The More Loving One: The Science of Entropy and the Art of Alternative Endings

"If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me."

Estefania Ajcip’s Sculptural Paintings Unite the Memories of a Separated Family

Through vivid sculptural paintings, Estefania Ajcip peers in on the fractures families face when split apart. 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

Culture • 4h

Jodi Ettenberg on living grief and a serendipitous...

Jodi Ettenberg on living grief and a serendipitous discovery . “Living grief lacks the tapestry of rituals, language, and social permissions around grieving that a person is offered with death.”

Culture • 8h

Chris Kraus, Venice Pavilions, Rina Banerjee

Our favorite national pavilions at the Venice Biennale, Shirley Tse and Dana Berman Duff’s breathing moons, and Dean Millien’s aluminum-foil animal world.

Culture • 12h

Don’t eat if you’re not hungry

That’s not only good dieting advice. It works in just about every endeavor we sign up for. The system would like us to be insatiable on its behalf, but that’s not an invitation we’re required to accept.

Culture • 13h

The Loveliness of Letting Go: An Illustrated Ode to Life’s Lasts

The great cruelty of life, and also its great mercy, is that only hindsight ever knows each last — the last time your lover put their hand on the small of your back, the last sip of the last cup at your favorite coffee shop before it vanished overnight, the last living note of

Culture • 21h

How to Be Un-Dead: Notes on Waking Up from the Trance of Near-Living

"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."