Albert Camus on Stubbornness and Creativity
"There is no greatness without a little stubbornness... Works of art are not born in flashes of inspiration but in a daily fidelity."
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Please Don’t Sit on the Flowers
Long-lost Georgia O’Keeffe landscape goes to auction, Brancusi gets lost at MoMA, interview with Doris Salcedo, and is showing at documenta worth it?
The Jewish Sisters in Renoir’s “Pink and Blue”
Author Catherine Ostler follows the lives of the two cherubic girls, whose rarefied lives in an elite, artistic French family would be toppled by the horrors of the Holocaust.
They found a chunk of Mars in the Sahara Desert. A recent...
They found a chunk of Mars in the Sahara Desert . A recent reveals that a rock found a few years ago in Mali is more than 4.1 billion years old and “has a mix of igneous minerals that tells a story about how [Mars’] crust formed”.
Pablo Helguera to Helm the New School’s Vera List Center
Upon his appointment, the artist reflected on the urgency he feels to “make sense of rapidly unfolding events, question prevailing narratives, and imagine alternative futures.”
The Match Archive
The Match Archive is creating “the first research-grade, digital archive cataloging American matchbooks as primary sources for graphic design, commercial culture, and social history”. They haven’t launched a website yet (they’re working on it), but they’ve been sharing some of
An analysis of 59 studies (including a 24-year Danish...
An analysis of 59 studies (including a 24-year Danish study of 1.2 million children) found that the tiny amounts of aluminum in vaccines are not linked to “increased risk of asthma, autism, or autoimmune conditions such as type 1 diabetes” . Of course!
Abstract Wool Compositions Cascade from Weathered Metal in Amine El Gotaibi’s Sculptures
Amine El Gotaibi's new sculptures of metal and wool speak to the tensions between the land and the state and the ways we mark change. 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
The Relationship Between Comedy, Democracy, and AI
“Humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds,” Viktor Frankl wrote in recalling the role of humor as a lifeline to sanity and survival in the Holocaust. Humor is a
“Are sperm counts declining? Are microplastics and...
“Are sperm counts declining? Are microplastics and pesticides affecting male fertility? Does a low sperm count mean you’ll struggle to have children? Howtown investigates the science behind male infertility… ”