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50 Songs That Explain America. “The songs were chosen on...
50 Songs That Explain America . “The songs were chosen on the basis that they told me something, sonically or lyrically or emotionally or vibrationally, about America and the idea of America.”
The 🔥🔥🔥 New Social App: NPR Podcasts Comments Section on Spotify
{Ira Glass voice} On this week’s episode of This American Life , the story of middle schoolers too young for social media chatting in the comments section of NPR’s podcasts on Spotify. From the transcript : And it was just, like, gibberish. There was a bunch of new comments,
Shimmer: Dreaming the Posthuman
This thought-provoking exhibition at the Frist Art Museum explores human interconnectedness with the more-than-human world.
Red Moons and Lightning Illuminate Sarah Lee’s Uncanny Landscapes
Supple mountains cradled by lakes and forests are tinged with magical realism. 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 Red Moons and Lightning Illuminate
How to rescue an orphaned baby elephant. “The baby...
How to rescue an orphaned baby elephant . “The baby elephant needs a mother to run to. And the fact is that the mother is a 30-year-old Nigerian man right now.”
Jimbōchō Book Town
I visited Jimbōchō today, a neighborhood that’s home to more than 100 used bookstores. Many sell only Japanese books, but some of them have books in English or sell magazines, posters, or visual books that are interesting to browse no matter what language you speak. I visited
Emerson on How to Trust Yourself
"It is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
What Happens After Repatriation?
“Tide of Returns” investigates the histories and futures of handmade dolls repatriated to an Indigenous Australian community.
What Can Photographs Say in a World Full of Images?
An exhibition at the Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College examines how artists utilize serial configurations of pictures and text to prompt questions about seeing.
KnotChat: Nicole Walters
Nicole Walters is a bestselling author, a TV star, a community leader, a mom and a maker of magic. Here’s the conversation we did about The Knot. PS to celebrate the book, my publisher put the Kindle edition of This is Strategy on sale for $2 this week. CORRECTED LINK: Today at
Robert Eggers is doing Romeo & Juliet. “When it comes to...
Robert Eggers is doing Romeo & Juliet . “When it comes to dialogue, sources say that this adaptation will feature actors speaking in Elizabethan English (aka early modern English), with lines straight from the play.”
Britain’s last great airship
The remarkable engineering and tragic demise of the vessel that would end Britain’s dream to dominate the skies - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Ari Emanuel Doesn't Want to Hear the G-Word
The Frieze owner criticizes rapper Macklemore's pro-Palestinian statements, the overlooked artisans who built Ancient Egypt, and other stories.
Where a land ethic blooms
Caring for this planet entails decisions that are intimate, about our farms, our homes, our human and our wild neighbours - by Craig Maier Read on Aeon
Making Meaning, One Step at a Time: A Conversation with Earl Swift
Strong pacing and flow gets your reader to the finish line. The author of Up On Cove Mountain explains why they’re so important.
The Long, Strange History of Tarot Cards: From the 14th Century to Modern Times
We have any number of reasons for difficulty getting to sleep, not least worries about the future. This is hardly a recent phenomenon, and indeed practices meant to clarify the nature of events to come may be older than civilization itself. In fact, many of us moderns trust the
Responsibility, fault, blame and shame
They’re not the same. They (mostly) don’t even rhyme. People can evade responsibility by saying it’s someone else’s fault. They can take responsibility, even if it’s not their fault. In fact, being an adult involves taking responsibility for things that we could point out are
How to Memorize an Entire Chapter from “Moby Dick”: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Sometimes, when I can’t sleep, I mentally revisit the various homes of my childhood, wandering from room to room, turning on lights and peering in closets until I conk out. Turns out these imaginary tours are also handy mnemonic tools, as Vox’s Dean Peterson explains above.
Play Solitaire Alone Together. “It’s Windows 98...
Play Solitaire Alone Together . “It’s Windows 98 solitaire, but you can play with everyone else on the internet.” A little more social than solitaire, but not by much.
The Museum of Time-Based Art. “My idea for this site is...
The Museum of Time-Based Art . “My idea for this site is to build an exhaustive, authoritative compendium of every art project that uses time as part of the work.”
A Stoic’s Key to Peace of Mind: Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety
"There are more things ... likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality."
I can’t remember where I heard about this, but judging by...
I can’t remember where I heard about this, but judging by the trailer , Hope by Korean director Na Hong-jin looks pretty good.
The Met to Present First Major Felix Gonzalez-Torres Show in NYC in Decades
Scattered across the museum's permanent collection galleries, "The Spaces Between" brings together more than 40 works from the late conceptual artist.
An Unequal Artist Legacy Field Defines Who Gets to Be Remembered
A new report from the Joan Mitchell Foundation highlights deep structural issues affecting legacy work across the arts.
When’s the Last Time You Cried?
For New York magazine, Emily Gould writes about her quest to cry again: I Miss My Tears ( archive ). I looked over at my husband, Keith, whose eyes were red, and felt … nothing. Not a clench in my chest, not a pang, not an incipient burning behind my eye sockets. It wasn’t
Frieze Owner Ari Emanuel Criticizes Macklemore Over Pro-Palestinian Comments
The Hollywood billionaire also objected to using the term "genocide" to describe Israel's actions in Palestine.
The Unsung Craftspeople Who Built Ancient Egypt
A new publication reflects a growing interest in the lives of the makers behind the civilization’s arts and crafts, long marginalized and erased by mythologized depictions of the ancient world.
Chimpanzees use tools to collect food and deliberately...
Chimpanzees use tools to collect food and deliberately teach other chimps (often their offspring) to use them for ant dipping, algae fishing, and termite fishing.
Remembering Lucia Laguna, Rodrigo Cass, and Nelson Garrido
This week, we honor a Brazilian painter inspired by nature and another who drew on Catholicism, and a Venezuelan photographer who challenged power.
Can You Draw a Perfect Circle?
This maddening little web toy on vole.wtf challenges visitors to draw a perfect circle and judges them on how well they do. After dozens of tries with a mouse, I could only manage 92.9% perfection (which looks more like 80% tbh). Then I tried it on a touchscreen and got much
The Three Elements of the Good Life
To be a true person is to be entirely oneself in every circumstance, with all the courage and vulnerability this requires. And yet because a person is a confederacy of parts often at odds and sometimes at war with each other, being true is not a pledge to be a paragon of