Turner and Constable Hit the Screen
The camera glides smoothly over landscapes of old England in a film that tries hard to dramatize the rivalry between the two masters.
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Nick Cave on Creative Work as an Instrument of Self-Forgiveness and the Courage of Hope in Cynical Times
In praise of "the necessary and urgent need to love life and one another, despite the casual cruelty of the world."
A Stoic’s Key to Peace of Mind: Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety
"There are more things ... likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality."
A search for answers
When Princeton University asked two directors to produce a marketing video, it became a work of art – and a time capsule - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Talking Raphael
One-on-one with the curator of a historic Raphael exhibition at The Met, Robert Therrien's oversized furniture, artists against nuclear weapons, and how to save yourself from AI.
The hypercurious mind
ADHD isn’t merely a dysfunction. It’s best understood as an impulsive motivational drive for novel information - by Anne-Laure Le Cunff Read on Aeon
Art Retreats in the South of France Offer Mirth, Myth, and Mystery
Threshold Art Retreats are for artists seeking creative exploration in an extraordinary setting at the Château de La Napoule. 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.
Xiaoze Xie Preserves a Growing Collection of Banned Books in Porcelain
Xiaoze Xie contends with the long legacy of censorship by casting banned books in porcelain. 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 Xiaoze Xie Preserves a
Redundancy and resilience
If it’s important, don’t ask the team to try harder. Instead, create the conditions for ordinary effort to produce redundant outputs that reduce crises. If quality is a problem, look at the system, not the people.
How Kraftwerk’s 22-Minute Song “Autobahn” Became an Early Masterpiece in Electronic Music (1975)
It takes about five hours to drive from Düsseldorf to Hamburg on the Autobahn. During that stretch, you can listen to Kraftwerk’s album Autobahn seven times — or if you prefer, you can loop its eponymous opening song thirteen times. For it was “Autobahn,” more so than Autobahn,
Watch Errol Morris’s Tune Out the Noise Free Online: A Documentary About the Financial Revolution That Transformed Investing
You can’t beat the market. That, at least, is the advice we all encounter early on when first we try our hand at investing. Homespun though it may sound, the idea has academic roots: the Efficient Market Hypothesis, as the economists call it, holds that the prices in any
Ursula K. Le Guin on Suffering and Getting to the Other Side of Pain
"All you have is what you are, and what you give."
Gardening and the Creative Spirit: 200 Years of Great Writers and Artists on the Rewards of Soil and Seed
Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, Oliver Sacks, Rebecca Solnit, Bronson Alcott, Michael Pollan, Jamaica Kincaid, and more.