16 Acts of Artistic Resistance Happening This Weekend
The exhibitions, performances, readings, and more are just a sliver of the more than 500 events in the nationwide Fall of Freedom series.
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Remembering Bill Ivey, Guy Cogeval, and Marilyn A. Zeitlin
This week, we honor artists, museum directors, politicians who championed art, and others.
A Good, Bad, and Ugly History of Parenting Gadgets
Designing Motherhood illuminates how design shapes diverse experiences of parenthood, from navigating fertility and conception to pregnancy, birth, and postpartum life.
Maurizio Cattelan Is No Duchamp
One elevated the prosaic. The other merely gilded the familiar.
Why Is DC’s Phillips Collection Selling Off Its Masterpieces?
The museum’s decision to deaccession works by Georgia O’Keeffe, Pablo Picasso, and more has come under public scrutiny.
Stan Douglas Conjures Histories That Might Have Been
Through his narrative art, Douglas reminds us that every story contains the potential for history to take another course.
Pastoral Landscapes Brim with Patterns in Luminous Paintings by David Brian Smith
Landscape painting is "re-envisioned through a hallucinatory, technicolor lens." 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 Pastoral Landscapes Brim with
Pizzastroika
"In 1990, in the last breaths of the Cold War, a delicious act of American subversion unfolded in Moscow. It’s long been forgotten. It shouldn’t be."
The Librarians
As part of the fascist war on “woke”, tens of thousands of books have been pulled from the shelves of libraries around the country over the past few years. On the front line are the nation’s librarians, “first responders in the fight for democracy and our First Amendment
NASA’s Perseverance rover scooped up a rock that might prove there was...
NASA’s Perseverance rover scooped up a rock that might prove there was life on Mars. But the planned return of that sample to Earth is endangered by the Trump regime .
Expand Your Art Career With a Graduate Degree From the University of Louisville
Every MFA or MA student receives a generous scholarship as well as financial support for travel, research, and creative activities.
If You Forget Me: Pablo Neruda’s Staggering (Un)breakup Poem
Love is a fire that takes two to keep burning, but one to extinguish — if the hearth of either heart is too damp with doubt, both wake up one day to find their hands cupping ashes. And yet when two people have loved each other and parted, the fire is forever embering between
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the...
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air. “The transit system is one of the greatest tools communities have to combat climate change and reduce emission. You can make a pretty immediate impact.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
“Geothermal is underdeveloped, and its upfront costs can be high, but it’s...
“Geothermal is underdeveloped, and its upfront costs can be high, but it’s always on and, once it’s set up, it is cheap and enduring.” Why the Time Has Finally Come for Geothermal Energy . 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Memory and Novelty Converge for Manuela Solano, Who Adopted a New Process After Losing Her Sight
"I’ve heard that memories change every time we revisit them," she says. "This means everybody faces the problem of remembering." 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
Rainy Day Jazz Vinyl Set. “Plenty of ballads, blues and heart-warming songs...
Rainy Day Jazz Vinyl Set . “Plenty of ballads, blues and heart-warming songs from Jazz artists across the ages for a cold, and rainy Sunday afternoon.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Can You Drive West to Lengthen the Sunset?
Two reasons why XKCD’s What If? series is so compelling: Even when an answer seems straightforward, the devil is in the details. And with respect to the details, Munroe does his due diligence. In this case , the answer to “what’s the longest possible sunset you can
Meticulously Crocheted Tiny Vessels by Jeremy Brooks Test the Limits of Clay
The artist challenges the limits of porcelain's elasticity. 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 Meticulously Crocheted Tiny Vessels by Jeremy Brooks
CDC officials confirm that the US is two months away from measles...
CDC officials confirm that the US is two months away from measles being considered endemic for the first time since 2000. “Elimination status is lost if the virus spreads continuously for 12 months.”
A Famed Street Photographer Chronicled What Christmas Looks Like Across America Over the Course of Decades
Lee Friedlander’s new book, “Christmas,” collects his work from all over the country on the topic of our sentimental and materialistic connection to the holiday
The Saudification of America Is Under Way. “Jamal Khashoggi’s plight and murder...
The Saudification of America Is Under Way . “Jamal Khashoggi’s plight and murder was a warning sign for the US, of the impending loss of freedom and censorship that would sweep the country.”
Darwin’s notebook
An animated interpretation of the story of the Indigenous people kidnapped from Tierra del Fuego and brought to England in 1830 - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
George Bell Served 24 Years in Prison for a Crime He Didn’t Commit. Now He’s Learning to Live Again.
"After a quarter century behind bars, he was exonerated for the 1996 crime and received the largest payout ever from New York City. But money can’t buy back all that time."
Kinds of stealing
Most cultures are built around the idea of private property. Grain is harvested once a year and stored for months. If someone steals the grain (which is difficult to securely lock up), it threatens the livelihood of the farmer and the stability of the community. By the time
An Introduction to Hilma af Klint: Once a Forgotten Painter, Now a Celebrated Pioneer of Abstract Art
If pressed to pick the most international art figure of the past dozen years, one could do much worse than the Swedish artist-mystic Hilma af Klint, despite her having been dead for more than 80 years now. As evidenced by the links at the bottom of the post, we’ve been
The Great Wave Off Kanagawa by Hokusai: An Introduction to the Iconic Japanese Woodblock Print in 17 Minutes
When woodcut artist Katsushika Hokusai made his famous print The Great Wave off Kanagawa in 1830 — part of the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji — he was 70 years old and had lived his entire life in a Japan closed off from the rest of the world. In the 19th century,
Maurizio Cattelan’s Golden Toilet Fails to Make a Splash
The work sold for $12.1 million after an awkward minute during which the auctioneer attempted to draw out more bids.
Klimt Painting Becomes Second Most Expensive Artwork Ever Sold
“Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer” sold at Sotheby’s for $236.4 million with fees.