ICE Seizes 22,000 Antiquities in Florida
The seizure of the allegedly smuggled artifacts comes amid the agency’s escalating violence and the Department of Homeland Security’s waiver of cultural preservation safeguards.
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China Withdraws from Gwangju Biennale in Protest of Taiwan’s Inclusion
The news comes just nine days after the South Korean biennale reinstated the name “Taiwan Pavilion” after it was omitted from initial press materials.
Denizens of a Crowded City Populate Erin Milez’s Dense Paintings
Milez's new body of work goes on view this month in 'Everything the Light Touches' at Monya Rowe Gallery. 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 Denizens
Autumnal Open Thread
My move is coming down to the wire (omg so many things to juggle!), kids are heading back to school, I’m going to be traveling, and it’s a holiday weekend here in the States, so there’s probably not going to be too much going on here until next week. Thanks for your patience…I
40 Filmmakers in 25 Countries Team Up for an Ode to Nature Shot Entirely on Super 8 Cameras
Bringing together 40 collaborators in 25 countries across five continents, 'Super Nature' is a collective ode to our planet. 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.
In “Whistler,” Ann Patchett Tackles Loss and Art
The beloved author’s new novel tells a story of familial loss and reconnection, beginning with a chance encounter at The Met. But why does it seem to imply that grief and art are at odds?
Going Home with Wendell Berry
"The writer and farmer on local knowledge, embracing limits, and the exploitation of rural America."
10 Art Shows to See in Upstate New York This September
Legendary gallerist Betty Parsons, the book art stylings of R. B. Kitaj, a celebration of Milton Avery’s family, and more.
75,000 Patterned Paper Kites Cascade in Jacob Hashimoto’s Largest-Ever Installation
Hashimoto’s elaborate 'Giant Arc' installation is a vibrant "cloud canopy" at SFMOMA. 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 75,000 Patterned Paper Kites
Writer, journalist, and feminist activist Gloria Steinem...
Writer, journalist, and feminist activist Gloria Steinem has died . She was 92.
The Anatomy of a Journalism Scandal
"The first time 'The New York Times' had lost a defamation case in over half a century."
Trump Somehow Mad at Stick Figure
Joel Shapiro sculpture removed at the Kennedy Center, how Snoopy unleashed America's imagination, and the untold history of Black American dyeing traditions.
The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Jon Ronson
The author of The Castle likes his music in a time capsule and silence in his home—but definitely not in his stories.
Neuroqueering on the lawn
Hans Christian Andersen’s tantrum in Charles Dickens’s garden was a case of ‘too muchness’, emotions bursting past respectability - by Siobhan Unwin & Kathryne Ford Read on Aeon
What it is like to be a dog?
We have no idea. Of course, there’s plenty of behavioral data. Say this phrase, or offer that treat, and this particular dog is likely to act in a certain way. But our inclinations about what it’s actually like to be a dog are all inventions, reverse-engineered to give us a
Wes Anderson Picks Nine of His Favorite Criterion Films
Many an internet cinephile has wondered aloud if the Criterion Closet is a real place, or just a set thrown together to make videos when famous directors like Christopher Nolan, Francis Ford Coppola, or Jim Jarmusch drop by. It turns out indeed to exist, not only at Criterion’s
Discover J.R.R. Tolkien’s Personal Book Cover Designs for The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
In some rare cases, adaptations and interpretations of a literary work can surpass the source. Despite hundreds of valiant efforts on the part of fans, filmmakers, game/toy designers, and radio producers, this has never been true of the fully-realized fantasy world in J.R.R.
The Creative Power of Uncertainty: Polish Poet Wisława Szymborska’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
"Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous ‘I don't know.’"
Italo Calvino on Reading and Sex
"Lovers’ reading of each other’s bodies... differs from the reading of written pages in that it is not linear... What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space."
The Paradox of Knowing Who You Are and What You Want: Cristina Campo on Fairy Tales, Time, and the Meaning of Maturity
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales,” Einstein reportedly told one mother who wished for her son to become a scientist. “If you want them to be very intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” Given that the deepest measure of intelligence is a
Venice Biennale President Defends Russia Inclusion in New Interview
Pietrangelo Buttafuoco said he would do “everything” again if he had to, despite the Italian Culture Ministry’s backlash and the European Commission's stripped funding.
Wendell Berry on Hope, Despair, and the Measure of Effective Protest
The current of life is charged by the poles of hope and despair. What we make of our hopes and their devastation may be the purest measure of who we are and what we leave behind. Protest is what we call the resistance we launch against our reasons for despair — personal,