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Test footage from a slime simulator game made by former...
Test footage from a slime simulator game made by former Epic Games employee Asher Zhu. You try to stay hydrated in the hot Tokyo summer by showering and drinking beverages from vending machines.
Corrective for a Broken Heart
“Life will break you,” Louise Erdrich wrote in her passionate insistence that “you are here to risk your heart.” It can happen with a shattering, or with a thousand small fissures, but the great paradox — the great salvation — is that every time it happens, you live to see you
The Most Important Thing to Remember About Your Mother
"It is not easy to give closeness and freedom, safety plus danger."
A list of chain restaurants whose names contain unusual...
A list of chain restaurants whose names contain unusual structures, presented in decreasing order of how appealing it would be to eat in such a structure . (White Castle, Waffle House, etc.)
Painterly Figures Entwine in Soojin Choi’s Ceramic Sculptures
Soojin Choi. creates intimate ceramic sculptures depicting a pair entwined in an unknottable embrace. 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 Painterly
Remembering Pat Steir
MoMA’s show on Frida and Diego misses the mark, the New School plans major layoffs, and John Yau stumbles upon two artistic beacons at Alexander Berggruen.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Showcasing stories from Megan O’Grady, Alexander Sammon, Alaina Demopoulos, Blair Braverman, and Jack Crosbie.
Catastrophe markets
Americans love to gamble. But placing bets on wildfires, floods and storms comes with serious moral and social costs - by Jamie L Pietruska Read on Aeon
What’s in the status bottle?
It’s often mislabeled. Sometimes the contents can make us ill, especially if we drink too much. Status is easy to sell. But despite how often people buy the promise, it rarely delivers.
When Soviet Youth Bootlegged Western Rock Music on Discarded X‑Rays: Hear Original Audio Samples
A catchy tribute to mid-century Soviet hipsters popped up a few years back in a song called “Stilyagi” by lo-fi L.A. hipsters Puro Instinct. The lyrics tell of a charismatic dude who impresses “all the girls in the neighborhood” with his “magnitizdat” and guitar. Wait, his
The Bird in the Heart: Terry Tempest Williams on the Paradox of Transformation and How to Live with Uncertainty
"We can change, evolve, and transform our own conditioning. We can choose to move like water rather than be molded like clay."
Frank Relle’s Photos Revel in Louisiana’s Otherworldly Swampland
"The swamp at two in the morning is not quiet; it is one of the loudest places I have ever been," Relle says. 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 Frank
Art Movements: A Canceled Biennale Show Finds a New Home
Gabrielle Goliath’s performance series, axed by South Africa for its Venice pavilion, will shine on, pro-wrestling meets contemporary art, a new hire for New York's forthcoming Hip Hop Museum, and more.
Frida-Mania Hits MoMA
A collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera’s costume designer, this exhibition is an irresistible marketing opportunity at best.
Ambiguity Reigns in Olaf Hajek’s Mysterious Illustrations
The Berlin-based illustrator renders dense, uncanny compositions that nod to Surrealist icons like Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7
New School Faculty React to Plans to Lay Off 15% of Workforce
"There's an air of anxiety," Carrie Hawks, an assistant professor of illustration, told Hyperallergic of the newly announced cuts.
Beacons in a Grim World
In concurrent exhibitions by Kevin McNamee-Tweed and Tajh Rust, we find two artists who keep looking and discovering, despite dark circumstances.
‘The Worst Neighbor Ever’
"He moved to the block promising a new bookstore. He brought a whole lot more than that. Now no one is quite sure how to describe what happened outside Quirky Books."
NYU Steinhardt Presents 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibitions
Part I: April 1–18, Part II: May 6–23. On view at 80WSE Gallery in New York’s Greenwich Village.
There’s an upside-down “H” on the...
There’s an upside-down “H” on the facade of a Frank Lloyd Wright building in Illinois. Here’s a deep dive into how it got there .
Pat Steir, Painter of Cascading Infinities, Dies at 87
Through works like her celebrated “Waterfalls” series, she leaves a legacy of artistic surrender and reverence for the gesture.
Required Reading
This week: what art conservators and novelists have in common, Toni Morrison and canonization, celebrating Eid in Gaza, the Lindy West drama, “girl games,” and more.
