To Be Alone With Your Thoughts in '70s New York
Fred Camper's contemplative film "Suicide Note" was born out of grief and a city in collapse.
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Using an LLM’s “superhuman ability to parse through...
Using an LLM’s “superhuman ability to parse through galactic quantities of data”, a very amateur astronomer has found a possible exoplanet candidate . MIT is going to point their satellite at the candidate planet to collect more data soon.
Applications Open for the MFA in Studio Art at Maine College of Art & Design
Apply by January 17, 2027 to be considered for a full-tuition scholarship.
Revisit Claes Oldenburg’s Seminal ‘Six Themes’ 50 Years After Its Debut
'Six Themes' at Paula Cooper Gallery celebrates the artist's seminal sculptures. 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 Revisit Claes Oldenburg’s Seminal
How Japanese Dried Bonito Is Made
This workshop founded in 1882 still makes dried bonito like they did back in the Edo period . How katsuobushi — Japanese dried bonito, said to be the world’s hardest food — is made in Nishi-Izu, Japan. Inside Kanesa Katsuobushi Shoten, a workshop founded in 1882,
How to Stop Waiting and Start Living: A Jolt from Henry James
"It wouldn't have been failure to be bankrupt, dishonoured, pilloried, hanged; it was failure not to be anything."
Brewster Kahle argues against news sites blocking the...
Brewster Kahle argues against news sites blocking the Internet Archive from archiving their sites . “Impeding the Wayback Machine’s preservation work will not prevent powerful AI companies from gathering training data.”
Death by a Thousand Dams
"Tens of thousands of small barriers hamper fish recovery in the northeastern United States."
The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Jasper Craven
He wrote the book on how the military shapes masculine identity. He'll also tell you about Disney adults, Pharaoh Sanders, and his favorite spot for a burger and negroni.
Paris Students Shut Down the Louvre
Artist Rosana Paulino makes a self-portrait of Brazil, protests in France and Colombia, and this month’s edition of Beer With a Painter.
How intuitions work
Just as seeing a tree gives you reason to believe it’s there, sensing that a stranger is creepy gives you reason to walk away - by Marc A Moffett Read on Aeon
Thieves’ cant slang
Insider jargon, previously known as cant, is designed to keep outsiders out. The burglars in cartoons are often seen wearing a black mask over their eyes (like Robin in Batman but for a different reason) and carrying a bulging sack over their shoulders. [Of course, the
Doctor Who’s Tom Baker Plays Douglas Adams’ Digital “Agent” in the AI-Predicting Hyperland (1990)
Cast your mind, if you will, back to the year 2020. It now feels like a different time, what with the spreading COVID-19 pandemic and the heated sociopolitical battles being waged online, and indeed in the (socially distanced) streets. That spring, we featured here on Open
Hear How Clare Torry’s Vocals on Pink Floyd’s “The Great Gig in the Sky” Made the Song Go from Pretty Good to Downright Great
Smack in the middle of Pink Floyd’s classic Dark Side of the Moon sits a song many listeners may hear as an extended bridge between the two true centerpieces, “Time” and “Money.” But I’ve always thought of “The Great Gig in the Sky” as the album’s true center, a swirling,
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.
Art Books on Needles and Threads
We recommend titles on fiber art, weaving, and textiles, plus Megan O’Grady on a new John Berger biography.
NPR’s Planet Money recently did a show on tariff refunds...
NPR’s Planet Money recently did a show on tariff refunds and interviewed Panic’s Cabel Sasser about how they decided to refund their Playdate -buying customers for the tariffs surcharge they paid.
Hundreds Protest in Colombia After Far-Right President Removes Works From National Museum
In a Trumpian move, the government of Abelardo de la Espriella took down works referencing LGBTQ+ and women’s rights and political violence.
Do you believe in life after death? This is a great...
Do you believe in life after death? This is a great interactive piece by Alvin Chang about people’s beliefs about the existence of an afterlife and how those beliefs change over the course of our lifetimes.
Gowanus Open Studios Turns 30
This year’s iteration of the artistic assembly was a love letter to the neighborhood and its craftsmanship amid an era of remediation, development, and gentrification.
Beer With a Painter: Melissa Brown
“I want to visualize the fact that, despite our perception, reality is changeable,” the Brooklyn-based artist said of her paintings.
David Reed Went Where Lichtenstein Wouldn’t
He brought his optical preoccupations into the 21st century, without losing his love of artists from earlier eras.
Rithika Merchant Summons Ancient Mythology and Mysticism in ‘The Dreaming Realm’
Merchant's fable-like narratives tap into our anxieties around the environment by conjuring instead a kind of utopia. 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
A Tiny 24 FPS E-Ink Game Boy Emulator
This is really impressive: a software engineer got a Game Boy emulator running at 30 fps on a tiny e-ink screen. If you’re familiar with e-paper, you know that they normally refresh much slower (2-3 times a second), not nearly quick enough to play even a simple video game.
A 24-minute video tour of the Krasner and Pollock: Past...
A 24-minute video tour of the Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous exhibition at the Met. I hope I make it to NYC to see this before it closes in January.
Let’s Give a Round of A-Paws to These Tompkins Dog Parade Participants
Santa Paws, Vincent van Doge, and the papal Pup Leo were among this year’s fierce competition.
Towers of Babble is a game that mashes up word games and...
Towers of Babble is a game that mashes up word games and tower defense games. “Nouns make buildings and other parts of speech make modifiers that you can add to a building to improve its stats.”
Hyperland, a Prescient 1990 TV Show by Douglas Adams
I’d never heard of this before: in 1990, the BBC aired a program created by and starring Douglas Adams called Hyperland . It begins with a frustrated Adams throwing his TV out (too linear, too non-interactive) and Tom Baker (from Doctor Who) popping up as an intelligent
Paris Students Block Louvre Entrance, Forcing Closure
Students from the independent École du Louvre and the National School of Fine Arts are leading the ongoing action.
Rosana Paulino Reads the Archive Against Those Who Made It
“This history is dirty,” says the Brazilian artist, who sees the colonial past as an active force in her country’s present.
In ‘Aeolus,’ DRIFT Suspends Illuminated Glass Rods in a Sculpture of the Wind
"Like wind itself, the work only fully exists through interaction," say DRIFT founders Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta. 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
This Iranian Documentary Wasn’t Meant to Begin This Way
In Mani Haghighi’s new film, an artist’s extensive archive draws the ire of the authorities.
