Angles of love
What is love to you? An artist focuses on the hands and gestures of his subjects as they reflect on this boundless question - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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Our phosphorescent world
This life-giving element, stored in rock and organic material, moves around Earth in an ancient cycle we have just broken - by Jack Lohmann Read on Aeon
Hard work and goodwill
The other day, Tom Cruise gave a long acceptance speech. But unlike every other speech of its kind, there were no notes. No rambling. No false starts. He did what he always does–he outworked everyone else. It must have taken weeks to write, rehearse and edit this performance.
J.R.R. Tolkien Expressed a “Heartfelt Loathing” for Walt Disney and Refused to Let Disney Studios Adapt His Work
Image via Wikimedia Commons I’ve just started reading J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit to my daughter. While much of the nuance and the references to Tolkienian deep time are lost on her, she easily grasps the distinctive charms of the characters, the nature of their journey, and
40 Years Later: Sade, “Promise”
"Promise" isn’t necessarily about love, or even about surrender, but about giving your heart over, repeatedly, and enduring the failures that come with the exchange.
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.
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