The 100 Best Indie Rock Albums of All Time . Includes albums by Death Cab for Cutie, Neko Case, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bon Iver, TV on the Radio, Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Liz Phair, and Sonic Youth.
The sun, in crimson. 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 Seán Doran’s ‘Crimson Star’ Tours the Raging Surface of the Sun appeared first on Colossal .
Jono is a video game with 1,000,000 levels. Only one person can play at a time, for 60 seconds, while everyone else watches on a livestream.” As of this writing, the game is up to level 179,579, and Jono has died 250,687 times.
Trapped in the system. Surgery uncertainty. What school could look like. The universality of loss. And wildlife cams (and those who ovsess over them.)
Wherever people are confined, displaced, silenced or made disposable, fugitive forms of knowledge and imagination emerge - by Shahram Khosravi Read on Aeon
Amin Husain and Nitasha Dhillon on Marco Baravalle’s new book, plus Jasmine Wahi on the continued fight for arts and culture after the midterm elections.
"First there was the cancer, then the devastating breakup, and finally came the breakdown. Millie Kerr sought help at one of America’s top psychiatric institutions. It turned into a nightmare."
You can’t become fluent in a foreign language in ten minutes a day, even if you try for months. On the other hand, here are a dozen things many of us can do (or do better) if we stick with it: Three-ball jugglingTouch typingRubik’s CubeDrawingMental mathMemorizing a deck of
Most of us twenty-first-century urbanites have a fairly sentimental view of farm animals, precisely because so many generations have gone by since they’ve been part of our daily lives. (In South Korea, where I live, the agricultural past remains just within living memory.
Taught by historian Marci Shore, “European Intellectual History Since Nietzsche” surveys the story of modern thought, from the late 18th century to the late 20th. Along the way, the course explores major trends in modern European thought: Marxism-Leninism, psychoanalysis,
Activists rallied at the museum ahead of a benefit for the Debra and Leon Black Family Film Center, decrying the board member’s Epstein connections and his pro-Israel support.
Plus, SITE Santa Fe artists announced, awards for Lorna Simpson and Wolfgang Tillmans, and Penske Media partners with Amazon … because of course.
In “The Battleground of Art,” curator and activist Marco Baravalle dissects the art establishment's co-optation of radical politics and uplifts the stories of collectives that resist it.
Sky Glabush identifies the feelings he associates with a particular place and translates that through color and intuitive interpretations of the terrain. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for
Democratic leaders need to understand that cultural funding cannot stop at large museums and institutions; it must reach the people whose labor makes it possible.
Writer and comedian Zach Mander took quotes from Karl Marx and paired them with illustrations from books by Richard Scarry like What Do People Do All Day? and Cars and Trucks and Things That Go. See also Mamdani’s Richard Scarry socialism . Tags: books · illustration
Attalah was accused of publishing false news and operating without a license amid Egyptian authorities’ extensive crackdown on independent press.
Riding the Rails With America’s Last Train-Hoppers . “There are still people today who risk injury and arrest to climb aboard freight trains, still moving through the country in cars designed to carry things rather than people.”
The corkscrew car jump from the Bond film The Man With The Golden Gun was extensively modelled on a computer in 1974 . “McHenry took all the measurements and simulated the stunt using the equations of the 18th-century mathematician Leonhard Euler.”
Ten years in the making, "The Cloud House" is a whimsical response to its eclectic neighboring architecture. 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 Peter
“Today’s rich people are richer than ever, and that seems to have made them worse than ever . More shameless. More out of touch. Less empathetic. Thinner-skinned. And…angrier. They’re people who consider equality for others oppression for themselves.”
“S’élevant (Rising)” (1962) was snatched from Gallery Ludorff's booth on November 8.
As part of the 30 Day Map Challenge , Maxwell Howe created a map of New England places that many out-of-towners mispronounce ( Instagram ). As you would expect when you start talking about local pronunciations and accents, he’s getting some blowback: You’re mixing accent with
“When we have learned how to listen to trees,” Hermann Hesse wrote in one of his least known, most beautiful essays, “then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer
“Insincere ironic detachment is abundant,” the Bay Area artist told Hyperallergic. “What is niche now are sincere depictions of the present.”
Available for only two weeks, this curated selection of 14 Indigenous films features stories of resilience, inspiration, and hope.
Launching today: a collection of hundreds of stores that are worth detouring past Amazon to get to. The stores were nominated by you, the readers of this blog, and are only lightly curated. There’s no business model for the site, just a collective sharing. Click and explore.