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A day in the life of Peter Hujar, Mahmoud Khalil a year after detention, the madman theory of Trump, and more.
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In Monica Rohan’s Paintings, Tablecloths and Chairs Uncannily Perch in Remote Landscapes
Monica Rohan's patterned fabrics and indoor furnishings once again make their way outside, although now, humans are nowhere to be found. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7
What Can We Gain by Losing Infinity?
"Ultrafinitism, a philosophy that rejects the infinite, has long been dismissed as mathematical heresy. But it is also producing new insights in math and beyond."
Art Movements: Curators Named for El Museo's Latine Art Survey
Biennale shake-ups, a new leadership model for Manifesta, and Marina Abramović, wine whisperer?
Dozens of Suspended ‘Halos’ Glimmer in a Florentine Factory
SpY's latest installation suspends metallic discs inside of an industrial space as part of Bright Festival. 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 Dozens
Venice Biennale Jury Resigns
Responsible for awarding the Golden Lions, the women-led jury stepped down a week after its statement of intent to omit Russia and Israel from consideration.
Farewell, Voting Rights Act
Adam Serwer writing about the yesterday’s Supreme Court decision that guts much of whatever remains of the Voting Rights Act: In states with large Black populations that remain under Republican control — half of the Black American population resides in the South — lawmakers
Come on everyone, we’re going to Cursor Camp !
Come on everyone, we’re going to Cursor Camp !
Five Independent Souls: The Signers from New Jersey
This exhibition at Morven Museum & Garden in Princeton examines the lives of the Declaration’s signers, and those they enslaved, through over 100 historic artifacts.
Their Ancestor Was an Enslaved Potter. They Are Battling to Recover His Legacy.
"The descendants of David Drake learned who he was 10 years ago. They see his jars as his artistic and spiritual inheritance—and their own."
Laura K. Sayers’ Vibrant Postage Stamps Celebrate the Beauty of Everyday Moments
The artist's solo exhibition 'The Wee Small Hours' continues through May 3 in Glasgow. 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 Laura K. Sayers’ Vibrant
Who invented bad guys?
The good-vs-evil paradigm of most pop-culture storytelling is a relatively recent effort to promote social cohesion - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Trump Puts His Face on the Passport
Plus, John Yau on Édouard Glissant’s collection, Sotheby’s holds a benefit auction for the Yale MFA program, and more.
The Ethiopian running secret
One school of training is highly personalised, technical and data-driven. The other is the one that wins marathons - by Michael Crawley & Geoff Burns Read on Aeon
One thing at a time
Multi-tasking is mostly an illusion. What we’re actually doing is slicing our focus, jumping from one thing to another and then back again. All that jumping decreases our productivity and worse, erodes our peace of mind. You’re only doing one thing at a time anyway. Might as
Why Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel Made the Still-Shocking Un Chien Andalou (1929)
Under most circumstances, there’s nothing particularly shocking about cutting into an eye removed from a dead animal. Gratuitous, maybe, and surely disgusting for some, but certainly not psychologically damaging. I remember a man turning up one day to my first-grade classroom
The Simpsons Present Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” and Teachers Now Use It to Teach Kids the Joys of Literature
The Simpsons has mocked or referenced literature over its many seasons, usually through a book Lisa was reading, or with guest appearances (e.g., Michael Chabon & Jonathan Franzen, Maya Angelou and Amy Tan). And it has referenced Edgar Allan Poe in both title (“The Tell-Tale
Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: The Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity
"The mind narrates what the nervous system knows. Story follows state."
Winners of the GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2026 .
Winners of the GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2026 .
Trump Adds His Face to the US Passport
The new passport design is an audacious escalation of the president’s attempts to tag public resources with his name and likeness.
Édouard Glissant’s Museum-as-Archipelago
An exhibition of his collection finds provisional alliances between artists, rather than reiterating established hierarchies.
