The Year I Was Supposed to Die
"At 42, with young kids, I got a devastating diagnosis. I knew I was in for a harrowing journey. I didn’t know quite what kind."
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Columbus Statue at the White House
Trump installs a toppled Columbus statue outside the White House, a Paul Klee exhibition in New York opens without its centerpiece, and photos from Morandi’s studio in Bologna.
The clock in our genes
The biologist Victoria Foe discovered a timing device in ‘junk’ DNA that could unlock the evolution of complex life - by Beatrice Steinert Read on Aeon
Numbers and the human/computer interface
If you tell me your ID number, your phone number or the wiring instructions for your bank account, not only will I forget them, I’ll need you to repeat it a few times so I write it down without making a transcription error. When we first started using serial numbers (the Roman
Lynda Barry on How the Smartphone Is Endangering Three Ingredients of Creativity: Loneliness, Uncertainty & Boredom
The phone gives us a lot but it takes away three key elements of discovery: loneliness, uncertainty and boredom. Those have always been where creative ideas come from. — Lynda Barry In the spring of 2016, the great cartoonist and educator, Lynda Barry, did the unthinkable,
Watch Jazzy Spies: 1969 Psychedelic Sesame Street Animation, Featuring Grace Slick, Teaches Kids to Count
When asked for their favorite Sesame Street segment, many children of the 70s and 80s point to Pinball Number Count. Psychedelic animation, the Pointer Sisters, odd time signatures—what’s not to love? But for the serious Sesame Street buff, the “Jazz Numbers” series above
“ Plain text accounting is a way of doing...
“ Plain text accounting is a way of doing bookkeeping and accounting with plain text files and scriptable, command-line-friendly software.”
Is There an Ethical Path for AI Art?
There is a destabilizing, dreamlike sense of awe in encountering something without knowing the answer to sanity’s most fundamental question: “Is this real?”
My Season of Ativan
"Both of my parents were in hospice, on opposite coasts. Then I found out that I had breast cancer."
White Girls and the Global South
Happy spring! If you've been stuck in a reading slump like me, look no further.
The Angel of History Is Stuck in Jerusalem
The iconic Paul Klee work is missing from an exhibition about fascism at the Jewish Museum in New York due to "current conditions" in Israel.
Just renewed my membership for The Kid Should See This ,...
Just renewed my membership for The Kid Should See This , a genuine internet treasure.
Trump Erects Contentious Columbus Statue Outside White House
The original was among dozens of Columbus monuments toppled in 2020 during nationwide protests against racial violence.
Joel Meyerowitz on Photographing Giorgio Morandi’s Studio
“He was assembling a force field of geometric objects,” said Meyerowitz, whose book of images exploring the painter's famous still lifes is being rereleased this spring.
Do You Actually Have to Finish That Novel?
"A critic considers the strange moral pressure we feel to read to the very last page."
It’s an Open Thread #2
Hey folks. The site is going to be very light this week and early next week — I’m spending some time with my family and accompanying my daughter on some spring break college visits. I’ll be back to full force mid-next week. In the meantime, I thought the open thread we did a
Before the “Global South,” Indian Modernists Dreamed of Solidarity
Historian Atreyee Gupta unravels the threads of catchall terms like “Global South” to trace the connections between Indian painters and anticolonial figures like Frantz Fanon.
An interview with Andy Weir about the accuracy of the...
An interview with Andy Weir about the accuracy of the science in Project Hail Mary . “I’m proud that the only true violation of physics in the story is something you have to go down to the quantum level to find.”
Something Deeper Than Hope: Terry Tempest Williams on Our Stays Against Despair
“If you are now wondering where to look for consolation, where to seek a new and better God,” Hermann Hesse wrote in his wartime manifesto for hope in difficult times, “he does not come to us from books, he lives within us… is in you too… most particularly in you, the dejected
Stephen Morrison’s Trompe-L’œil ‘Dog World’ Paintings Are Fetching
Canine curiosity and play find their way into vibrant paintings that "invite viewers to rediscover the magic and absurdity often obscured by the routine." Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for
How Do Artists Finance Their Lives? Join Us for a Discussion About Mason Currey’s New Book
Join us in Chicago on April 8 to chat art, money, and how the two intersect. 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 How Do Artists Finance Their Lives?
“ Stop naming things after people, living or dead ....
“ Stop naming things after people, living or dead . No schools. No streets. No courthouses. No fountains. Just quit it.”
Meditate to the Undulations of Baltic Sea Ice in Jan Erik Waider’s Hypnotic Videos
Fresh ice formed a thin layer of faceted shapes on the rolling surface that moved gently without breaking apart. 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