The Indian Pavilion in Venice Asks: What Is Home?
"Geographies of Distance" offers a polysemous reading of home during a period of accelerated urbanization in India.
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What’s causing this unusually long cloud on Mars?
What’s causing this unusually long cloud on Mars?
As Politicians Break Promises, This Public Artwork Keeps Them
Paul Ramírez Jonas debuted his participatory artwork “Public Trust” months before Trump was first elected. A decade on, it feels more urgent than ever.
Leila Reichert Appointed as Senior Curator at Weisman Art Museum
The curator and writer is heading to the University of Minnesota institution after seven years at Indiana University's Eskenazi Museum of Art.
Layli Long Soldier’s Quilted Poetry
The Lakota poet reflects on the visual art in her new book, 10 art titles we’re reading this month, and a biography of Beverly Buchanan sets the record straight.
Jeremy Shaw Dances With the Divine
"I used to blanket my practice as being about ‘altered states,’” the artist told Hyperallergic, “but these days I speak more about faith and belief.”
Americans Place “I Voted” Stickers on Memorials to ICE Victims
Voting stickers appeared across memorials dedicated to Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Alex Pretti, both of whom were killed by ICE agents earlier this year.
The soundtrack for Wipeout XL (aka Wipeout 2097) was...
The soundtrack for Wipeout XL (aka Wipeout 2097) was crazy for a video game; it featured tracks from groups like Underworld, Orbital, The Prodigy, Daft Punk, and Chemical Brothers. I had this on CD! Ripped it and played ‘em on Winamp!
In an Updated Edition, Photographer Ivan McClellan Returns to Black Rodeo Culture
'Eight Seconds: Legacy in Motion' features 91 new images that spotlight the people and places integral to Black rodeo culture. 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 Year Math Changed Forever
"A.I. is solving problems that stumped the field for decades. Mathematicians look to Terence Tao for guidance on their altered world."
10 Years of Kottke.org Membership
An important KDO milestone whooshed by the other day and I was so heads-down on tuning up the new search engine (more on that below) that I missed it. So: it’s been 10 years since I started the KDO membership program ! (Quick recap of the value proposition from the membership
I Feel, Therefore I Am: Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio the Consciousness of the Body
"Ultimately, we are puppets of both pain and pleasure, occasionally made free by our creativity."
Collins Obijiaku’s Tender Portraits Conjure Memories and Community
'Wherever You Are, Remember Me' opens on November 7 at Roberts Projects in Los Angeles. 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 Collins Obijiaku’s Tender
Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data...
Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data Empires by Paris Marx. “He exposes the deceptive, exploitative ways tech companies are siphoning energy and resources from vulnerable communities in their pursuit of digital power…”
Film Meets Art
Vugar Efendi has made a pair of videos showing scenes from films that have been inspired by famous paintings. The second video is especially good, showing references in There Will Be Blood, Lost In Translation, and a Jacques-Louis David reference from About Schmidt. [This is a
Your Midterm Guide to Voting for the Arts
We rounded up key races and where candidates stand on culture funding, AI, and more.
Believing and thinking
The separation of church and state has an unspoken psychological basis: we choose what we believe, but not what we think - by Neil Van Leeuwen & Jacob Eisler Read on Aeon
The emotions of voting
Futility: It might feel like it doesn’t matter.Fear: Of choosing wrong, or doing it wrong.Responsibility: It isn’t given, it’s taken. Which is why so many leave it on the table.Possibility: Showing up to have your say could change things for the better.Identity: This is what
The San Francisco Public Library Launches a Free Online Archive with 80,000+ Historical Images & Documents to Explore & Download
Over 100,000 people move to the San Francisco Bay Area each year. Their motivations for doing so no doubt vary, but these days, the ambition to make a fortune at the epicenter of the tech industry — especially amid the rapidly inflating AI bubble — is hardly unheard of.
Have I Befriended a Murderer?
For five years, I’ve investigated a man convicted of bludgeoning his wife to death. Somewhere along the way, the line between journalism and friendship blurred.
Soviet Animations of Winnie the Pooh, Created by the Innovative Animator Fyodor Khitruk
In 1962, the animator Fyodor Khitruk made his directorial debut with Story of One Crime, a film that broke with a Soviet tendency to make imitations of Disney-style animations. The film, as The Guardian explained in its 2012 obituary for the animator, came as a shock. It was
Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: The Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity
"The mind narrates what the nervous system knows. Story follows state."
The Art of Advancing with Age: Bertrand Russell on What Makes a Fulfilling Life
"Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life."
A Midterm Election Guide for Artists and Arts Workers
Issues touching on arts funding, censorship, AI regulation, and more are at stake for the country’s cultural sectors across key Senate, House, and Gubernatorial races.
10 Art Books to Curl Up With This November
Celia Paul’s latest essay collection from Venice, Salman Toor’s painted worlds, the secret herbarium of Rosa Luxemburg, a new Roy Lichtenstein catalog for old fans, and more.
Love in the Time of Dinosaurs
In 1824, studying a set of large fossil bones discovered in a quarry near Oxford two centuries earlier, the English theologian, geologist, and paleontologist William Buckland kept looking at the fragment of the lower jaw. Something didn’t add up. As he examined it more closely,
Simon Willison: The October Inflection Point for Vibe...
Simon Willison: The October Inflection Point for Vibe Game Development . “The thing I find both exciting and shameful about this is that I have got interesting results from so little creative input.”
Arkivism is a search and visual discovery engine for...
Arkivism is a search and visual discovery engine for millions of public domain works from the collections of the Smithsonian, The Met, NASA, Library of Congress, National Gallery of Art, Rijksmuseum, and more.
Jeffrey Gibson’s ‘A Real Love Thing’ Surveys a Decade of the Artist’s Multidisciplinary Practice
Fifteen works amplify Gibson's interest in pattern, music, queer iconography, and his Indigenous Mississippi Choctaw and Cherokee heritage. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as