Mamdani Votes Early at The Met. What Other NYC Museums Are Polling Sites?
"It only took five minutes," said the NYC mayor in a social media video. More museums and cultural institutions across the city serve as early voting sites.
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Ten of the most bizarre films and their posters, as...
Ten of the most bizarre films and their posters, as chosen by Eternal Family . I linked to Eternal Family recently and this is a good guide to some of their weirdest stuff.
Dreamy Digital Illustrations by Rebecca Zwanzig Tap into Art History and Nostalgia
The Portland-based artist's lush gradients are inspired by a love for oil painting. 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 Dreamy Digital Illustrations by
You Finally Got a Wikipedia Page. Then It Vanished
"Every day, Wikipedia biographies of living people are flagged for deletion because the subjects are not 'notable' enough. How do these poor souls take the news?"
John Dilg’s Down-to-Earth Reverence
The tranquility of his views, the closeness of his tones, and the evenness of his light bespeak his continual wonderment at existence.
How Tree Rings Challenged the Myth of American...
How Tree Rings Challenged the Myth of American Wilderness . “When one revisits colonial accounts of North America, one finds a striking amount of evidence that Native Americans set fire to the landscape.”
NASA’s Perseverance Sets Off-World Record for Total Distance Driven
According to NASA, the Perseverance rover has driven just over 28 miles on the surface of Mars, making it the vehicle that has driven the farthest distance outside of Earth . On Oct. 11, the rover’s odometer reached 28.10 miles (45.22 kilometers), eclipsing the record of 28.06
Bob Dylan on the Unconscious Mind and the Ideal Conditions for Creative Work
"People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them."
Walt Whitman’s Advice on Living a Vibrant and Rewarding Life
“Love the earth and sun and the animals… re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul…”
The Artist Who Dined Among Lions
California performance artist Bonnie Ora Sherk was a cultural trickster and proactive spoiler in the business of everyday life.
Simon Willison: “Battle Drones is heavily vibe coded —...
Simon Willison : “Battle Drones is heavily vibe coded — I’ve reviewed almost none of the code, and it’s built in a language (TypeScript) that I’ve hardly used myself.” There’s a French steampunk version too.
Scott Kahn Invokes Dreams and Liminality in Atmospheric Landscape Paintings
Compelling edges, horizons, shadows, and disappearing paths prompt us to question whether we can truly comprehend what we see. 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.
This exhibition of ukiyo-e (woodblock prints) by Utagawa...
This exhibition of ukiyo-e (woodblock prints) by Utagawa Hiroshige at the Tokyo National Museum was great. Awesome to see these prints in person.
Winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026
London’s Natural History Museum has announced the winners of the 2026 Wildlife Photographer of the Year, a competition that has been going since 1965. You can see a gallery of all the winners on the competition website (and also places like The Guardian and The Atlantic .)
Wish You Were Here! Rose Sanderson’s Witty Postcards Conjure a Strange Reality
Playing with scale, Rose Sanderson renders scenes that evoke the Creature Features of early cinema. 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 Wish You Were
Benchma(r)king
"James Bridle experiments with combining their practical carpentry skills and the abundant theoretical knowledge of AI to build a chair."
How to Install an App on Your Commodore 64. “Oh, don’t...
How to Install an App on Your Commodore 64 . “Oh, don’t worry, you’ll just need to type in the code for that program. There’s an article explaining what MLX is, which you can read really quickly on page 93, and then you’ll find the code for it on page 94.”
Great art explained: Tamara in the green Bugatti
A very modern conception of womanhood: in the Jazz Age paintings of Tamara de Lempicka, women were bold, free and stylish - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
How to build real peace
From Colombia to Syria, I’ve seen that capitalist logic can’t help to rebuild postwar countries but cooperatives can - by Azize Aslan Read on Aeon
From Paris, In Solidarity
Surreal scenes from an art week amid protests, lessons from the NEA Four, and Kid Cudi’s Basquiat biopic.
Is our attitude up to us?
If the stakes are high enough and the duration you need to keep it together is short enough, can you control your response? Because if we can do it then, we can learn to do it now. Acknowledging that it’s a choice is difficult, because choices come with responsibility. “I’m not
Harry Houdini Died 100 Years Ago This Halloween: Was He Really Killed by a Punch to the Stomach?
This Halloween marks the 100th anniversary of the death of famed escape artist Harry Houdini. Today, most of us know more about the manner of that death than we do about any of the feats of escape artistry that made him famous in the first place. As the story goes, he’d
Hear an Hour of the Jazzy Background Music from the Original 1967 Spider-Man Cartoon
Ray Ellis had a six-decade career as a producer, arranger, and jazz composer. And while he’s best known for arranging music for Billie Holiday’s Lady in Satin (1958), he also enjoyed a long career orchestrating music for television. Working under a pseudonym “Yvette Blais” (his
20 Favorite Children’s Books from 20 Years of The Marginalian
“Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time,” E.B. White insisted. “You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They are the most attentive, curious, eager, observant, sensitive, quick, and generally congenial readers on earth.” Both as a reader
The Dark Wood of the Golden Birds: Margaret Wise Brown’s Lost Masterpiece about Mortality and the Meaning of Life, Newly Illustrated
In early September 1948, a year after she rewilded the landscape of literature with Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown watched the love of her life fade to black. Michael Strange, born Blanche Oelrichs, had cast an instant spell on Margaret — outspoken, sophisticated, and