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300+ issues of the UK music magazine NME from 1969-1983...
300+ issues of the UK music magazine NME from 1969-1983 . The ads alone are incredible.
Zarina Brought the World to New York
Her visual idiom was fully embedded in South Asian histories, but she never fell into a too-close relationship with national identity.
Required Reading
This week: Ukrainian mosaics, artists and motherhood, Dolores Huerta speaks out, copaganda in the US, wall labels versus artworks, and is your diet a little bit fascist?
Art Movements: Senga Nengudi Wins Big
The artist is among the Rauschenberg Centennial Award winners, Banksy is (maybe) unmasked, and other industry news this week.
Art Movements: And the $100K Rauschenberg Award Goes to...
Winners of the Rauschenberg Centennial Award, Madeleine Grynsztejn leaves MCA Chicago, Banksy is (maybe) unmasked, and other industry news this week.
“ The Tenth Muse is an art discovery engine. Over...
“ The Tenth Muse is an art discovery engine. Over 120,000 artworks from museums and institutions — searchable by feeling, mood, atmosphere, era, and medium.”
California Schools Cover Cesar Chávez Statues After Abuse Accusations
Institutions are removing references to the Chicano labor leader, who was accused of sexually abusing girls in a new investigation.
California School Covers Cesar Chávez Statue After Abuse Accusation
Institutions are removing references to the Chicano labor leader, who was accused of sexually abusing girls in a new investigation.
Reweaving the Rainbow: Divinations for Living from the Science of Life
I met Willow at a loom on a farm one late-summer day. She was amused that I thought she looked like Mary Shelley, in whose world I’d been immersed for seven years while writing Traversal. Neither of us knew who the other was — Willow turned out to be the co-founder of the
Do the Next Right Thing: Carl Jung on How to Live and the Origin of His Famous Tenet for Navigating Uncertainty
"There is no pit you cannot climb out of provided you make the right effort at the right place... do the next thing with diligence and devotion."
Typos Have Plagued Us for Centuries . There’s the...
Typos Have Plagued Us for Centuries . There’s the 1631 Bible that says “thou shalt commit adultery” but James Joyce resisted some of his corrections: “These are not misprints but beauties of my style hitherto undreamt of.”
‘Their Power Feels Like Mine’: A Dog Sled Racer Says Goodbye to Her Pack
"After years of racing, I wanted to take my sled dogs back into the wilderness."
Paris now has a cycling network bigger than Amsterdam...
Paris now has a cycling network bigger than Amsterdam and “more daily trips in Paris are now made by bike than by car”.
The Human City
Photographer and drone pilot Pio Andrea Peri captured this overhead photo of a Sicilian city called Centuripe. Perched atop hilltops, the city looks like a person from above — even on Google Maps . (via daily overview ) Tags: drones · pareidolia · photography · Pio Andrea Peri
Marc Fornes’ New Sculptural Pavilion Reimagines the Architectural Folly
"L'Ile Folie" is a contemporary landmark perched above a pond in Cary, North Carolina. 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 Marc Fornes’ New Sculptural
Gender Play in Nineteenth-Century Theater . “The...
Gender Play in Nineteenth-Century Theater . “The most popular Shakespearean roles for women in the tragic repertoire were Romeo and Hamlet, but women also played Macbeth, Cardinal Wolsey, Shylock, Richard III, and Iago…”
A View From the Easel
“I wish I had a vegetable garden next to my studio and a pig walking around in my workspace.”
A study pitted adults vs little kids to see which was...
A study pitted adults vs little kids to see which was better at making paintings in the style of Jackson Pollack . “The researchers found that the kids’ paintings made in this manner resembled genuine Pollacks more than did those from adult painters.”
Restrained Emotions Simmer in Shinsuke Inoue’s Tender Wood Sculptures
Inoue’s striking characters' small scale belies their infinite inner emotional worlds. 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 Restrained Emotions Simmer
The Docteur Is In
"The Congolese rumba pioneer Docteur Nico helped define the sound of African decolonization—and became one of the great visionaries of the electric guitar."
CONDUCTOR Is New York’s First Art Fair Committed to the Global Majority
From April 30 to May 3, discover 27 galleries and 17 special projects spotlighting artists from across the world at Powerhouse Arts in Brooklyn.
Dawn Wilcox’s quest to chronicle the life & death...
Dawn Wilcox’s quest to chronicle the life & death of every woman in the US killed by a man . “Did women have no choice, Wilcox wondered, but to wander the world hoping never to step on a landmine of a man?”
Checking in with Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests,...
Checking in with Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests, kinetic machine sculptures that move under their own power along the beach. Some of the most recent versions are quick fast and can even tow humans along behind them.
What Forgiveness Takes
Shortly after I began the year with some blessings, a friend sent me Lucille Clifton’s spare, splendid poem “blessing the boats.” We had met at a poetry workshop and shared a resolution to write more poetry in the coming year, so we began taking turns each week choosing a line
It’s the Music You Hear All Day, Without Ever Noticing
“Sync music” has become the soundtrack to our lives — whether we realize it or not.
Running against time
We all want longevity without compromising on quality of life. This 87-year-old achieves both with a daily running habit - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
We Have Thoughts About the New Museum
A sneak peek and honest impressions of the newly expanded Lower East Side institution, an Iranian artist's view of the war from the diaspora, and Asia Week highlights.
Geist in the machine
As the 18th-century war between mechanism and romanticism returns, we face a new question: can we build artificial souls? - by Peter Wolfendale Read on Aeon
Defining Color
"A deep pink that is bluer, lighter, and stronger than average coral, bluer than fiesta, and bluer and stronger than sweet william."
Freedom of focus
Tonight, when you’re off the clock, what will you listen to, watch or read? I imagine that most of us would agree that this is a free choice. To watch a silly video on YouTube, read a book on Greek philosophy from the library or scroll your feeds. We have time (surprisingly
Alan Lomax’s Massive Music Archive Is Online: Features 20,000 Historic Blues & Folk Recordings
A huge treasure trove of songs and interviews recorded by the legendary folklorist Alan Lomax from the 1940s into the 1990s has been digitized and made available online for free listening. The Association for Cultural Equity, a nonprofit organization founded by Lomax in the
Jim Jarmusch Picks His Favorite Films from the The Criterion Collection
Jim Jarmusch—the director of Stranger Than Paradise, Down by Law, and Dead Man—recently stepped into The Criterion Collection closet to share the films that shaped his aesthetic sensibility. In the next three minutes, Jarmusch pays tribute to a box set of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s
The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior: Bertrand Russell’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
"Nothing in the world is more exciting than a moment of sudden discovery or invention, and many more people are capable of experiencing such moments than is sometimes thought."
What Do We Really Think of the New New Museum?
Hyperallergic’s editors sit down for an earnest conversation about the institution’s expanded building and inaugural exhibition.
This is maybe the best baseball catch you’ll ever...
This is maybe the best baseball catch you’ll ever see. Or the most fun one anyway.
Miuccia Prada is worth $4.8 billion. How good of a...
Miuccia Prada is worth $4.8 billion. How good of a person do you expect her to be? “I got to thinking about all this the other day while mulling the curious, oft-repeated fact that Miuccia Prada was, in her 1960s youth, a Communist.”
Remembering Axel Burrough, Kazumasa Nagai, and Éliane Radigue
This week, we honor a pioneering composer, Indigenous muralist, and Upper East Side gallerist.
