Trump Proclaims Gold-Studded Oval Office a National Monument
"It will not be allowed to be touched by anybody,” Trump said, which is flatly not true, as anyone can reverse the proclamation.
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Susan Silton's Loud and Proud Whistle
A Los Angeles exhibition surveys the groundbreaking queer artist's multi-decade career, including her memorable work on the politics of vocal expression.
USPS Announces Mythical Creatures Stamps for 2027
The US Postal Service recently released a partial list of the stamps it’s putting out in 2027. One of the sets is Mythical Creatures , featuring five cryptids. 1 The legend of Mothman has endured for more than six decades, but of the creatures encountered on these stamps, this
How to Build a Police State. “Bukele didn’t declare a...
How to Build a Police State . “Bukele didn’t declare a dictatorship on day one. He built toward it incrementally, each step framed in the language of anti-corruption, public safety or efficiency.”
Bats, Spiders, and Slime Molds Make the Close-Up Photographer of the Year Shortlist
The competition saw its highest-ever number of entries this year. 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 Bats, Spiders, and Slime Molds Make the Close-Up
How Much Wealth Does It Take to be Safe in the United States?
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and illustrator Mona Chalabi’s new book is about wealth inequality in America. Ten Lives: How What We Have Shapes Who We Are ( Amazon ) follows ten people with ten different incomes, from the bottom 10% to the top 10% and everything
Pablo Neruda on How to Hold Time
“Time is a river that sweeps me along, but I am a river,” Borges wrote. “Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.” Most of us are not Borges. Most of us are drowning in bewilderment at where the time goes, burning with the urgency of being alive while waiting to
Great title for an article about London’s invasive...
Great title for an article about London’s invasive parakeet population: The Pollycrisis . “Do we want tens of thousands of Himalayan parrots squabbling all over our cities?”
Amy Genser’s Elaborate Mulberry Paper Assemblages Undulate Like the Sea
Genser's undulating abstractions evoke marine swells, reefs, and the topography of the sea floor. 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 Amy Genser’s
In search of a bargain
The ebook of The Knot is on sale today for less than $5 in the US. Thanks for checking it out. Also, here’s a preview of the three-book holiday bundle. It’s limited to the first 170 folks.
Call for Proposals: Roman Witt Residency at the University of Michigan
This residency at the U-M Stamps School, in partnership with the U-M Museum of Art (UMMA), offers artists a $20,000 honorarium, housing, studio space, and a culminating exhibition in UMMA’s prominent Stenn Gallery.
100 Big Unanswered Scientific Questions
The NY Times recently asked 100 scientists from across dozens of disciplines: “What is a big unanswered question in your field?” Here are some of their questions that caught my eye: 4. When and where did the cognitive capacities that made language, mathematics and complex
Fall 2026 Art and Architecture Books from Yale University Press
The Bayeux tapestry, a new biography of Edward Hopper, The Met's exhibition catalogue on Krasner and Pollock, what architecture is, and more
How Miles Greenberg Got “WAR” Past the Censors
“There was not a single outlet, institution, or gallery that wanted to get behind this thing,” the artist told Hyperallergic about his new, six-hour performance piece.
Another banger from neal.fun: Battle Draw. Sort of an...
Another banger from neal.fun: Battle Draw . Sort of an open world tower defense “game”?
Pinot Noir: Inside the Criminal Gangs Making Fake Wine
"Fraudsters have long counterfeited high-end wine. Now they are coming for the bottles on your supermarket shelves."
Inside the Trial of Russell Brand
"Tom Lee sat through all 18 days of the would-be guru’s trial."
When Anesthesia Goes Wrong
"A teenage boy went into surgery for a broken arm and emerged with brain damage. His mother was determined to figure out what had happened."
The wholehearted life
Roshi Joan Halifax is an original, generous, gritty and profound Buddhist teacher. How does she look back on her life? - by Ben Daitz Read on Aeon
Mona Chalabi on Money and Art
An interview with the Pulitzer Prize winner, Lori Waxman on bringing sexy back in Chicago, stolen Picasso prints found, and the problem with clouds.
Bright Star
"A mixed-age permaculture school in Mexico is showing how an education based on autonomy and care prepares students better for life."
Bad employees/bad bosses
When an organization is struggling, it’s tempting for the boss to blame the team. I’m not sure the evidence supports this. After all, other similar organizations are thriving–drawing from precisely the same labor pool. Sure, it’s easier to be a coach if Michael Jordan is on
The Painting Nobody Wanted: How Matisse’s The Red Studio Went from a London Nightclub to a Masterpiece of Modern Art
A journalist paid Henri Matisse a visit not long after he’d painted The Red Studio in 1911. “I like it, but I don’t completely understand it,” the artist is quoted as admitting of that latest work. “I like it, but I don’t know why I precisely painted it this way.” The painting
The Downfall of a Top Cop
Willy Van Mechelen was one of the most celebrated police officers in Belgian history, responsible for solving infamous kidnappings, robberies, and murders. Then Antwerp’s lucrative drug trade came calling.
When Charles Dickens Met Edgar Allan Poe
“There comes Poe with his raven,” wrote the poet James Russell Lowell in 1848, “like Barnaby Rudge, / Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.” Barnaby Rudge, as you may know, is a novel by Charles Dickens, published serially in 1841. Set during the anti-Catholic
What Makes You Yourself: Earth’s Largest Living Organism and the Paradox of Personhood
Bigger than Manhattan, Earth’s largest living organism sways in the surf south of Australia: Posidonia australis — a species of seagrass that, unable to flower, clones itself. Older than mathematics and the written word, it has been cloning itself since before the pyramids were
Mona Chalabi Paints a Picture of Class Inequality
“The crisis is the system that we’re in,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning data journalist and artist says in an interview with Hyperallergic about her first book, “Ten Lives.”
Son Lux’s Music Video for ‘Out Into Us’ Is an Atmospheric Foray Between Past and Present
In a joint commission by MASS MoCA and Pioneer Works in collaboration with producer Alex Cook, the recent music video is an atmospheric mini-epic. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as
Crimson Star
Watch the Sun’s atmosphere pulse and flow in extreme UV . Images are from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory and “conformed, repaired, graded, blended, rescaled & retimed” by Seán Doran, whose video work is always incredible. It would be great to see this in IMAX or some other
Clouds Were Once Photography’s Greatest Challenge
The Met Museum’s “Chasing Clouds” is a pleasing romp through the technical problem of capturing clouds at photography’s beginning.
