For Koh, an under-appreciated element of a book's construction becomes the highlight. 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 Heritage Bookbinding Elements
A new documentary follows the work of activist and photographer Misan Harriman, but risks overly aestheticizing the movements he captures.
“Help Wanted / Leave Now” traces the infamous “Operation Wetback” implemented by Eisenhower in 1954 to expel undocumented Mexican workers.
Slide through a teddy bear, get weird with a neural network’s hallucinations, play ping-pong on an artist-made table, and so much more.
Activists have called on artists to boycott the new museum, citing inhumane treatment of workers.
Treasure Hill served as a Japanese ammunition depot and Kuomintang squatter settlement prior to its reopening as an artist village in 2010.
Staff members allege they were “denied sufficient time during the day for toilet breaks or for drinks.”
The Central West Astronomical Society of New South Wales marks its annual AstroFest with an amateur photography competition. 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.
"In 2002, Leslie Buck died under mysterious circumstances in Mystic, Connecticut. Two decades later, I went back to find out who she was — and what really happened."
Set against uninterrupted backgrounds, metallic portraits float almost deity-like amid vibrant color. 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 Reflections
"Amid tight Israeli restrictions, new remote research is starting to make visible the scale of toxic fallout across the Gaza Strip."
Remembering the pioneering performance artist, who died on Wednesday at 91. Plus: Trump gives two gilded statues in DC a makeover.
In this edition: in a pickle; gut feeling; king of pain; life (or something like it); for those about to rock.
Through international organisations, they wield power under the pretence of simply following the experts. Don’t believe them - by Jan Eijking Read on Aeon
We transferred an idea from engineering to culture, but it’s incomplete. If you build a watch that doesn’t tell time, it’s fair to say it doesn’t work. But when a critic says, “that joke didn’t work,” after seeing a comic perform to a raucous audience, what they probably mean
Open Culture readers may know John Green best for Crash Course, the YouTube channel that teaches everything you need to know about subjects like world history, U.S. history, big history, literature, and philosophy. Or at least it teaches everything a teenage student facing down
In the middle of my bleakest winter, my friend Andrea gave me a battered copy of a forgotten book from her elderly father’s used bookshop in rural Texas, by a man named Hockley Clarke. I inhaled it in a day. Born in England in the final year of the nineteenth century, Hockley
"We must live it, now, a day at a time and be very careful not to hurt each other."
The Onion: Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation. The actual Wilson on Bluesky : “No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this.” Most fun movie discourse since Barbenheimer.