The competition saw its highest-ever number of entries this year. 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 Bats, Spiders, and Slime Molds Make the Close-Up
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and illustrator Mona Chalabi’s new book is about wealth inequality in America. Ten Lives: How What We Have Shapes Who We Are ( Amazon ) follows ten people with ten different incomes, from the bottom 10% to the top 10% and everything
Great title for an article about London’s invasive parakeet population: The Pollycrisis . “Do we want tens of thousands of Himalayan parrots squabbling all over our cities?”
Genser's undulating abstractions evoke marine swells, reefs, and the topography of the sea floor. 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 Amy Genser’s
The ebook of The Knot is on sale today for less than $5 in the US. Thanks for checking it out. Also, here’s a preview of the three-book holiday bundle. It’s limited to the first 170 folks.
This residency at the U-M Stamps School, in partnership with the U-M Museum of Art (UMMA), offers artists a $20,000 honorarium, housing, studio space, and a culminating exhibition in UMMA’s prominent Stenn Gallery.
The NY Times recently asked 100 scientists from across dozens of disciplines: “What is a big unanswered question in your field?” Here are some of their questions that caught my eye: 4. When and where did the cognitive capacities that made language, mathematics and complex
The Bayeux tapestry, a new biography of Edward Hopper, The Met's exhibition catalogue on Krasner and Pollock, what architecture is, and more
“There was not a single outlet, institution, or gallery that wanted to get behind this thing,” the artist told Hyperallergic about his new, six-hour performance piece.
Another banger from neal.fun: Battle Draw . Sort of an open world tower defense “game”?
"Fraudsters have long counterfeited high-end wine. Now they are coming for the bottles on your supermarket shelves."
"Tom Lee sat through all 18 days of the would-be guru’s trial."
"A teenage boy went into surgery for a broken arm and emerged with brain damage. His mother was determined to figure out what had happened."
Roshi Joan Halifax is an original, generous, gritty and profound Buddhist teacher. How does she look back on her life? - by Ben Daitz Read on Aeon
An interview with the Pulitzer Prize winner, Lori Waxman on bringing sexy back in Chicago, stolen Picasso prints found, and the problem with clouds.
"A mixed-age permaculture school in Mexico is showing how an education based on autonomy and care prepares students better for life."
When an organization is struggling, it’s tempting for the boss to blame the team. I’m not sure the evidence supports this. After all, other similar organizations are thriving–drawing from precisely the same labor pool. Sure, it’s easier to be a coach if Michael Jordan is on
A journalist paid Henri Matisse a visit not long after he’d painted The Red Studio in 1911. “I like it, but I don’t completely understand it,” the artist is quoted as admitting of that latest work. “I like it, but I don’t know why I precisely painted it this way.” The painting
Willy Van Mechelen was one of the most celebrated police officers in Belgian history, responsible for solving infamous kidnappings, robberies, and murders. Then Antwerp’s lucrative drug trade came calling.
“There comes Poe with his raven,” wrote the poet James Russell Lowell in 1848, “like Barnaby Rudge, / Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.” Barnaby Rudge, as you may know, is a novel by Charles Dickens, published serially in 1841. Set during the anti-Catholic
“The crisis is the system that we’re in,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning data journalist and artist says in an interview with Hyperallergic about her first book, “Ten Lives.”
In a joint commission by MASS MoCA and Pioneer Works in collaboration with producer Alex Cook, the recent music video is an atmospheric mini-epic. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as
Watch the Sun’s atmosphere pulse and flow in extreme UV . Images are from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory and “conformed, repaired, graded, blended, rescaled & retimed” by Seán Doran, whose video work is always incredible. It would be great to see this in IMAX or some other
The Met Museum’s “Chasing Clouds” is a pleasing romp through the technical problem of capturing clouds at photography’s beginning.
The most intense shoe salesman you’ll ever meet , a CBS News report by Charles Kuralt from 1983 about a “champion” shoe salesman.
From Willem de Kooning’s miserable nudes to Alexandra Barth’s hot and bothered architecture, sex is in the air in Chicago.
A review of an ancient Chinese ink painting takes an art critic on a journey through his own past.
Tattooed with verdant foliage, the central figure in Kelly Sinnapah Mary’s portraits emerges from the plant life that surrounds her. 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
Hundreds had urged Ohio State University to remove Les Wexner's name from campus buildings over his connections to Jeffrey Epstein.
I love Taiwanese artist Kuang-Yu Tsui ’s 1997 conceptual art piece The Welcome Rain Falling From the Sky but I couldn’t really tell you what it means. Something about the way people are bombarded with advertisements for consumer goods? I also couldn’t help but think of the iOS
Seven suspects were arrested in connection with the theft of the prints from L’Amandier restaurant in the south of France.
"Future visions tend to organize around narratives of gain or loss, dystopia or utopia. But what of the neutral position?"
Award-winning photographer Stephen Voss is making a book about the world’s largest data-center hub in Northern Virginia . “Forests have disappeared. Empty fields have become enormous buildings.”