My NADA Sketchbook
I found myself wanting to draw all the three-dimensional pieces at the New York art fair.
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Quaker principles line up quite well with modern...
Quaker principles line up quite well with modern parenting research . “Infused in all of these practices is the conviction that children are not lesser proto-adults, but fellow beings worthy of respect and agency regardless of their behavior.”
The Revolt Against the Girl Bosses…...
The Revolt Against the Girl Bosses… “Empowerment won’t fix the mess we’re in. Women know it now. They’re mad as hell. Anyone trying to sell them advice instead of a way to use that anger to build a better world for women deserves to be fired.”
The Night Witches: The Female Nazi Hunters of WWII
The Night Witches were an all-female Soviet bomber regiment that attacked Nazi forces during World War II. An attack technique of the night bombers involved idling the engine near the target and gliding to the bomb-release point with only wind noise left to reveal their
The Joy of Discovery at 1-54 Art Fair
Though smaller than previous editions, the contemporary African art fair draws our attention to works that are tactile, surprising, and alive with material expression.
Artist Valie Export, Who Saw Right Through the Male Gaze, Dies at 85
Her performances and filmed media works reclaimed the female body through guerrilla modes of delivery that bypassed institutional restrictions.
Arghavan Khosravi Breaks Through Gendered Restrictions in Her Architectural Portraits
Arghavan Khosravi grapples with the structures and ideological strictures that shape our lives. 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 Arghavan Khosravi
25 Books That Capture This American Moment . They...
25 Books That Capture This American Moment . They include Caste by Isabel Wilkerson, Toni Morrison’s A Mercy , Make the Impossible Possible by Bill Strickland, and Rabbit Redux by John Updike.
Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains ....
Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains . “[Some] developers who use AI at work report that they feel like they are de-skilling themselves and losing their ability to do their jobs as well as they used to.”
Frieze New York Is an Assembly-Line Salad
On finding a reprieve from the monotonous rhythm and the art that made me forget I was at a trade show.
A View From the Easel
“The Barbies belong to my six-year-old granddaughter, who sometimes joins me in the studio to paint.”
On “rich guy has an opinion” journalism ,...
On “rich guy has an opinion” journalism , i.e. “entire news stories dedicated to the otherwise unremarkable opinion of a rich person, or news stories that fold the opinions of rich people into their otherwise neutral coverage”.
RISD Grad Show 2026
Graduate student work representing 19 advanced degree programs will be on view online and in person at the Rhode Island Convention Center starting May 21.
World History Timeline
This World History Timeline (2016) shows how nations, empires, and ruling groups shifted and evolved across the globe from 3000 BCE to the present. It takes a second to understand what you’re looking at — I thought it was a sort of stretched geographical map at first. Get your
Nasher Museum’s ‘Everything Now All At Once’ Celebrates Diversity, Resilience, and Joy
Duke University's art museum exhibits dozens of works from Nick Cave, Ai Weiwei, Nina Chanel Abney, Wangechi Mutu, and many others. 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
New York’s Neue Galerie Will Merge With the Metropolitan...
New York’s Neue Galerie Will Merge With the Metropolitan Museum . “The merger will significantly bolster the Met’s holdings of early 20th-century Austrian and German art…”
Lucid Perturbations: The Sewn Drawings and Books of China Marks
This exhibition at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art marks the first major solo exhibition of the artist’s hypnagogic artworks.
The Neanderthal dentist: archaeologists found evidence...
The Neanderthal dentist: archaeologists found evidence of a decayed tooth being drilled out with a stone tools 59,000 years ago . “It’s now the oldest known evidence of dentistry — or any direct medical treatment.”
Sarah Rose (who is blind): “Meta glasses are...
Sarah Rose (who is blind): “Meta glasses are absolute game changers for the blind community… they are completely revolutionary .” And: “It really is incredible to talk to your glasses and ask them what they see and have them tell you.”
Blood-Red Landscapes by Andrew McIntosh Conjure the Terrifying Unknown
Typically gravitating toward dreamy palettes of soft blues, grays, and oranges, Andrew McIntosh opts for a sanguine red. 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
I Spent Months with an AI Companion. It Was Worse than Being Alone
"I hated the mindless reassurance and generic empathy."
Whither the Nerd-Bully?
"Bill Gates was the monopolistic father figure who Silicon Valley’s young founders rebelled against—and, in so rebelling, became."
Mary Lovelace O’Neal Leaves Her Mark
The artist and Civil Rights activist dies at 84, The Met and Neue Galerie merge, and NADA is back with “abstracted horniness.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Featuring stories about celebrity look-alikes, siblings, desert living, philanthrocapitalism, and life inside a legal brothel.
Gen Z but two centuries ago
A generation of young people with ‘full hearts in an empty world’ sought hope in the face of insurmountable malaise - by Emily Herring Read on Aeon
Personally
Professionals take their work seriously. Hobbyists can take it personally. We arrive and make a promise. We do it on behalf of the client, and that promise has little to do with what we might want to do–it’s what they need us to do. And so we make our promises carefully, and
The Forgotten Moment When Superman Fought Prejudice in America Instead of Villains (1950)
It makes sense that Superman would take a tolerant view of immigrants and other minorities, given that he himself arrived on Earth as a refugee from the planet Krypton. The Man of Steel may strike you as an unlikely mouthpiece for progressive ideals, but 1950 found him on a
Mirei Monticelli’s Hand-Woven Banana Leaf Lamps Swell Between Material and Movement
“Human rhythm is what gives the material its character," says the artist. 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 Mirei Monticelli’s Hand-Woven Banana Leaf
Mirei Monticelli’s Hand-Woven Banana Fiber Lamps Swell Between Material and Movement
“Human rhythm is what gives the material its character," says the artist. 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 Mirei Monticelli’s Hand-Woven Banana
Manhattan's Neue Galerie to Merge With Met Museum
Cosmetics billionaire Ronald Lauder's private museum has a vast collection of Austrian and German art.
