Josh Kline Misses the Mark
Plus Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s first retrospective in 25 years, Larissa Pham’s debut novel about an artist and her predatory mentor, and the art collective reclaiming spirituality in art history.
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The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Patrick Radden Keefe
The New Yorker staff writer and author of the new book London Falling on running, writing in the morning, a life-changing childhood trip, and more.
The right answer
Engineers, scientists, and most of all, businesses are looking for the right answer. It’s such a common quest that we take it for granted, but it’s new, and it continues to cause stress. The right answer is productive. It’s resilient. And it’s a powerful ranking tool. The right
The Self-Balancing Monorail: A 1910 Train That Could Balance Without Falling
If monorails have a bad name, The Simpsons may be to blame. In an episode acclaimed for its hilariousness since it first aired 33 years ago, a huckster shows up in Springfield and convinces the town to build just such a transit system, which turns out to be not just
How the CIA Secretly Funded Abstract Expressionism During the Cold War
Considering the possibility of a truly proletarian art, the great English literary critic William Empson once wrote, “the reason an English audience can enjoy Russian propagandist films is that the propaganda is too remote to be annoying.” Perhaps this is why American artists
Pioneering Psychiatrist Donald Winnicott on the Qualities of a Healthy Mind and a Healthy Relationship
"A sign of health in the mind is the ability of one individual to enter imaginatively and yet accurately into the thoughts and feelings and hopes and fears of another person; also to allow the other person to do the same to us."
Unlike Josh Kline, I Choose New York
His new article taps into deep frustrations about affordability, but I throw my lot in with those making change, rather than moving out.
Thomas Bernhard on Walking, Thinking, and the Paradox of Self-Reflection
"There is nothing more revealing than to see a thinking person walking, just as there is nothing more revealing than to see a walking person thinking... Walking and thinking are in a perpetual relationship that is based on trust."
Elucidating the Esoteric with Hilma's Ghost
Through research and collaboration, a feminist art collective reclaims the place of alternative spiritualities in art history.
Kamrooz Aram Is Everywhere
Read Aruna D’Souza’s take on the Iranian artist. Plus, Duchamp is coming to MoMA, Upstate art this month, and more.
In “Discipline,” Larissa Pham Explores Predatory Art-World Mentorship
The art critic and former painter reinvents the genre’s well-trod territory in her debut novel, which makes heartbreakingly acute the consequences of teacher-student relationships.
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Made Human Again
Learning about Cha was like a secret revelation handed down among Asian American artists and poets. This show helped me appreciate her more clearly.
Limiting Not Just Screen Time, But Screen Space
"The internet has stopped being a place we visit—it’s now an environment we inhabit."
Forget the A.I. Apocalypse. Memes Have Already Nuked Our Culture.
“From our jokes and slang to the White House’s policy messaging, internet ‘brain rot’ has escaped our phones to take over … well, everything.”
A guide to which Apple chargers to use with which Apple...
A guide to which Apple chargers to use with which Apple products in order to charge the quickest . (Your charger’s wattage really matters when the device’s battery level is 0-50%. After that, less so.)
Beer With a Painter: Tom Burckhardt
“My favorite phrase lately is ‘mouthfeel,’ which is used in relation to food and drink,” said the East Village artist. “I’m thinking about that textural quality as a parallel to the paintings.”
The Search
"More than thirteen years ago, Araceli Salcedo Jiménez’s daughter, Rubí, was disappeared from a bar in Orizaba. Since then, Araceli has led an effort to dig up hundreds of clandestine graves looking for the victims of Mexico’s drug war. She is still digging."
Solar Eclipse From the Far Side of the Moon
This shot from Artemis II of the Moon eclipsing the Sun is one of the most breathtaking astronomical photos I’ve ever seen. Holy shit . Captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, this image shows the Moon fully eclipsing the Sun. From the crew’s
Trump Threatens to Wipe Out Iranian Civilization
The president's threats to destroy the Islamic regime have escalated to include the entire population of Iran and the millennia of history and culture preceding it.
A Parade of Floating Artworks Honors Hieronymus Bosch in the Netherlands
From June 18 to 21, the Bosch Parade returns with an international fleet of artworks that will float down the Dommel. 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
I missed that author Tracy Kidder died a few weeks ago ....
I missed that author Tracy Kidder died a few weeks ago . Kidder wrote the excellent The Soul of a New Machine , which won a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize.
Hollywood, Ending is John Green’s forthcoming...
Hollywood, Ending is John Green’s forthcoming book, “a deeply observed novel about the tension between a public and a private life, and finding your safe someone to hold onto”.
Moffat Takadiwa’s Scrounged Sculptures Confront Africa’s ‘Colonial Hangover’
Takadiwa's sculptures made of "everyday consumer residue" are on view at Semiose in Paris through May 16. 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 Moffat
A Catalog of an Entire House/Life
In a period of four years, Belgian photographer Barbara Iweins took a photo of every single thing in her house, “from my daughters torn sock to my sons Lego, but also my vibrator, my anxiolytics… absolutely everything. 12,795 photos of 12,795 objects.” You can explore the
A Heron’s Antidote to Fear of Death
They didn’t imagine it, the dying dinosaurs, that they would grow wings and become birds, become the laboratory in which evolution invented dreams and the cathedral in which it invented faith. “There is grandeur in this view of life,” Darwin consoled himself as his beloved
Teenager Michael Haskell “ buys abandoned storage...
Teenager Michael Haskell “ buys abandoned storage lockers at bargain prices …with the aim of selling their contents for profit”. But: “Two years into his pursuit, he knows all too well that every locker tells a story, many of them bleak.”
The Hypercurious Mind
"ADHD isn’t merely a dysfunction. It’s best understood as an impulsive motivational drive for novel information."
Shoe Pop Dream Gaze , a three-hour playlist from...
Shoe Pop Dream Gaze , a three-hour playlist from Christina Hendricks’ all-vinyl DJ set. (You may remember Hendricks as Joan on Mad Men.)
‘The Queen of the Ghetto’ Gave New York’s Immigrant Community a Voice. A Century Later, It’s Re-emerging
Anzia Yezierska wrote from experience then worked hard to make sure her work found an audience. Then a new audience found her