The beloved video game Tetris has a fascinating, complicated history. While the Tetris Company (TTC) claims exclusive rights to the geometric pieces at the heart of the game, known as tetrominoes, history shows that the Russian engineer and game designer duo behind TTC did not,
Lucy Ives reviews The Met’s Krasner-Pollock show, Editor-in-Chief Hakim Bishara interviews outgoing Yaddo President Elaina Richardson, and Aruna D’Souza profiles artist Rana Begum.
When a little girl in Iowa was diagnosed with a rare incurable disease, her parents and their community came together to help her. They wound up making medical history.
Humanity produces a staggering amount of new knowledge every day. The question is how to make sense of it all - by Helen Pearson Read on Aeon
Someone who has seen a lot of movies but has never made one has a certain kind of knowledge. The same is true for clients, patients and students. They haven’t solved a problem, healed a patient or taught a class, but they’ve seen it done. They might have something helpful to
High culture and new technology have never been a natural pairing. As our digital era has often underscored, media innovations tend to be adopted earliest to deliver the most puerile, sensation-driven content, with the more respectable stuff benefiting only later. When the BBC
We have become quite used to pronouncements of doom, from scientists predicting the sixth mass extinction due to the measurable effects of climate change, and from religionists declaring the apocalypse due to a surfeit of sin. It’s almost impossible to imagine these two groups
"So often loneliness comes from being out of touch with parts of oneself."
"It's terribly dangerous for an artist to fulfill other people's expectations"
"Our first questions about the value of a book, of a human being, or a musical composition are: Can they walk? Even more, can they dance?"
Random TV Time : watch old TV pulled from the Internet Archive. 17 channels to surf, including cartoons, 1960s TV, and one that’s only old commercials.
If you’re looking for bias or reparations, these volatile contents are all on the surface, quietly and neatly presented.
"Algorithms lack the spark of the human, whereas ‘authentic culture and art preserve this spark,’" hesaid in a recent speech.
Designer Giorgia Lupi: In Defense of the Detour . “I fear that A.I. is undermining what makes us most human — the ability to translate lived experience and nuanced thoughts into a unique point of view…”
“Turner and the Slave Trade” recasts Romanticism’s relationship to nature and landscape painting as a vehicle for colonial propaganda.
A few years ago, in a forest just outside of Oslo, 1000 trees were planted. In 2114, after a century of growth, the trees will be cut down and made into paper for an anthology of books. Meet the Future Library , an artwork by Katie Paterson . Between now and then, one writer
"The sculptures ask us to consider what happens when artificial beings become old enough to have ancestors..." 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
Stalin Boys is a short documentary about a Joseph Stalin-obsessed middle-schooler from a tiny Texas town who writes a play about the Soviet dictator and enlists his three friends to stage it for the Texas State History Fair. Free to watch online .
After stabilizing, modernizing, and diversifying the century-old artist retreat, Richardson says she's ready for a new chapter.
Nappy is a site offering free stock photos of Black and brown people. ( The site says they’re going offline in a few months due to a falloff in demand bc of AI. Maybe Internet Archive can do their thing here?)
"When I found the mushroom Amanita muscaria being sold in candy wrappers, I uncovered legal loopholes, dangerous dosages and more."
“There’s a lot of construction going on en route. Sometimes I capture the sounds.”
“Art became a tool to communicate, at first,” she told Hyperallergic. "Then it became an obsession.”
Long interested in his ancestry and familial connection to the land, Tang Shuo once again journeys to his home territory. 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
O Superman by artist Laurie Anderson from 1981. Some of the lyrics: ‘Cause when love is gone There’s always justice And when justice is gone There’s always force And when force is gone There’s always Mom Hi, Mom So hold me, Mom In your long arms So hold me, Mom In your long
Workers were prepared to begin their strike during the preview week of a major Roy Lichtenstein retrospective.
Mapping Tariffs explores “the potential impacts of tariffs on jobs and businesses across Canadian cities and communities at the neighbourhood and city level”.
Experiment in the Sam Fox School’s expansive, state-of-the-art facilities, leveraging fellowship, residency, and research opportunities.
After working hard taking away the civil rights of people and granting more powers to our Mob Boss President, Chief Justice John Roberts retreats to a Maine island for the summer. But lately, neighbors are protesting his presence there . Good! No peace!
Calm yet imposing figures evoke the Benin Bronzes, ceremonial masking traditions, and the Moai stones of Easter Island. 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 Comedy Wildlife Awards have announced the finalists for the 2026 competition and, well, these awards never miss. You can almost hear the background music for some of these… Tags: best of · best of 2026 · photography