Here we are, bewildered miracles of chemistry and chance, trembling embers of dead stars capable of sign and song, a wild bet against probability that won. We have dreamt up origin myths and cosmological models, built the Taj Mahal and the Large Hadron Collider, to fathom where
The works draw on motifs of migration, but the motifs themselves migrate across the gallery.
Back in 2005, a group of restorers established a hidden workshop in Paris’s Panthéon and snuck into the building for a whole year to repair an antique clock . “The group managed to connect the hideaway to the electricity grid and install a computer…” Wild!
“Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem — in my opinion — to characterize our age.”
For the last 20 years, city-funded grants for individual artists have remained at $5,000.
OrySnack: The Bar Where Bartenders Work From Home . Small robot servers in this Japanese bar are controlled by people who can only work from home because of disability or illness.
Workers at the American Folk Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum, and Guggenheim Museum had bargained for higher pay and better working conditions.
Former artist residents of the LA nonprofit fear leadership has strayed from the radical, queer energy that Tom and his house embody.
Meandering botanical forms, gestural dancing, and sweeping birds converge into fluid loops. 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 Gaia Alari’s Lilting
Last week, the NY Times dropped a list of The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century , as picked by a panel of “more than 500 influential stars, showrunners and other notable names in the world of TV”. The rankings have already been dissected online six ways from Sunday, but the
Her new paintings remind us that the world is a room we share with strangers, most of whom are looking elsewhere.
Yusuf Ali Osman, a man with no sight, filed a suit against the museum under the UK's anti-discrimination Equality Act.
Don’t Cook That : a collection of real recipes that you shouldn’t make. Cholera remedy recipe calls for “equal parts laudanum, rhubarb, double-strength capsicum, camphor and spirits of nitre”.
The 63-year-old artist, who was unhoused, was known as the “Grandma Moses of Central Park” for her various depictions of its fauna and flora.
From the Control Rooms group on Flickr . 🤩 So many little details in all of these photos to pore over. See also Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green , The User Experience Design of Lego Interface Panels , Inside NORAD’s Cheyenne Mountain Combat Center (c. 1966) , and
"The Irish author Sebastian Barry has made a career of mining his family history. But he kept one story buried."
In Munich, Saraceno's ecological and collaborative projects take center stage for a sweeping presentation titled 'Ancestral Futures.' 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
The Bayeux Tapestry of Fascism . “What’s this middle bit?” “Why, that’s the Battle of Legitimate Concerns!”
“ Influencers are the private equity of culture : draining whatever’s ‘cool’ until higher prices and worse experiences push out the original fan base. Then they move on to the next thing, leaving the original to die…” 🎯
“Designed to Be Red: Native American & Indigenous Poster Works” is now on view at Poster House in New York City through February 21, 2027.
The competition welcomed its largest ever number of entries this year from photographers in 112 countries. 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 Wild
In this video , Patrick Hicks tells the story of the development of the classic educational video game The Oregon Trail and how Prince (you know, the genius musical artist) was one of the first people in the world to play the very first version of the game. The basic story is
A “Kelvin wave” powered by El Niño will soon raise sea levels in California “by half a foot or more” . “It’s ‘highly probable’ that California will soon witness its highest sea levels ever recorded.”
"I began to do what I do — reading and writing and thinking about misogyny—because of my dismay at how girls and women are treated on campus, and at other college campuses across America."
The Student Journalists Who Never Let the Cornell Assault Case Go . “Why be financially independent, [editor in chief Sophia Dasser] wondered, if not to publish sharp-edged views of the biggest campus issues?”
Fall of Freedom is back for another round, Alice Neel’s drawings of the Foley Square trials go to auction, and the unsung architect behind DC’s landmark African-American history and culture museum.
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A world of violence sustains itself through guns, poverty and other social ills, but also through the minds it creates - by Megan Kang Read on Aeon
“Vanity” has the same root as “in vain.” Emptiness. Staring at the mirror, focusing on our appearance. It’s an empty pursuit of a not-very-worthwhile goal. But modern vanity is amplified. Culture hooked the toxic emotion of shame to vanity. Now, instead of a chance to be seen