Lidar and other discoveries continue to show that the Amazon rainforest was home to a “sprawling ancient civilization much bigger than researchers expected” (possibly up to 3 million people around 100-300 CE).
Hey folks. I just wanted to hop in here quickly to let a cat out of a bag: I am in the midst of moving. Not going to get into the wheres, whys, and hows right now; there’s a bigger post coming at some point about all of that. I’m excited and anxious about the transition (it’s a
"In 2002, a group of friends from North Carolina told a story that ruined all their lives. What if it wasn’t true?"
A new book from Dan Rimada, with photos by Gulce Kilkis, is slated for release in November. 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 ‘Bodega Cats of New
This is an old list but still interesting: the 12 most linguistically influential American movies since 1980 . If you were compiling a list of linguistically influential movies since 2000, what would be on it?
A new report zooms in on data from 10 cities between 2019 and 2024, linking local public investments to stronger performances in the arts sector.
Tressie McMillan Cottom’s reading list for fighting back against Big Tech . “Put simply, there is too much money, some of it too untraceable, giving a small group of unelected people too much power over the people.”
For generations of kids in the twentieth century, few pleasures were as intoxicating as a trip to the comic-book shop with the week’s allowance fresh in hand. Those of us who grew up in the nineties had any number of high-production-value paper superhero spectacles from major
Emily Wilson takes another crack at a critique of Nolan’s “visually stunning, emotionally empty” Odyssey . “Verbally, we are told that people matter; visually, we are shown that they do not.”
Surfing Alaska’s Turnagain Arm (home to a twice-daily tidal bore wave) can be fun (10-foot waves you can ride for miles) but also dangerous: “You need a Plan B, a Plan C and a Plan D because no one is coming to rescue you.”
Wiesenfeld delves into the power of visibility and imagination. 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 Enigmatic Narratives Unfold in Aron Wiesenfeld’s
"Sixty years after the Cultural Revolution began, a writer looks back to her childhood in Beijing during its peak, and the banned books that sustained her through the tumult."
Retracing his grandparents’ journey to Iceland’s Vatnajökull glacier, a writer draws on storytelling to grasp climate change - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Iris van Herpen is making a collective garment at the Brooklyn Museum, Trump’s Smithsonian warpath, and Rice University goes tuition-free for many.
They’re often out of whack. A Hard Day’s Night took less than 15 hours from idea to finished record. More Than a Feeling, from Tom Scholz and Boston, took five years. Each pleased their audiences. One is not 1,500 times more valuable than the other. Sometimes, work that
I’ve never quite understood why the phrase “revisionist history” became purely pejorative. Of course, it has its Orwellian dark side, but all knowledge has to be revised periodically, as we acquire new information and, ideally, discard old prejudices and narrow frames of
In recent years, science has been learning more and more about how central the role of inflammation is to our health . “The paradox that often makes treating chronic inflammation so difficult: It can be vital and harmful at the same time.”
What to see around the city this summer, pleating with an elite fashion designer at the Brooklyn Museum, and hi from Rhea!
"A cutting-edge gene-editing trial in China went disastrously wrong. A family wants accountability."
Huh, here’s the trailer for a new director’s cut (of sorts) of the second X-Files movie (called I Want to Believe, orig. released in 2008) that, per Wikipedia , “will restore horror elements that were previously removed”.
But while those numbers are still preliminary, there are other, quieter ways in which the White House is trying to control how the institution uses available funding.
The announcement comes less than a year after the Houston university opened a new $76M home for its art department.
She will return to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation after helming the North Carolina Museum of Art for nearly eight years.
I don’t know what sort of neurodiverse bucket this puts me in, but I think a lot about mowing the lawn 1 relative to how much time I actually spend mowing lawns (~6-7 hours per year). And so I was completely fascinated by The Pudding’s latest post on optimal lawn mowing paths
Her first exhibition in Toronto for 30 years captures her single-minded focus on the needle as a metaphor for folding and unfolding, memory and displacement.
“ poetry camera is a new way to see your world. take a photo with the camera… poetry camera thinks… and prints out a poem about the scene.”
En Iwamura is interested in the ways we measure and understand the spaces between ourselves and others. 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 Tiny Faces
A show at the Brooklyn Museum invites guests to work alongside the Dutch fashion designer in her recreated atelier.
The Phone in Your Hand . “A layer-by-layer teardown of the most intricate object you’ve ever held.”