The world ended in the nineteen-sixties. Or rather, one world ended in the nineteen-sixties and gave way to another, a transition personified by no human beings more clearly than the Beatles. “They are lightning rods for so much that makes the sixties a revolutionary decade,”
It’s hard to imagine that the space-crazed general public needed any help getting worked up about astronauts and NASA in the early ’60s. Perhaps the wild popularity of space-related imagery was in part what motivated NASA administrator James Webb to create the NASA Art Program
This is a wild story: The Scientist Who Lived with Dozens of Children from the Pacific Islands . “I realized I’m in the middle of a pedophile operation that has been run out of the N.I.H. by a Nobel laureate for thirty years.”
The inaugural edition of the sprawling yet rigorous exhibition examines the labor, regulation, extraction, and repair of our shared systems.
“Scientists have found that people are being exposed to more toxins than previously known, and beyond damaging lungs, wildfire smoke may affect hearts, brains and other organs .” (Research is preliminary & ongoing but sheesh…)
The museum sues to retrieve a piece stolen in 1961, Dean Millien’s aluminum-foil animal sculptures, and more.
The Biennale’s decision to exclude “Taiwan” from the pavilion’s official name “is a threat to freedom of expression and the global art community,” the artists said.
"It’s more about not discarding what might be considered unwanted, but instead finding some use for it," says the artist. 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
In “The African Kingdom of Gold,” Barnaby Phillips explores how British colonial forces plundered the Asante people and expertly traces the stolen artifacts’ afterlives in museum storage.
The SVA faculty union called on leadership at the New York institution to work with its community to address the impact of budget reductions.
Portuguese photographer Rui Santos captured this shot of the recent solar eclipse. Stunning. Here’s what makes this shot look a little different from other eclipse photos; from APOD : Usually the solar corona appears white, and to some observers the corona of last week’s
How to make a good Star Wars movie for once . “Stop making stuff that’s so self referential and start focusing on projects that once again are bringing things from the outside and putting them in a Star Wars container.” Fan service is bad storytelling.
And also a trailer for season 2 of Star Wars: Ahsoka . Huh. Lots of Anakin, but where are the space whales?
Trailer for VisionQuest , the third leg of the Wanda/Vision/Agatha trilogy. Huh. “Ultron! Human avatars only!”
"Ever since that monologue—you know the one—everyone knows who the legendary scene-stealer is. Still, his appetite for taking risks means he’ll never stop surprising us."
"For me, paintings represent an attempt to grasp a 'something' that for some reason deeply moves me, agitates me." 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 Bourgogne, they’ve been recording grape date harvests since 1354. This year’s harvest set a record for earliest start: Aug 8. “From 1354 to 1987 the average start was 28 September. Since 1988 it runs 13 days earlier.”
"An ambitious young couple, a multimillion-dollar swindle and the sting that brought them down."
Post-pandemic vaccination rates of US kindergarteners continue to fall and “nonmedical exemptions” based on “personal or religious beliefs” jumped 0.8% in just 1 year.
The filmmaker invites visitors to move and reposition the screens in her four-channel video at Leslie-Lohman, an ever-evolving mosaic of trans performances and dreamscapes.
The bronze sculpture depicts the notorious former Secretary of Homeland Security in full “ICE Barbie” gear with her favorite horse, regrettably named “Iceman.”
Whoa, Columbia House (12 cassettes for 1¢) is finally going out of business after 71 years and several pivots (records to reel-to-reel to 8-tracks to cassettes to CDs to VHS to DVDs to Blu-ray).
PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel has spoken publicly on a variety of issues from contrarian entrepreneurship to technical stagnation to geopolitical struggle. Lately, he’s drawn more attention with extended remarks on what would seem an unexpected subject: the Antichrist, a
Over a 22-year period, Green illustrated final requests ranging from pizzas and lobster to pies and KFC cartons. 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
The area known as Tornado Alley continues to shift eastward (from Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas to Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin) due to “a warming climate that helps transport warmer and more-humid air farther north and east than in the past”.
"The lives that slither and scurry beneath the soil’s surface are vital for ecological health: now we can listen in to them."
Plus: Dean Millien's aluminum-foil animal world, another museum heist in Europe, and the architect leading a new Chinese vernacular.
Early feminists like Mary Astell and Catharine Macaulay refused their male peers’ advice to remain polite in debate. Why? - by Geertje Bol Read on Aeon
Oh, the places you'll go when you say yes.