I would never have proposed this exhibition in her lifetime. This is, after all, a writer who said in an interview, “Don’t shove me into your damn pigeonhole, where I don’t fit, because I’m all over.”
Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about this 2015 observation on Tumblr about the dangerous conflation of respect of personhood and the respect of authority.
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Glimpse an atmospheric day in the life of an elite high-diving camp in a short film by Geordie Wood. 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 Wade into
The main point of Adam Bonica’s post The Wall Looks Permanent Until It Falls is about the optimism of this moment: that the US could be ripe for a Berlin Wall-falling moment that opens the door for a better future. I’m not in the mood for that message these days (IMO, our
Astronomers have discovered an “almost-galaxy” called Cloud-9 (no, really), a failed galaxy that contains no stars. “There’s nothing like this that we’ve found so far in the universe.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
More than 3,000 historical scientific microscope slides are conserved and digitized to enable greater access. 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
Condé Nast forgot to renew the trademark for Gourmet and so a group of journalists grabbed it and are relaunching the food magazine as a worker-owned co-op . Love it . 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
The contemporary art museum's new exhibition, opening in June, will focus on artists living and working in Connecticut.
Discover the 100-Year-Old Self-Playing Violin, One of the Most Complex Music Players Ever Made . “It featured three vertically mounted violins, each with a single active string, played by a rotating bow of 1,300 horsehairs.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
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The contemporary art institution in Manhattan shuttered in 2024 to undergo a 60,000-square-foot expansion.
"Wyoming’s 3.5 billion-year-old geologic history reminds us that Earth is ever-changing."
As we approach the 100th anniversary of the birth of a jazz legend, look back on the staggering impact of his work and its continued relevance
"As demand for luxury watches has rocketed, the business has become beset by skulduggery."
Perspectives of Venezuela and Cuba from exile, an exhibition of artwork made by children in Gaza, and remembering Colombian artist Beatriz González.
This is the first rule of safe driving. Don’t hurtle your car into a jam where you have no options. But the first rule of management and human interaction is to leave other people an out. When you give people a chance to take action that helps them get to where they’re going,
Our problems are too vast, our distance from them too great. How do we navigate our derangement of scale?
Humanity was already enjoying motion pictures a century ago. But the ability to do so at home still lay a few decades in the future, and the ability to pull up a movie on demand through a streaming service much further still. Young people in the twenty-twenties may be unable to
One potential drawback of genius, it seems, is restlessness, a mind perpetually on the move. Of course, this is what makes many celebrated thinkers and artists so productive. That and the extra hours some gain by sacrificing sleep. Voltaire reportedly drank up to 50 cups of
While often associated with Pop Art, her practice was rooted in the specificities of local visual culture, depicting political events, violence, and loss.
“I feel stuck and sad and I don’t know what else to do.” Yeah, same.
The works are part of a new benefit exhibition organized by the global early childhood education star, a vocal supporter of Palestinian children.
An indie game studio in South Africa has developed a heist adventure that reframes play, memory, and repatriation.
Bees use polarized sunlight scattered by the atmosphere in order to navigate; they always know where the sun is, even if it’s cloudy or behind a mountain. Then they waggle dance to inform their hive-mates about food source locations. So if a bee wants to fly straight towards
The traumas of war and genocide and the fascist leanings of Salvador Dalí are among the subjects that this sprawling exhibition leaves out.
