Is American Culture Simply Bad Now? I’ve been hanging with my friend Matt while he’s here in Tokyo for a trip, which he refers to as his “America is Cooked Tour” as he keeps running across things that are much better here.
Arthur Jafa at the New Museum, Teresa Margolles at MoMA PS1, the story of an unsung Black architect, and our art tarotscope for the fall.
Consistency costs extra. If you want to buy machine screws or widgets that are exactly the same to five decimal points, you’ll pay a premium for that. In exchange, you’ll get parts that are precisely as expected, making assembly more reliable. Mechanization’s productivity and
Recovering the "forgotten blaze or burst of astonishment at our own existence" alive in the back of our modernity-deadened minds.
"The alternations between love and its denial, suffering and denial of suffering … constitute the most essential and ubiquitous structural feature of the human heart."
Here we are, bewildered miracles of chemistry and chance, trembling embers of dead stars capable of sign and song, a wild bet against probability that won. We have dreamt up origin myths and cosmological models, built the Taj Mahal and the Large Hadron Collider, to fathom where
The works draw on motifs of migration, but the motifs themselves migrate across the gallery.
Back in 2005, a group of restorers established a hidden workshop in Paris’s Panthéon and snuck into the building for a whole year to repair an antique clock . “The group managed to connect the hideaway to the electricity grid and install a computer…” Wild!
“Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem — in my opinion — to characterize our age.”
For the last 20 years, city-funded grants for individual artists have remained at $5,000.
OrySnack: The Bar Where Bartenders Work From Home . Small robot servers in this Japanese bar are controlled by people who can only work from home because of disability or illness.
Workers at the American Folk Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum, and Guggenheim Museum had bargained for higher pay and better working conditions.
Former artist residents of the LA nonprofit fear leadership has strayed from the radical, queer energy that Tom and his house embody.
Meandering botanical forms, gestural dancing, and sweeping birds converge into fluid loops. 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 Gaia Alari’s Lilting
Last week, the NY Times dropped a list of The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century , as picked by a panel of “more than 500 influential stars, showrunners and other notable names in the world of TV”. The rankings have already been dissected online six ways from Sunday, but the
Her new paintings remind us that the world is a room we share with strangers, most of whom are looking elsewhere.
Yusuf Ali Osman, a man with no sight, filed a suit against the museum under the UK's anti-discrimination Equality Act.
Don’t Cook That : a collection of real recipes that you shouldn’t make. Cholera remedy recipe calls for “equal parts laudanum, rhubarb, double-strength capsicum, camphor and spirits of nitre”.
The 63-year-old artist, who was unhoused, was known as the “Grandma Moses of Central Park” for her various depictions of its fauna and flora.
From the Control Rooms group on Flickr . 🤩 So many little details in all of these photos to pore over. See also Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green , The User Experience Design of Lego Interface Panels , Inside NORAD’s Cheyenne Mountain Combat Center (c. 1966) , and
"The Irish author Sebastian Barry has made a career of mining his family history. But he kept one story buried."