Second Man Buried Under Notre Dame Identified as French Poet
Two years after his sarcophagus was discovered, archaeologists identified the remains of a 16th-century aristocratic poet credited with popularizing French-language sonnets.
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Second Man Buried Under Notre Dame
Identified as French Poet The second of two bodies buried in lead sarcophagi recovered from beneath the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris has almost certainly been identified two years after its discovery. Discovered during a preparatory dig to repair the fire-damaged church’s
Is the “Lion of Venice” Actually From China?
A new study traces the winged leonine artwork back to the Yangtze River basin, hypothesizing that it was likely a colossal, reassembled "tomb guardian.”
Kelli Morgan’s Fight to Champion Detroit’s Black Artists
The curator and scholar launched the Black Artists Archive to honor overlooked histories and affect change in the present.
Kelli Morgan’s Fight to Champion Detriot’s Black Artists
The curator and scholar launched the Black Artists Archive to honor overlooked histories and affect change in the present.
The Unsung Labor of New York’s Henna Artists
“I don’t think many people see henna as an actual art or service that is in demand or valued,” said 29-year-old henna artist Sabeen Marghoob.
Michigan State University Accused of Censoring Pro-Palestine Artwork
The university also canceled a major opening event, raising outcry among artists and curators.
A Sympathetic if Incomplete Portrait of Alberto Giacometti
Though it glosses over his misogyny, Michael Peppiatt’s biography reflects Giacometti’s uncanny ability to capture the energy of ancient art in a modern format.
What’s the Difference Between Private and Public Museums?
The answer to this seemingly straightforward question reveals a few common misconceptions about our nation’s institutions.
One Whale of a Meal Wins The 2024 Ocean Photographer of the Year Competition
A hungry marine giant was captured by Rafael Fernández Caballero, making him the 2024 Ocean Photographer of the 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
Can We Really See Art?
The longer I sat with the artworks in David Reed’s studio, the more I felt that I wasn’t fully seeing what was there.
Riva Lehrer’s Portraits Bring Out the Beauty in Difference
The artist has long been fighting for people with disabilities or marginalized identities, with sincerity, courage, and fierce love for the monsters in us all.
The Artistic Allure of Olympic Athletes
Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body sets its focus on issues that emerge from athletes being displayed as heroic on the world’s stage.
Serena Rios McRae makes hand-carved stamps out of pink erasers and recently...
Serena Rios McRae makes hand-carved stamps out of pink erasers and recently stamped all 185 erasers onto one sheet of paper . 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Bold Brushstrokes Overlap in Greg Breda’s Contemplative Portraits
Layering wide brushstrokes on synthetic silk, Greg Breda renders delicate, fragmented portraits. 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 Bold Brushstrokes
The Consolations of Chronodiversity: Geologist Turned Psychologist Ruth Allen on the 12 Kinds of Time and How to Be More Fully Alive
“I prefer the time of insects to the time of stars,” Nobel laureate Wisława Szymborska wrote in her lovely poem “Possibilities.” Our preferences, of course, hardly matter to time — we live here suspended between the time of insects and the time of stars, our transient lives
Meet UConn’s MFA Studio Art Class of 2027
This fully-funded three-year graduate program in Southern New England supports a broad range of art making, exemplified by the work of its newest students.
Mickey 17, a New Film From Bong Joon-ho
For his first movie since 2019’s Parasite, filmmaker Bong Joon-ho is coming out with a sci-fi dark comedy film called Mickey 17. The trailer is above and the synopsis from Wikipedia is: Wanting to get out of Earth, Mickey Barnes signs up to be an “expendable”: a disposable
The newest season of the Slow Burn podcast is about the rise...
The newest season of the Slow Burn podcast is about the rise of Fox News . “It’s this rare institution that hasn’t been around for all that long — it launched in 1996 — but has so clearly changed the country and all of us who live here.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
One Man’s Journey from State Prison to a Revered San Francisco Restaurant
"Even more importantly, Salazar believed in Thomas as a man—a good man."
Narsiso Martinez Exalts the Individuality of America’s Farmworkers in ‘Joyfully Grown’
On cardboard produce boxes, Narsiso Martinez portrays the people who really keep the American agricultural system running. 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
Every webpage deserves to be a place. Matt Webb’s cursor party feature...
Every webpage deserves to be a place . Matt Webb’s cursor party feature lets web visitors see other people’s cursors on his site. And they can chat with each other and share text highlights. “It should be everywhere. It’s how the web should be.” 💬 Join the discussion on
Huge study from The Economist about car bloat in the US. “For...
Huge study from The Economist about car bloat in the US . “For every life that the heaviest 1% of SUVs and trucks save, there are more than a dozen lives lost in other vehicles.” ‘Safety for me, danger for you’ is an American motto at this point. 💬 Join the discussion on
The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age
"Why are we letting algorithms rewrite the rules of art, work, and life?"
This Is the Secret System That Covers Up Police Misconduct — and Ensures Problem Officers Can Get Hired Again
"Behind locked drawers of file cabinets, in police departments all over California, sit documents no one is supposed to see."
El Bastón
To complete the perilous project his mother never finished, a filmmaker documents Indigenous resistance in war-torn Colombia - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
A New Book Chronicling the Artist-Designed Billboard Project For Freedoms Poses a Critical Question
Where do we go from here? For Freedoms is set to release its first-ever monograph, fittingly named after the query. 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
A next frontier for spam and scams
Please be on the alert for: Spam that includes your name, address, phone number and other personal details. Phone calls that are from human-sounding bots that pretend to be from friends or trusted brands. Job offers. Video mashups that include AI-generated people that seem to
The Longest Drivable Distance in the World: Discover the Ultimate Road Trip
No matter what country we live in, we’ve all fantasized about taking our own great American road trip, considering a variety of the infinitely many possible routes. The most obvious would be driving between Los Angeles and New York, a distance of 2,800 miles that would take a
John Waters’ RISD Graduation Speech: Real Wealth Is Life Without A*Holes
John Waters’ rollicking commencement speech at The Rhode Island School of Design offered up some good one-liners and a few pearls of wisdom, though phrased, quite naturally, in an irreverent way. Ready for some sage advice on what really counts as wealth? And what career