Where in the world are typefaces being designed? The US,...
Where in the world are typefaces being designed? The US, Germany, and France…but also the UK, Netherlands, and Indonesia.
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Las Vegas Teen Killed in Arts District Shooting
Two others were injured at the October iteration of the monthly First Fridays art festival.
European Parliament Installs Gilded Nude Statue Mocking Trump
Danish artist Jens Galschiøt’s sculpture “The Orange Plague” depicts a naked Trump sitting on the shoulders of a man straining under his weight.
Remembering Ingrid Wiener, Ian Berry, and Bob Masse
This week, we honor a Viennese Actionist, a journalist who captured Apartheid, and a poster designer for concerts and films.
LACMA's Alexander Calder Erewhon Smoothie Is What the Art World Deserves
The artist’s mobile outside the LA museum is the inspiration for a new drink à la Hailey Bieber, but in concrete gray with blobs of Calderesque colors.
AI-generated images don’t have to look like AI-generated...
AI-generated images don’t have to look like AI-generated images… they can be any style you want . (It’s just going to get more and more difficult to tell…)
10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This October
Roberta Gentry’s visions in orange and blue, Jordan Nassar’s tatreez puzzles, 12 Japanese women who shaped hard-edge abstraction, Susan Silton’s feminist conceptualism, and more.
In 2005, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory calculated that...
In 2005, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory calculated that the water stored by China’s huge Three Gorges Dam is enough to increase the length of a day by 0.06 microseconds and move the North pole by 0.8 inches. (A 9.1 earthquake had a bigger impact.)
Lots and Lots and Lots of Control Panels
To go along with my recent post about control rooms , here’s the Control Panels group on Flickr , containing almost 3000 photos of control interfaces for all kinds of things. You’ll see some of the same photos as in the Control Rooms group , but when you get past the first
The Hellhounds of Genocide
In Ridikkuluz’s paintings, the irascible dog emerges as a symbol for Israel’s oppression of Palestinians.
The Museum Director as Gardner
Institutions are human creations. Building and reshaping them requires imagination, experimentation and a tolerance for uncertainty.
The Museum Director as Gardener
Institutions are human creations. Building and reshaping them requires imagination, experimentation and a tolerance for uncertainty.
More Than 18,000 Wildlife Species Populate Joel Sartore’s Ambitious ‘Photo Ark’ (So Far!)
National Geographic celebrates 20 years of the photographer's massive project to document the planet's biodiversity. 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
The Job Trail, a web game about making it through 52...
The Job Trail , a web game about making it through 52 weeks as a laid-off creative worker. Based on The Oregon Trail. My first try: “You have died of burnout. Week 13. 51 applications, 1 ghosting.”
Dorothea Tanning Beyond Max Ernst’s Shadow
A new biography attempts to make the case for Tanning’s independence and artistic strength in her own right, but remains frustratingly tethered to her husband.
Celebrating 60 Years of NYC's Millennium Film Workshop
Founded by a group of artists from the Film-Makers’ Cooperative, the avant-garde space remains a supportive home for a community of experimental and non-commercial filmmakers.
Blue Planet III
BBC Earth is returning to the ocean. 25 years after the first installment, the legendary naturalist, presenter, and centenarian David Attenborough narrates Blue Planet III . This first look video , backed by a song Hans Zimmer & Jade Thirwall, is teeming with stunning footage
Precarious Dwellings Perch Atop Rocks in Simon Laveuve’s 1/35-Scale Miniatures
See these works in person later this fall in the artist's solo exhibition at Loo & Lou Gallery in Paris. 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 Precarious
118 Things to Do Instead of Doomscrolling. Including “put...
118 Things to Do Instead of Doomscrolling . Including “put together a puzzle”, “go for a bike ride”, “hold a plank for as long as you can — even if it’s only a second”, and “make your own limoncello”.
I won’t remain alone
In the wake of tragedy, an elderly couple must make a choice: should they let their son go to save the lives of others? - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Leon Black, You Can’t Hide
Protests against the Epstein associate and MoMA trustee intensify, Independent Art Fair sells out, and Black artists create their own glossary of liberation.
How do you like them apples?
In October, the apples in New England are some of the best in the world. Alas, the apples in this bowl are nine months old and from 3000 miles away. I found them sitting in a forlorn corner of a hotel gym in Cape Cod. Why source lousy apples? Because they’re not being hired to
Why the Maps of London, Tokyo, New York, and Other Major Cities Look the Way They Do
If you’re trying to understand a city, its map isn’t a bad place to start. Today, of course, we can call up an accurate map of practically any part of any city at any time we like, with detailed point-to-point directions available on command. Turn on the satellite view, street
It’s the End of the World as We Know It: The Apocalypse Gets Visualized in an Inventive Map from 1486
When will the world end? We can find serious scientific answers to this question, depending on what we mean by “world” and “end.” If we mean the end of civilization as we currently know it, climate scientists’ worst-case scenario points toward somewhere around 2100 as the
Why Are We Not Better Than We Are
"...a stillness in which the germ of what is not yet palpable pauses and gathers to begin one more time."
But We Had Music: Nick Cave Reads an Animated Poem about How to Be More Alive
How, knowing that even the universe is dying, do we bear our lives? Most readily, through friendship, through connection, through co-creating the world we want to live in for the brief time we have together on this lonely, perfect planet. The seventh annual Universe in Verse —
Hannah Lim Draws on Her British-Singaporean Heritage in Sculptural Snuff Bottles
The bottles' motifs have lately been inspired by an ancient Chinese tome called 'The Classic of Mountains and Seas.' 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