In Bourgogne, they’ve been recording grape date harvests since 1354. This year’s harvest set a record for earliest start: Aug 8. “From 1354 to 1987 the average start was 28 September. Since 1988 it runs 13 days earlier.”
"An ambitious young couple, a multimillion-dollar swindle and the sting that brought them down."
Post-pandemic vaccination rates of US kindergarteners continue to fall and “nonmedical exemptions” based on “personal or religious beliefs” jumped 0.8% in just 1 year.
The filmmaker invites visitors to move and reposition the screens in her four-channel video at Leslie-Lohman, an ever-evolving mosaic of trans performances and dreamscapes.
The bronze sculpture depicts the notorious former Secretary of Homeland Security in full “ICE Barbie” gear with her favorite horse, regrettably named “Iceman.”
Whoa, Columbia House (12 cassettes for 1¢) is finally going out of business after 71 years and several pivots (records to reel-to-reel to 8-tracks to cassettes to CDs to VHS to DVDs to Blu-ray).
PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel has spoken publicly on a variety of issues from contrarian entrepreneurship to technical stagnation to geopolitical struggle. Lately, he’s drawn more attention with extended remarks on what would seem an unexpected subject: the Antichrist, a
Over a 22-year period, Green illustrated final requests ranging from pizzas and lobster to pies and KFC cartons. 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
The area known as Tornado Alley continues to shift eastward (from Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas to Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin) due to “a warming climate that helps transport warmer and more-humid air farther north and east than in the past”.
"The lives that slither and scurry beneath the soil’s surface are vital for ecological health: now we can listen in to them."
Plus: Dean Millien's aluminum-foil animal world, another museum heist in Europe, and the architect leading a new Chinese vernacular.
Early feminists like Mary Astell and Catharine Macaulay refused their male peers’ advice to remain polite in debate. Why? - by Geertje Bol Read on Aeon
Oh, the places you'll go when you say yes.
It’s not technically a tax. Taxes produce valuable public benefits, like medical research and parks. This is simply legal theft. Amazon makes nearly a billion dollars in profit from search ads. Every week. Each week, they sell merchants and publishers enough search-distorting
Who hasn’t pinned one of Saul Bass’ elegant film posters on their wall—either with thumbtacks above the dorm room bed or in frame and glass in grown-up environs? Or maybe it’s 70s kitsch you prefer—the art of the grindhouse and sensationalist drive-in exploitation film? Or 20s
“My inspiration for art doesn’t really come from the history of painting,” the artist told Hyperallergic in a 2013 interview, “it comes from the community of art as it is now.”
The cultural strategist and producer will work alongside curator and commissioner Diya Vij at the Department of Cultural Affairs.
The cultural strategist and producer will work alongside the curator and commissioner at the Department of Cultural Affairs.
A highlight of “Greater New York” at MoMA PS1, the artist’s remarkable sculptures made from the humble household material continue a practice he began as a child in Brooklyn.
“ Sand temperatures above 29°C now produce 95–99% female sea turtles instead of the historical 50–50 ratio, creating a reproductive bottleneck that could collapse populations within two generations.”
Mabona's sculptures highlight how the personal and cultural intersect alongside the distinctly South African sense of resilience. 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
A.J. Jacobs recently interviewed “the Papa Bear of Puzzling”, Will Shortz and came away with seven lessons he learned from him . “Creativity is usually more about evolution than revolution.”
Each painting is like an island awash with yearning, sending out a lighthouse signal into a fractured world.
Authorities say thieves made off with four artworks by Sicilian master Antonello da Messina in under five minutes.
Pritzker-winner Wang Shu’s design for the Ningbo Historic Museum reconciles China’s nostalgia with its desire for a shiny, avant-garde future.
Unwinding the Great Tech Power Grab . “If tech seeks to replace democratic governance itself, then the response has to be more democracy, not less.” Lots of related links in this piece too.
Wallace's glowing acrylic paintings feature crystals, enigmatic energy forces, starlight, and specters. 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 In