Video captured by Amy Yolland of three humpback whales...
Video captured by Amy Yolland of three humpback whales breaching one after another . Incredible. Also available on YouTube .
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Met Gala's New Theme Is the Biggest Recession Indicator Yet
Brace yourself for A-listers strutting down the red carpet in everyday garb like jeans, T-shirts, and "humble, even 'disposable' materials."
MFA Boston to Allow Visitors to Watch Live Conservation of Dutch Painting
Nicolaes Eliasz Pickenoy’s 17th-century group portrait of an Amsterdam wine guild will be the star of a pop-up restoration studio that museumgoers can peer into.
Subvocal’s glasses turn your silent speech into text at...
Subvocal’s glasses turn your silent speech into text at 200 wpm — it measures mouth movements with radar? Like many things these days, this is very technically interesting but also creepy and dystopian.
An Animated Film Made in Excel Sums Up the Pointless Impulse to Create
Just because something doesn't have a purpose doesn't mean it isn't worth doing. 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 An Animated Film Made in Excel
Foursquare was recently acquired and co-founder Dennis...
Foursquare was recently acquired and co-founder Dennis Crowley wrote about it . “Dozens of current and former Foursquare employees have reached out to me to express their frustration with the leadership that led the company to this outcome.”
Grocery Shopping With a Bow & Arrow
For a 1992 conceptual art piece called The Hunt , Christian Jankowski survived for a week on goods he shot at the local supermarket with a bow and arrow. To rebel against modern society, to return to nature: in pursuit of these primeval instincts, for one week, Jankowski lived
The Glimchers Can’t Keep Up the Pace
The mega gallery is struggling, Ebony L. Haynes joins Marian Goodman Gallery, longtime Manifesta director steps down, and more in Art Movements.
Paul Ford: “The web browser is very, very, very powerful...
Paul Ford : “The web browser is very, very, very powerful software for building applications, and the cost of accessing that power is going down seemingly every day.”
Women who die postpartum often do so because they lose...
Women who die postpartum often do so because they lose too much blood. An 80-cent plastic bag is helping solve the problem . “The drape is not an A.I. thing — it’s the absolute opposite: It’s a simple, simple, intervention that can solve our problems.”
Inconvenient brands
For an upcoming blog post, I’m collecting a list of small businesses that are worth bypassing Amazon for. Holiday shopping is around the corner, and sometimes people want to put in the effort to buy something that takes more than a click. Folks like Burlap and Barrel, Gramercy
At MoMA, Brancusi Is Lost in Space
The artist’s work is glorious and resonant, but the Museum of Modern Art has a space problem, or an elegance problem, or a crowd mitigation problem.
A growing list of brands to avoid because they are...
A growing list of brands to avoid because they are “actively engaged in the enshittification playbook” (many post-acquisition by private equity), including Dr. Martens, Pyrex, Hoka, rag & bone, Ray-Ban, Black+Decker, Hunter Boot, Craftsmen, and more.
Shape Your Artistic Future at UC Davis: The Maria Manetti Shrem Art Studio MFA Program
Generously funded, renowned faculty and visiting artists, spacious studios, and an exhibition at the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art.
Stunning Image of Our Satellite-Choked Night Skies
To create this composite image , photographer Brendan Larsen captured almost 600 photographs over a two-hour period and then manually stitched them together. This is the most time-consuming photo edit I’ve EVER done! I left my camera photographing the night sky over Mt
I Thought I’d Left Authoritarianism Behind. “To anyone...
I Thought I’d Left Authoritarianism Behind . “To anyone who has lived under dictatorship, the pattern is instantly recognizable. Dictators start by instilling fear. They exploit uncertainty to manufacture loyalty.”
Umberto Eco’s Antilibrary: Why Unread Books Are More Valuable to Our Lives than Read Ones
How to become an "antischolar" in a culture that treats knowledge as "an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order."
Why Immigration Agents Don’t Quit in Protest
"How a culture of dehumanization and denial keeps ICE and Border Patrol personnel 'at war with an enemy that does not fight back.'”
Long-Lost Georgia O’Keeffe Landscape Goes to Auction
Her painting “Near Abiquiu, New Mexico I” was stashed in an East Village closet for decades. Now it might sell for up to $3 million.
Their eyes
In Kenya, the Philippines and Venezuela, low-paid labour fuels the driverless future of the Global North - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
The Brain Injury That Made Edward Freytag A Musical Genius
"As his brain healed over the next six months, however, something remarkable happened, something that would land Edward in the annals of neuroscience case history."
Methodical/mercurial
I need order and routine – just as much as I crave excitement and variety. What’s life like with both autism and ADHD? - by Sarah Hendrickx Read on Aeon
Doris Salcedo Traces the Shape of Memory
The Colombian artist reflects on the state’s attempts to erase history, and the people’s continued refusal. Also: How should artists decide whether to participate in documenta 16?
The Generosity of Selfishness: C.S. Lewis on How to Be Interesting
Our lives are defined not by what we have but what we give — on what and whom we spend our energy and time, how we share our material possessions and our mental powers, what we do with our gifts. “Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you,” Annie
George Washington’s error
In his farewell address, he said, “Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course.” It’s easy to fall in love with the idea that we live in a detached and distant situation. To imagine that culture and society and events out there have no
The Man Who Risked His Life Mocking the Nazis: Read 96 Issues of His Underground Magazine, Created in Hiding During WWII
The word zine, referring to a homemade magazine not distributed through the normal commercial channels, has a longer history than you might expect. Its earliest recorded uses date from 1946 in the world of pulp magazines, most often of the science-fiction variety. But just a
Burying the Evidence
The future doesn’t care about your time capsule, but don’t let that stop you.
Martin Scorsese Creates a List of 39 Essential Foreign Films for a Young Filmmaker
As a young man, filmmaker Colin Levy got an opportunity of a lifetime. He got a one-on-one meeting with Martin Scorsese. After spending much of his time in high school making a five-minute short, Levy won the national YoungArts award — and, with it, the chance to chat with the
Daniel Sikkema Sentenced to Life for Murder of Art Dealer Brent Sikkema
The 56-year-old man is accountable for a "cold, calculated murder-for-hire plot," said US Attorney Jamie McDonald.
The Souls of Animals
“They do not sweat and whine about their condition,” Walt Whitman wrote of the other animals, “they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning