The humorist Sandra Tsing Loh once described her generational cohort as “today’s young, highly trained, downwardly mobile professionals: ‘dumpies.’ We’re just emerging from years of college only to learn that there are no jobs available for people with our advanced
This week: pothole mosaics, mosque demolitions in India, Yazidi cultural reclamation, remembering Alice Wong, vocal fry, “American Gothic” drag, and much more.
We’re in a time where the act of imagining a better world is considered a threat to society.
In this week’s art news, 15 women artists over 40 get their due, Robbie Williams tries furniture design, and more.
From the disruptive nonsense of Santacon to Kwame Brathwaite’s “Black is Beautiful” movement, here’s what to see or stream.
I Wool Survive featured pieces made with wool from the world’s “first flock of gay sheep.”
What began as a conversation among a handful of artists has grown into a decentralized creative action, spanning more than 600 events across the country.
“The darkness surrounding my studio has its own magic.”
This curated selection of 13 Indigenous short films features stories of resilience, inspiration, and hope.
Animals, architecture, celestial phenomena and more merge with vibrant patterns in kaleidoscopic illustrations. Yohann Azancot, who works as YoAz, focuses on repetition, color relationships, and maximalist compositions in his digital works. Drawing on the legacy of 1960s
Anyone who keeps an eye on Hollywood knows — indeed, has been ever more frequently and anxiously informed — that the theater business is in trouble. If fewer of us than ever have been going out to the movies, one reason must have to do with the easy availability of home
"The more you can perceive, the more choice you will have about how to respond."
I’m headed out on an unexpected trip this afternoon, to attend the funeral of Dr. Steve Feller, who was my advisor in college and to whom I owe a great deal. I talked about Doc, as all his students called him, on this podcast with Craig Mod several years ago. From the
Laveuve is known for his meticulously sculpted miniatures rendered in 1/24 and 1/35 scale. 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 Simon Laveuve’s
Goro Obata went to the woods because he wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if he could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when he came to die, discover that he had not lived. In the mountains of Hokkaido, Goro Obata traded
Stigler’s law of eponymy : “No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.” Stigler’s law is itself an example of Stigler’s law. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
"In the early 1980s, in Tucson, activists and religious leaders joined forces to protect refugees at the U.S.-Mexico border. Their collaboration galvanized the Sanctuary Movement."
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
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
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.
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
"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.