The artist's solo exhibition, 'Flora & Flight,' continues through the end of the month at Arch Enemy Arts in Philadelphia. 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
Robin Sloan writes about the personalized, AI-written, promo emails he’s been getting recently (I have too). “The form is subtler than a one-sized-fits-all promo blast, but it sucks way worse, because it’s fundamentally dishonest.”
Trump's new golden statue in Miami has been compared to the Golden Calf, but it's more akin to a Moloch idol.
Palantir, the data analysis defense contractor co-founded by Peter Thiel, was named after the magical seeing stones from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings books. This video compares the ethos of the company with that of Tolkien. The palantiri of The Lord of the Rings are sort
This week, we honor a Swiss collector, a discerning art critic, and a champion of performance art.
Meet the Sad Wives of AI . “Princess Diana famously said there were three people in her marriage. For the sad wives of AI, the third is a chatbot.”
Held from May 21 to 24, this year’s edition brings together over 110 galleries from 18 countries and proposes a more balanced and resilient collecting ecosystem.
Just dropped: Foo Fighters’ Tiny Desk Concert . The setlist includes Learn to Fly, My Hero, and Everlong.
Official portraits show Israeli soldiers turning their backs on the camera, ostensibly to protect them from prosecution for war crimes. The gesture is a tacit admission of guilt.
Two sequences from Dr. Strangelove done in Lego: Muffley’s call to Kissoff on the hotline in the war room and Dr. Strangelove’s increasingly erratic presentation of his plan to preserve humanity in a mine shaft. This is really well done. (via bb ) [This is a vintage post
"Chinese-born tech workers have fueled Silicon Valley for decades. In the AI era, they’re superstars."
Adam Serwer : “Violence serves an authoritarian agenda.”
A map of the regions of the US , as voted on by Reddit users. I think this seems mostly correct? One funny artifact: Washington state got some votes for “Northeast”, probably because ppl confused it with D.C. or with “Northwest”.
The British artist draws on the lineage of nature motifs in art, especially wildlife. 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 Ornamental Carpets Release
"AI-generated images have left us questioning what is real. But the godfather of digital forensics, Hany Farid, is not giving up."
How a public health initiative to reduce air pollution has created ‘full-time citizen complainants’ who patrol the city - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Also, why would a Romano-Egyptian take Homer into the afterlife?
You’re flying over Mount Rainier and a hole opens up in the bottom of your airplane. In that moment, you think hard about what you’ve done, what you’re doing, and what matters. My friend Ty actually had this happen. In that moment, she decided to stop wasting her days on a
The wreck of the RMS Titanic has never ceased to command attention, from pop-cultural fascination to scientific scrutiny and everything in between. That can make it seem, especially to the younger generations, as if humanity has been gazing upon its remains since they first
The stories in the Bible have been told in many ways, not least through film. Among the many cinematic adaptations of Christianity’s holy book, none comes to mind that ends with freeze-frame title cards explaining the later fate of each character, in the manner of Animal House,
Our guide to this week’s many fairs, what to see Upstate, and master printmakers and virtuosos.