From a 2014 article on The Dark Power of Fraternities by Caitlin Flanagan, this is one hell of an opening paragraph: One warm spring night in 2011, a young man named Travis Hughes stood on the back deck of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house at Marshall University, in West
It’s time to de-privatize the US government . “The problem is not just that privatization is often inefficient because it adds a nontransparent layer of profiteering on top of government functions. The problem is that government loses basic capacity.”
"We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves that there may be ground enough for friendship."
Curated by Mia Lopez, 16 artists transform everyday objects into bold explorations of Latinx identity. On view in San Antonio from October 16 through March 7, 2027.
In a world skewed toward artifice, the East Williamsburg performance space’s commitment to confronting, rather than escaping, one’s conditions in art feels like a renaissance.
The artist will present an aria from the still-unfinished opera, “Timaeus and The Teacher,” during the festival's closing program.
The artist will present an aria from the still-unfinished opera, “Timaeus and The Teacher,” during the closing program of the 61st Venice Biennale.
Q: “An AI tool with all your passwords or a bear in the woods?” Signal president Meredith Whittaker : “Look, I know social media wants this. I know you guys want this little clip. But what the fuck? What the fuck?? Both are bad!”
Now on view in Austin, the Haas Brothers' mid-career retrospective plunges visitors into their fantasy world. 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
Here are some photos I’ve taken during my time in Tokyo so far. I’ve been posting new stuff more or less daily to Instagram . Somehow I’m already about halfway through my stay. Somehow these images both capture and don’t even come close to capturing my experience
I wonder what the women standing perpetually accused and anonymous might say about the sale of their stolen images.
See 'Radiant Geometries: Vectors of Knowledge from the Indigenous Americas' at the Moody Center for the Arts in Houston. 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
Dispelling fears that last year's blaze pushed artists away for good, this year's edition proved that the Brooklyn neighborhood’s artistic community is as strong as ever.
“‘Digger’ has a lot of haters. Here’s why they’re wrong.” Digger is fascinating — I can’t remember another big movie where public opinion has been so divided (it’s either genius or garbage). I saw it with a friend and he loved it so much he went again.
Anthropic says that, as of Sept ‘26, they were merging 30,000 code changes per day , a 12-fold increase from just four months earlier. The volume increased so much that they wrote their own Git alternative .
Though he is known primarily for his work of fantastical landscapes and mystical woodland creatures, a new retrospective tells the full story.
Meditating on the connection between physical spaces and the feelings and memories bound within them is central to Ann Toebbe's practice. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7
Artist agents are not the panacea we imagine them to be, but AI agents won’t solve all your problems, either. Paddy Johnson breaks it down.
NASA’s JWST recently snapped this image of the Lion Nebula (NGC 2392) . Massive stars undergo supernova explosions at the end of their lives, but these kinds of events are few and far in between. Most of the universe’s stars have lower masses, like the one belonging to NGC
The late novelist and art critic asked Tom Overton to wait to write his biography until after his death. The result is deeply informative, deferential, and perceptive, sometimes lyrically so.
The Case for Quitting: The Surprising Benefits of Opting Out by Lindsay Crouse. “When perseverance turns against us, quitting isn’t just a way out. Often, it’s the first step to something better. A pivot. A break. A chance to go further — or be free.”
"Our reporting has shown how easily people—some with questionable backgrounds—have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hurdles to open a school are so low, could we do it?"
"A rising subculture of kids says they don’t feel entirely human. Here’s what their parents are learning to do with that."
These women once fled ISIS. Now they defuse the landmines the militants left behind in their Yazidi homeland in northern Iraq - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
John Yau on the Whitney’s retrospective of the Pop titan, an interview on Indigenous perseverance with Congress hopeful Jonathan Nez, and art films to see at DOC NYC.
Marketers and politicians too. We don’t say them because it’s assumed. And because we’re afraid. “I might be wrong.” “I’m just guessing” “This might be selfishly motivated.” “It could be that I’m hallucinating.” “I heard this somewhere but I don’t know firsthand that it’s
Cleopatra cost Twentieth Century Fox $44 million, by the studio’s own estimate. That may sound like the budget of one of those genre pictures that winds up going straight to streaming, but if we convert those 1963 dollars into current ones, it comes out to $480 million. The
Until I read J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, my favorite book growing up was, by far, The Hobbit. Growing up in Russia, however, meant that instead of Tolkien’s English version, my parents read me a Russian translation. To me, the translation easily matched the pace
This is our paradox: We know that uncertainty is the substrate of the universe, is the crucible of creativity, is the path to truth, and yet we spend our lives searching for certainty. The word auspicious derives from the Latin auspex — one who examines the flight of birds for
“If a human did this, it would be an instant Fields Medal, no questions asked.” OpenAI recently released 350+ proofs of mathematical theorems, all in one go . “I imagine many mathematicians, like me, felt like they got punched in the stomach yesterday,”
The first trailer for Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew . I love Gerwig and I know this will be good, but I’m cautiously optimistic that it will be great. (I still forever have “Chronicwhatcles of Narnia” stuck in my head tho…)
Girls is coming back to HBO for a 5-episode run . Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, Zosia Mamet, and Andrew Rannells are all returning. I loved this show and will tune in for sure.