines portraits with seating areas and a model of his studio, inviting visitors to stay awhile and get comfortable.
New web game that takes 2 min to play (and perhaps a lifetime to master?): Outsmart . “Five rounds, first to 3 wins. In each round, the higher bet wins. You have 100 total points, so bet wisely. Can you outsmart the machine?”
"We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come... We live everything as it comes, without warning."
“I was nine years old, and I felt like I lost that childhood,” the Whitney Biennial artist told Hyperallergic, reflecting on the US’s war in Iraq, the disappearance of his father, and the art he makes to process.
The Library of Congress recently discovered a copy of a “long-lost” film made in ~1897 by George Méliès called Gugusse and the Automaton (Gugusse et l’Automate), which “had not been seen by anyone in likely more than a century” and “was the first appearance on film of what
While most of us will pass by stray stones and piles of rubble without much of a second thought, Elizabeth Saloka sees tons of potential. From a couple of rock piles outside of her regular supermarket to crumbling curbs or demolished structures, she sifts through a variety of
GPS jamming and spoofing is becoming commonplace in war . “Ships in the region’s waters found their navigation systems had gone haywire, erroneously indicating that the vessels were at airports, a nuclear power plant and on Iranian land.”
The fish doorbell in Utrecht is back for another season! “Did you spot a fish? Press the Fish Doorbell! Then our lock keeper can let the fish through.”
Equipo de Arquitectura embraced the house's tropical surroundings in San Bernardino. 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 Paraguay, Architecture
On the occasion of the release of her latest book, The Beginning Comes After the End , Rebecca Solnit sat down for an interview with David Marchese of the NY Times. Here’s the video version : This is a great interview. Marchese’s first question is about how we find the
The NY Times went back through a century of women’s obituaries “to re-examine them with the benefit of distance — to see what was emphasized, what was minimized, what might have been left unsaid”. https://bsky.app/profile/prisonculture.bsky.social
"And it is so simple... You will instantly find how to live."
"Why did a group of 15 skiers take a risky route on a dangerous day?"
This hand-painted stop motion animation recalls the textures of a family home demolished to make way for a widened road - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
DC’s “Jeffrey Epstein Walk of Shame,” a major ruling on copyrights for AI art, Israel-US strikes damage a historic site in Tehran, exhibitions to visit in Los Angeles this month, and more.
Is mathematical beauty real? Or is it just a subjective, human ‘wow’ that is becoming redundant in an AI age? - by Rita Ahmadi Read on Aeon
Endless, unlimited and more. These are building blocks of capitalism. Starbucks knows that they can’t get you to drink three coffees every morning, but their stock price is built on the idea that they can continue to get more customers and make more money from each one. The
Image by Walter Crist As far as enthusiasm for board games goes, no continent has yet outdone Europe. Its advantage could lie in the highly developed culture of low-cost leisure evident in quite a few of its societies; it could also owe to the fact that board games seem to have
“Good evening,” said Alfred Hitchcock to the television viewers of America on March 25, 1959. “Tonight I’m dining at my favorite club. There are many advantages here. As you can see, informality is the rule. There is also the stimulation of intellectual companionship without