How to Be More Alive: Hermann Hesse on Wonder and the Proper Aim of Education
"While wandering down the path of wonder, I briefly escape the world of separation and enter the world of unity."
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The Importance of Breakdowns: Crisis as a Clarifying Force for Authenticity
"Crisis... is an attempt to dislodge us from a toxic status quo and constitutes an insistent call to rebuild our lives on a more authentic and sincere basis."
Journey Through Autumn and Winter in Robinsson Cravents’ Hand-Drawn ‘Yosemite’
You'll want to linger in winter just a bit longer. 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 Journey Through Autumn and Winter in Robinsson Cravents’
Brooklyn Navy Yard Evicts Drone Manufacturer After Months of Protests
Though listed as a “fine art and photography” business, Easy Aerial contracts with Customs and Border Protection and the Israeli military, activists long flagged.
The Self-Invention of Helene Schjerfbeck
The Finnish artist’s first major exhibition in the US is a moving and harrowing document of her growth, as well as the psychic and physical ravages of aging.
Representatives of Pride Flag’s Creator Sue Trump Administration
It’s one of two recent lawsuits targeting the government’s interventions across parks and monuments in the week after the Pride flag was removed from Stonewall.
New from Neal Agarwal: Sandboxels . “It’s a...
New from Neal Agarwal: Sandboxels . “It’s a falling-sand game with hundreds of elements, heat simulation, electricity & a lot more. I like making little cities and then adding tons of rats.”
University of North Texas Students Withdraw Thesis Shows, Citing Censorship
It’s one of multiple actions in solidarity with artist Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez, whose exhibition of works critical of ICE violence was abruptly shuttered.
The Museum at FIT Presents “Art X Fashion”
This exhibition explores the entangled and shifting relationship between fine art and fashion, tracing parallel aesthetics from 18th-century Rococo to postmodernism.
Some modern collective nouns : a cringe of Cybertrucks,...
Some modern collective nouns : a cringe of Cybertrucks, an anxiety of authors, a migraine of toddlers, and “a group of two or men is called a podcast”.
LA’s Art Scene Is Not a New York Outpost
Artist-run spaces represent the heart of Los Angeles’s art scene, yet most people still see the city’s identity as tied to the market — one that’s increasingly influenced by the East Coast.
Business/product advice: launch it three times ....
Business/product advice: launch it three times . “The vast majority of the time, the single biggest problem you have is that nobody knows you exist, and nobody gives a damn about what you do.”
Remembering Henrike Naumann, LaMonte McLemore, and Frederick Wiseman
This week, we honor Germany’s representative at the Venice Biennale, a singer and photographer, and a documentarian of the lives of institutions.
See the Best of Nearly Half a Million Entries to the Sony World Photography Awards
Ten categories, ranging from portraiture to landscapes to travel, encompass the staggering breadth and beauty of nature and society captured throughout 2025. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing
A Sense of Getting Closer
With music by Max Cooper and visuals by Conner Griffith , A Sense of Getting Closer is a music video that was inspired by a quote submitted to Cooper’s On Being project : I have a sense of getting closer to something which my life depends on. I can sense it but I cannot tell
Searching for Birds , an engaging visualization of eBird...
Searching for Birds , an engaging visualization of eBird and Google Trends data that reveals human curiosity about birds.
Inside Pratt SCPS: Where Practice Meets the Spotlight
Discover what happens when working creatives, career pivoters, and lifelong makers plug into art and design education at Pratt’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies.
Foliage and Wild Creatures Spring to Life in Clare Celeste’s Paper Installations
Leaves and blooms invite viewers to immerse themselves in a jungle-like atmosphere. 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 Foliage and Wild Creatures
How to raise children . “It’s wild to me...
How to raise children . “It’s wild to me that we parent our children to fit into society, then get together with our friends and talk about how broken society is.”
Team Pursuit speed skaters used to trade off leads like...
Team Pursuit speed skaters used to trade off leads like cyclists but the sport has been revolutionized by the US team’s invention of the “bump drafting” technique .
Echoic Memory
"I am a person of ground. This is not to say grounded, but of earth, attached to the earth."
Vintage Art House Movie Posters by Peter Strausfeld
The excellent Poster House museum in NYC currently has an exhibition up of posters by Peter Strausfeld . Between 1947 and 1980, Peter Strausfeld, a German refugee interned on the Isle of Man during World War II, created unique, compelling posters for London’s Academy
Paul Ford on AI and the Infinite Software Era ....
Paul Ford on AI and the Infinite Software Era . “All of the people I love hate this stuff, and all the people I hate love it. And yet, likely because of the same personality flaws that drew me to technology in the first place, I am annoyingly excited.”
Martha Graham Took Classic Ballet and Turned It Into Modern Dance. It’s Still Moving Us 100 Years Later
Her choreography told stories in new ways and her collaborations with costume and stage designers changed the aesthetic of the art. Now, her dance company marks its first century
Current is an interesting new RSS reader that...
Current is an interesting new RSS reader that doesn’t function like an email inbox . “There is no count because counting was the problem.”
ICE Is Pushing Minneapolis Underground
"After ICE raids, tear gassing protestors, and two killings, DHS 'border czar' Tom Homan arrived in the Twin Cities to announce a winding down of immigration enforcement. But the battle has merely moved from the streets to the underground, and the city remains under siege."
How to Shed the Surface-Self: The Forgotten Visionary Evelyn Underhill on Touching the Depths of Being
It is hard to know why we are here, what we can make of the transience we can do nothing about, how we can fill every borrowed atom of matter with meaning. It is hard not to take for givens the answers handed down to us by our culture, our parents, our peers, our heroes. There
Love After Life: Nobel-Winning Physicist Richard Feynman’s Extraordinary Letter to His Departed Wife
Where the hard edge of physics meets the vulnerable metaphysics of the human heart.
Hermann Hesse on Solitude, the Value of Hardship, the Courage to Be Yourself, and How to Find Your Destiny
"Solitude is not chosen, any more than destiny is chosen. Solitude comes to us if we have within us the magic stone that attracts destiny."
Lunar New Year-Ramadan Resolutions
The British Museum in hot water over using "Canaan" instead of Palestine in labels, Ocean Vuong's photography, Lunar New Year celebrations in NYC, and Seph Rodney on the need for art that gives us an "elsewhere to imagine."
Mama Don’t Take My Chromophobia Away
"Pantone’s 2026 Color of the Year is selling us a white fantasy."
How to write a coaching/learning prompt
An AI like Claude is actually a pretty good fortune cookie. You can ask a simple question and get a simple answer, sometimes a profound one. But this is a waste of the tool’s potential. The AI is patient. It’s capable of remembering things over time. And it will persist if you
An Introduction to Outsider Artist Henry Darger and His Bizarre 15,000-Page Illustrated Masterwork
The expression “Don’t quit your day job” is often used as an insult, implying that the recipient’s creative skills aren’t up to attracting a career-supporting audience. But it can also be practical advice in certain cases, especially those of artists possessed of a sensibility
Get Your Red-Hot History Lesson! How the Hot Dog Rose From Coney Island Carts to Platters at Presidential Picnics
A simple sausage from Germany overtook ballparks and backyards to become the quintessential hand-held meal that is decidedly all-American
Howard Zinn’s “What the Classroom Didn’t Teach Me About the American Empire”: An Illustrated Video Narrated by Viggo Mortensen
“Throughout U.S. history, our military has been used not for moral purposes but to expand economic, political, and military power,” says a cartoon Howard Zinn in Mike Konopacki’s 273-page comic book A People’s History of American Empire. Written with Zinn and historian Paul