Mestra is a forthcoming short story from Madeline Miller ( Circe , The Song of Achilles ); it’s “a powerful reimagining of Ovid’s Pygmalion”. Miller is also working on a novel about Persephone .
The Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Art are among the hundreds of businesses shuttering on January 23 in protest of the ICE killing of Renee Macklin Good.
"A noted Texas historian and his adult child get behind the wheel to see if they can finally view their home state the same way."
This week, the Earth was hit with one of the strongest geomagnetic storms in recent years, which made for some gobsmacking displays of the northern lights, even as far south as California. Cruising in a 787 at 37,000 feet on his route from Calgary to London (UK), airline pilot
The Bolivian artist's work is imbued with a sense of nostalgia—a longing for connections to "the mystical, the epic, and the sacred," he says. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little
From director Rian Johnson, a collection of some of the screenplays of his movies & TV shows , including Wake Up Dead Man, Knives Out, Glass Onion, Looper, and the Poker Face pilot. “Print them, share them, act them out with your friends.”
Now That I Am Old Enough to Enroll in Medicare, I Am Against Socialized Medicine . “Don’t you know that it makes my benefits less special when everyone can receive them?”
The new book, forthcoming from Phaidon, surveys felines in art throughout the millennia. 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 ‘Cat’ Is a Purr-fect
A must-read thread from Margaret Killjoy ( Skywriter thread ) on what’s going on in Minnesota. I came to Minneapolis to report on what’s going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is “just what is the scale of the resistance?” After all, we’re all used to the
More ways to help: Stand With Minnesota . How you can tell this is a local MN thing: “We are now just two ladies running this thing as volunteers, so please be patient.”
You can help: a listing of mutual aid organizations to support in Minnesota .
Ryan Coogler’s Sinners sets record for most Oscar nominations: 16! Includes best picture, best director, best screenplay, and best actor (for Michael B. Jordan). Well-deserved…Sinners was the best film I saw in 2025.
A documentary connecting two Singapores: the Asian country expanded on imported sand and a town in Michigan buried by dunes - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Queens Museum leader quits, Gabrielle Goliath sues, vintage gay porn as political art, and more.
Young Europeans join far-Right movements less out of grievance than out of a profound yearning to believe and belong - by Agnieszka Pasieka Read on Aeon
42 years ago, Apple’s 1984 ad ran on the Super Bowl. Once. It’s generally considered the most effective ad of its kind, creating a legend and also a trap. Was this ad the reason the Mac is still around? Or was it Regis McKenna’s work in getting Steve on the cover of more than
Un Chien Andalou means “an Andalusian dog,” though the much-studied 1929 short film of that title contains no dogs at all, from Andalusia or anywhere else. In fact, it alludes to a Spanish expression about how the howling of an Andalusian signals that someone has died. And
In 2004, the Brazilian musician Seu Jorge recorded a series of Portuguese covers of David Bowie songs for Wes Anderson’s film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. The next year, he released a full album of 13 Bowie classics, and in 2016–2017, he even took the songs on tour. Now,
One of the hardest realizations in life, and one of the most liberating, is that our mothers are neither saints nor saviors — they are just people who, however messy or painful our childhood may have been, and however complicated the adult relationship, have loved us the best
10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents . “Fifty projects later, I’ll be frank: I have not had this much fun with a computer since I learned BASIC on my Apple II Plus when I was 9 years old.”
The Great Crime Decline Is Happening All Across the Country . “What has changed nationally is a huge investment by the federal government in prevention in response to the COVID epidemic. Investing in education, police, librarians, community centers…”
The artist reportedly alleges that South Africa’s minister of culture acted unconstitutionally in canceling her commission, which included references to Gaza.
Under Tallant, the museum secured a $26 million expansion allocation from the city, but also drew controversy and criticism.
This week, we honor the designer of the Native American Veterans Memorial, a Disney animator, a picture book illustrator, and others.
What it’s like to “rediscover” vintage gay adult films from the 1970s and 1980s in a moment of state repression.
“When South Morningside Primary School girls football team won the prestigious Edinburgh Schools cup last year, they were presented with a small plastic trophy. It paled into comparison with the large, grand trophy given to the winning boys team… ”
Conventional wisdom says there isn’t much you can do, but Paddy Johnson knows that’s not the whole story.
Water bankruptcy is a “chronic condition that develops when a place uses more water than nature can reliably replace, and when the damage to the natural assets that store and filter that water, such as aquifers and wetlands, becomes hard to reverse”.
Idiosyncrasies and bouts of whimsy bubble up in the Brooklyn-based artist's works. 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 Playful, Enigmatic Narratives