The Looter Who Built Your Favorite Museum
A new book maps the network that allowed Douglas Latchford to violently rip Khmer statues from their homes and funnel them into Western institutions.
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Art Movements: Wolfgang Tillmans Wins Europe's Richest Art Prize
The first public exhibition of Jack White's artwork, Cheryl Finley gets the David C. Driskell Prize, and more news to know.
Required Reading
This week: a record-breaking World Cup mural in Mexico City, the Gen Z of 19th-century France, van Gogh and AI, and more.
Matte Marble Dust Glimmers Across Marin Majic’s Enigmatic Scenes
Marin Majic uses marble dust to accentuate and define light, creating a twinkling effect with otherwise matte stone. 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
David Humphrey Is Allergic to Style
The artist challenges the status quo of postmodernism, not by knocking it over but by slyly subverting it.
From The Mandalorian and Grogu, an extended loop of...
From The Mandalorian and Grogu, an extended loop of Shakari , a synth-y track from composer Ludwig Göransson. See also Niamos from Andor (composed by Nicholas Britell).
Figurative Expressionist Painter Jay Milder Dies at 92
He carved out a space for himself in the downtown art scene as a bold artist and gallerist who championed contemporaries such as Claes Oldenburg and Jim Dine.
A Look Into Frank Stella's Mesmerizing Collection of Diné Textiles
The late artist's trove of Navajo weavings is on public display for the first time at Arader Galleries in NYC ahead of a sale.
Not a surprise but nice to have the data: the Federal...
Not a surprise but nice to have the data: the Federal Reserve calculated that inflation would be much lower without Trump’s stupid tariffs .
Two video upgrades
It took me thirty years to populate the bookshelf that’s behind me in most of my videos. Most of us don’t have the time or patience to do that. At the same time, the wonky computer-generated background many people use on Zoom calls undermines the impact and authority you might
The Backward Index
How do dictionary makers keep track of similarly suffixed words, like those ending in -ism, -graphy, -ness, or -ology? With a computer, it’s simple, but how did they do it before the computing age? Starting in the 1950s, lexicographers at Merriam-Webster typed all of the words
On The Fuel Efficiency of Launching My Enemies Into The...
On The Fuel Efficiency of Launching My Enemies Into The Sun . Incredibly nerdy and fun: does it require more power to eject a person from the solar system or launch them into the Sun?
I Turned Off My Phone for a Month and Used a Landline
"No texts, no Instagram, no subway Slack."
The Rise & Fall Of ‘Petty Tyrants’ . “The energy...
The Rise & Fall Of ‘Petty Tyrants’ . “The energy required to deceive is unsustainable. Reality is relentless. The tyrant who chooses to fight it is doomed.”
Down with -maxxing! Searching for the absolute best...
Down with -maxxing! Searching for the absolute best option isn’t always the wisest course of action . Better to make a good-enough choice so “a great deal of energy gets freed up for living, instead of being spent on wondering about how to live”.
Christina Mrozik Illustrates an ‘Emotional Ecosystem’ Oracle Deck with Fantastical Forms
"Each drawing took between 20 to 40 hours of focused work," the artist writes. 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 Christina Mrozik Illustrates an
There are no lightsabers in The Mandalorian and Grogu, a...
There are no lightsabers in The Mandalorian and Grogu, a first for Star Wars films . There are also no Wilhelm screams in the movie, which is weird because I thought I heard snippets of it everywhere (even Mando’s blaster sounded a little Wilhelm-ish).
A Tour of Athens’ Acropolis, Explained with 3D Reconstructions
Since it was first built as a Mycenaean fortress in the thirteenth century BC, what we now know as the Acropolis has been used to worship not just Greek gods, but also, in later periods, the Virgin Mary and Allah. Now, of course, with its days of military and religious
100 Iconic Moments From Sir David Attenborough
Let’s the keep the David Attenborough love going: this is a six-hour video featuring 100 of the most iconic moments from the famed naturalist’s work. I got this via Enrique , who rightly asserts that “There’s no such thing as too much David Attenborough.” See also Three Hours
Consider the Sister : an interview with Amy Wallace....
Consider the Sister : an interview with Amy Wallace. “It was hard work being David Foster Wallace’s little sister. It still is. The job of preserving the memory of her brother as a complex, vibrant, often joyful person has fallen to her.”
I, Sisyphus, Am Ninety-Five Percent of the Way There ....
I, Sisyphus, Am Ninety-Five Percent of the Way There . “Honestly, folks, we are so, so close. The summit is largely visible. It is nearly visible. There is a concept of visibility at play here that is impossible to ignore.”
A Leonora Carrington Biopic Traces the Surrealist Icon’s Life and Work
"Don't you think it's dangerous to blur the distinction between abstraction and reality?" 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 Leonora Carrington
Life recombined
In the early 1970s, genetic engineers launched the most controversial revolution in science since the atomic bomb - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
“In Minor Keys” Is the Biennale’s Crown Jewel
Also, Aruna D’Souza interviews Australian Pavilion artist Khaled Sabsabi.
Flickering Enlightenment
Attacked by the Left and Right, the Enlightenment can only be saved through use of its greatest legacy: permanent critique - by Eliane Glaser Read on Aeon
Unpaid labor
It’s possible you use social media to grow your business. Or to enhance your career. Or maybe it’s to find delight and joy. When you add up all the tikking, tokking, tweeting and clicking, what’s the return on that investment? Is your vacation more fun when you spend it taking
The Unexpected Math Behind Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”
If you’ve taken a good art history course on the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, you’ve inevitably encountered Vincent van Gogh’s 1889 masterpiece “Starry Night,” which now hangs in the MoMA in New York City. The painting, the museum writes on its website, “is a