Divination, Mark Making, Boxing, & Drawing: "Tracey Rose" at Ruby City
Opening June 6 in San Antonio, Texas, “Tracey Rose” offers viewers an intimate look at the artist’s groundbreaking multidisciplinary practice including performance and drawings.
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Summer Fridays, Open Thread
I’m observing summer Fridays here at KDO again this year, which means I (mostly) won’t be posting here on Fridays. If past years are any guide, this doesn’t actually have too much of an effect on how much I work or post…more of a redistribution of time & effort. But it’s nice
Illustrated break-downs of how common objects work ....
Illustrated break-downs of how common objects work . Currently featuring a mechanical pencil, PEZ dispenser, retractable pen, and Zippo lighter.
The Inside Story of the Athens Music Scene
"How did the college football town spawn the B-52s, R.E.M., and Widespread Panic, to name just a few? The maestros and misfits who led Athens’s rise to one of the world's most influential and improbable music towns tell all."
Mass Cuts at Pace Gallery
The mega gallery cuts 100 workers and artists. Plus, a terrible movie about Kate Moss and Lucian Freud, and honoring the giant behind “Persepolis.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Recommending notable stories by Wyatt Williams, John Leland, Jonathan Weiner, Suzy Hansen, and Max Ufberg.
How to teach marketing
Trick title. There are at least three kinds of “marketing” we ought to be teaching: Most organized marketing instruction is about the first or second, with some online courses teaching hustle and hype, which I don’t count as marketing. My best work is about the third kind, the
What Happens When the Author Directs the Movie: How Robert Rodriguez Recruited Frank Miller to Co-Direct Sin City
In the nineteen-nineties, Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez first collaborated on a movie. No, it wasn’t From Dusk Till Dawn, the Rodriguez-directed crime-picture-turned-horror-comedy in which Tarantino plays George Clooney’s psychotic brother. It was an anthology picture
Art Movements: Meet MoMA's New Photo Chief
Also, the Asian Cultural Council awards $1.6M in grants to artists, and at least one sector of the art market is hot as hell.
Very Necessary Qualifications of a Great Storyteller
Toni Morrison once lamented that people have been taught to think of a book as a mirror, when it ought to be a door. All great storytelling — be it a novel or a poem, a film or a song — enchants us precisely because it swings open the door to a world distinctly other than our
“Descartes Against Humanity” and Other Games Designed by...
“Descartes Against Humanity” and Other Games Designed by Famous Philosophers .
Marjane Satrapi, "Persepolis" Author and Human Rights Fighter, Dies at 56
One of her friends said the artist and filmmaker “died of sadness” after her husband’s death just over a year ago.
Chipotlai Max is an AI agent that runs on “stolen...
Chipotlai Max is an AI agent that runs on “stolen compute” from Chipotle’s AI chat bot. They are looking to borrow from bots from Ikea, Expedia, Home Depot, and others.
Required Reading
This week: Esperanto on Duolingo, a Black Panther Party stud grandma, Arsenal and Africa, queer fish, the secret leftist history of Renaissance faires, and more.
The Life and Death of Sports Fans
Team Spirit is a wonderful short film for ESPN by Errol Morris about the funerals of die-hard sports fans. I love the Steelers fan laid out in a recliner under a Steelers blanket in front of a television with a Steelers game on as if “he just fell asleep watching the game”.
The Black Photographers Who Exposed My Own Brainwashing
An exhibition at The Getty gave me the peculiar feeling of peeking behind a curtain in my own house and discovering new things about a topic I thought I knew well.
The official trailer for season three of Silo . Looks...
The official trailer for season three of Silo . Looks like we finally get some origin story stuff (well, more than a brief scene at least).
Don’t Feed the Ducks! A Zany Animation Predicts the Absurd Outcomes of Ignoring the Rules
How many people actually heed the warnings about not feeding ducks waddling around public parks? 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 Don’t Feed the
Pace Gallery Cuts 50 Workers and 50 Artists, Citing a “Broken” Gallery Model
The layoffs and reductions come amid ongoing market uncertainty and the disastrous collapse of crypto-backed art ventures, of which Pace was an early adopter.
Pace Cuts 50 Workers and 50 Artists, Citing a “Broken” Gallery Model
The layoffs and reductions come amid ongoing market uncertainty and the disastrous collapse of crypto-backed art ventures, of which Pace was an early adopter.
On this date in 2004, the Killdozer rampage took place ....
On this date in 2004, the Killdozer rampage took place . “The bulldozer effortlessly demolished cars and buildings, including the home of a former mayor, the office of a newspaper that had sided against him in an editorial…”
Jamelle Bouie: The cruelty is still the point of the...
Jamelle Bouie: The cruelty is still the point of the Trump regime . “This isn’t a border security policy. It’s cruelty as governance — directed at people this administration has decided don’t deserve dignity.”
Jeanne Vicerial’s Ethereal Sculptures Dot Historic Spaces in Aix-en-Provence in ‘Incarnation’
The French artist's textile-focused practice taps into history and femininity with precision and reverence. 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 Jeanne
How Three Chess Friends Battled Demons and Saved Two Lives
"A homeless chess hustler, a scholar and an aging recluse found hope in a trashed apartment by Central Park."
We Are Manipulating the Weather Every Day
Throughout most of human history, the weather has resisted humanity’s desire to change it . For thousands of years, we have sacrificed children, sung songs and danced, brewed alchemical concoctions, chanted prayers, fired cannons, and made many other futile efforts in the
The Best Part of “Moss & Freud” Is When It’s Over
In the film, Kate Moss is looking for the right man to get her sober, and Lucian Freud is a Great Man who magically sees the “truth” in young women.
As time passes, efforts to document the Tiananmen Square...
As time passes, efforts to document the Tiananmen Square protests intensify . “History cannot only be written by officials. If you don’t have real information, it’s difficult for you to have independent thought.”
America Today: Voices in Contemporary Print
On view at The Print Center through July 25, the exhibition highlights the power of print as a medium for expressing political ideals and urgent societal concerns.
