From Big Think and Pop Charts, A Literary Map of America that “highlights the real and imagined settings of hundreds of books”. Frank Jacobs takes a closer look at some of the imaginary places on the map , including Sleepy Hollow, Lake Wobegon, Brokeback Mountain, and F. Scott
The Art Dealers Association of America’s chummy five-day show returns to the Upper East Side after quietly canceling last fall’s edition.
In addition to declining funding, the survey identified a disturbing correlation between censorship concerns and financial precarity.
Solving the Feynman restaurant problem , i.e. how many dishes should you sample at a restaurant to find your favorite one? “Once you settle on a dish, the best strategy is to order it on every remaining visit.”
Taking David Hockney’s painting of arts patron Betty Freeman as his subject, James Cahill tells the engrossing story of two friends who shaped the cultural landscape of 1960s Los Angeles.
The Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act would speed up permitting for major projects and could impact Indigenous sovereignty over culturally significant land.
Four decades later, El Museo del Barrio restages Papo Colo's text-and-image show "Octopus and Others."
Paul Ford made an app called Mouse Party for easily hosting video watching parties for your friends, no web server needed.
Works at the American Society of Botanical Artists' annual exhibition radiate with majesty, and the intricate sumptuousness is agonizing.
"Everything depends on the individual human being, regardless of how small a number of like-minded people there is... on each person... creatively making the meaning of life a reality in his or her own being."
Afghan-American visual artist Daniel Malikyar recently shared some great photos of what he calls “a fashion subculture unlike anything I’ve encountered before” that he found in a remote village in the mountains of Afghanistan. I met a group of boys in a remote village who
Museums in Germany, New York, and Vermont are among those to honor the late abstract landscape painter next year.
The long-lost source for a sample in Craig Mack’s Flava In Ya Ear has been found . “Back then, rap producers took care in disguising the samples that they chopped up, making them difficult to trace — not just for legal reasons, but as part of the art.”
The participatory public artwork includes a self-guided tour via text every night from 5 to 8 p.m. until December 13. 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
Literary Hub is trying to determine the best literary TV adaptation of all time . I have soft spots for Station Eleven, Mindhunter, Shogun, The Expanse, Normal People, and, especially, My Brilliant Friend. (Where is Fleishman Is in Trouble??)
"A passion, like the torrent in the violence of its course, might perhaps too, like the torrent, leave ruin and desolation behind... My love for you... is deep and calm, more like the quiet river, which refreshes and beautifies where it flows."
Stream the PBS documentary series, which explores the impact of regional handmade craft in the north and south of the country.
On his site Notes From the Road, Erik Gauger has a wonderful eight-part series on The Citrus Kingdom , a collection of illustrated stories about citrus fruit and Sicily. The key to the citron’s future—a future that links nearly every aspect of Sicily’s cultural, political and
“The light and studio interior are literally reflected in my work.”
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,