Internet Goes Wild for The Met’s Newly Acquired Mannerist Painting
Online reactions to Rosso Fiorentino's recently discovered work might be channeling the very essence of the stylized art movement 500 years on.
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“COVID probably killed 150,000 more people in its...
“COVID probably killed 150,000 more people in its first two years than official U.S. tolls show” . Not surprising when you look at excess mortality numbers for that period.
Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for Living Through the Visitations of the Darkness
"If you can acknowledge it and you can relax with it a little bit, very often it shortens its duration."
A Doomed Mission to Mars Awaits Henry Wood’s Lanky Explorers
The title of the series fits the ill-fated backstory: 'We went to Mars and it was a disaster.' 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 A Doomed Mission to
Create Dangerously: Albert Camus on the Power of Art as Resistance and Creativity as an Instrument of Freedom
"To create today is to create dangerously... The question, for all those who cannot live without art and what it signifies, is merely to find out how, among the police forces of so many ideologies... the strange liberty of creation is possible."
The Invention of Zero: How Ancient Mesopotamia Created the Mathematical Concept of Nought and Ancient India Gave It Symbolic Form
"If you look at zero you see nothing; but look through it and you will see the world."
Lay It Down
"People love John Samson Fellows’s music. He doesn’t want to make it anymore."
Austin Bell Chronicles Every Single One of Hong Kong’s 2,549 Basketball Courts
'SHOOTING HOOPS' conveys a unique portrait of the region. 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 Austin Bell Chronicles Every Single One of Hong Kong’s
The Year I Was Supposed to Die
"At 42, with young kids, I got a devastating diagnosis. I knew I was in for a harrowing journey. I didn’t know quite what kind."
Columbus Statue at the White House
Trump installs a toppled Columbus statue outside the White House, a Paul Klee exhibition in New York opens without its centerpiece, and photos from Morandi’s studio in Bologna.
The clock in our genes
The biologist Victoria Foe discovered a timing device in ‘junk’ DNA that could unlock the evolution of complex life - by Beatrice Steinert Read on Aeon
Numbers and the human/computer interface
If you tell me your ID number, your phone number or the wiring instructions for your bank account, not only will I forget them, I’ll need you to repeat it a few times so I write it down without making a transcription error. When we first started using serial numbers (the Roman
Lynda Barry on How the Smartphone Is Endangering Three Ingredients of Creativity: Loneliness, Uncertainty & Boredom
The phone gives us a lot but it takes away three key elements of discovery: loneliness, uncertainty and boredom. Those have always been where creative ideas come from. — Lynda Barry In the spring of 2016, the great cartoonist and educator, Lynda Barry, did the unthinkable,
Watch Jazzy Spies: 1969 Psychedelic Sesame Street Animation, Featuring Grace Slick, Teaches Kids to Count
When asked for their favorite Sesame Street segment, many children of the 70s and 80s point to Pinball Number Count. Psychedelic animation, the Pointer Sisters, odd time signatures—what’s not to love? But for the serious Sesame Street buff, the “Jazz Numbers” series above
“ Plain text accounting is a way of doing...
“ Plain text accounting is a way of doing bookkeeping and accounting with plain text files and scriptable, command-line-friendly software.”
Is There an Ethical Path for AI Art?
There is a destabilizing, dreamlike sense of awe in encountering something without knowing the answer to sanity’s most fundamental question: “Is this real?”
My Season of Ativan
"Both of my parents were in hospice, on opposite coasts. Then I found out that I had breast cancer."
White Girls and the Global South
Happy spring! If you've been stuck in a reading slump like me, look no further.
The Angel of History Is Stuck in Jerusalem
The iconic Paul Klee work is missing from an exhibition about fascism at the Jewish Museum in New York due to "current conditions" in Israel.
Just renewed my membership for The Kid Should See This ,...
Just renewed my membership for The Kid Should See This , a genuine internet treasure.
Trump Erects Contentious Columbus Statue Outside White House
The original was among dozens of Columbus monuments toppled in 2020 during nationwide protests against racial violence.
Joel Meyerowitz on Photographing Giorgio Morandi’s Studio
“He was assembling a force field of geometric objects,” said Meyerowitz, whose book of images exploring the painter's famous still lifes is being rereleased this spring.
Do You Actually Have to Finish That Novel?
"A critic considers the strange moral pressure we feel to read to the very last page."
It’s an Open Thread #2
Hey folks. The site is going to be very light this week and early next week — I’m spending some time with my family and accompanying my daughter on some spring break college visits. I’ll be back to full force mid-next week. In the meantime, I thought the open thread we did a