Activists rallied at the museum ahead of a benefit for the Debra and Leon Black Family Film Center, decrying the board member’s Epstein connections and his pro-Israel support.
Plus, SITE Santa Fe artists announced, awards for Lorna Simpson and Wolfgang Tillmans, and Penske Media partners with Amazon … because of course.
In “The Battleground of Art,” curator and activist Marco Baravalle dissects the art establishment's co-optation of radical politics and uplifts the stories of collectives that resist it.
Sky Glabush identifies the feelings he associates with a particular place and translates that through color and intuitive interpretations of the terrain. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for
Democratic leaders need to understand that cultural funding cannot stop at large museums and institutions; it must reach the people whose labor makes it possible.
Writer and comedian Zach Mander took quotes from Karl Marx and paired them with illustrations from books by Richard Scarry like What Do People Do All Day? and Cars and Trucks and Things That Go. See also Mamdani’s Richard Scarry socialism . Tags: books · illustration
Attalah was accused of publishing false news and operating without a license amid Egyptian authorities’ extensive crackdown on independent press.
Riding the Rails With America’s Last Train-Hoppers . “There are still people today who risk injury and arrest to climb aboard freight trains, still moving through the country in cars designed to carry things rather than people.”
The corkscrew car jump from the Bond film The Man With The Golden Gun was extensively modelled on a computer in 1974 . “McHenry took all the measurements and simulated the stunt using the equations of the 18th-century mathematician Leonhard Euler.”
Ten years in the making, "The Cloud House" is a whimsical response to its eclectic neighboring architecture. 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 Peter
“Today’s rich people are richer than ever, and that seems to have made them worse than ever . More shameless. More out of touch. Less empathetic. Thinner-skinned. And…angrier. They’re people who consider equality for others oppression for themselves.”
“S’élevant (Rising)” (1962) was snatched from Gallery Ludorff's booth on November 8.
As part of the 30 Day Map Challenge , Maxwell Howe created a map of New England places that many out-of-towners mispronounce ( Instagram ). As you would expect when you start talking about local pronunciations and accents, he’s getting some blowback: You’re mixing accent with
“When we have learned how to listen to trees,” Hermann Hesse wrote in one of his least known, most beautiful essays, “then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer
“Insincere ironic detachment is abundant,” the Bay Area artist told Hyperallergic. “What is niche now are sincere depictions of the present.”
Available for only two weeks, this curated selection of 14 Indigenous films features stories of resilience, inspiration, and hope.
Launching today: a collection of hundreds of stores that are worth detouring past Amazon to get to. The stores were nominated by you, the readers of this blog, and are only lightly curated. There’s no business model for the site, just a collective sharing. Click and explore.
The Dutch masterpiece is teeming with microbes, and scientists hope this invisible life will be a key to unlocking some of the painting’s mysteries.
Starting today at 7pm in NYC, 400 volunteers will read Robert Caro’s The Power Broker in 10-minute increments for 4 days . They’re gonna livestream it on YouTube .
A big stage for itty bitty subject matter. 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 Get Up-Close to Cells, Ink, and Insects in the Nikon Small World
"Often the places we grow up in... influence how we perceive and conceptualize the world, give us metaphors to live by, and shape the purpose that drives us."
Nope, this is not at all metaphorical : “In its glory days, the S.S. United States was fast, luxurious and all but indestructible.” RIP, the United States.
"I traveled to Big Bear Lake, home of a viral live feed of an eagle’s nest, and found very human shenanigans."
NPR recently welcomed Swedish pop star Robyn to their office for a Tiny Desk Concert . She sings four songs, including one of her first hits, Show Me Love. Every choice here is a tender one, down to the teardrop glued to her cheek. Every move is confident, yet comes from a
"Matthew Ritchie considers grief, growing old, and A Tribe Called Quest’s final album We got it from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service on its ten-year anniversary."
A strange man on camelback – the artist Nora Abbott retells her grandfather’s story of a prospector’s last ride - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Here’s a new answer to the old question ‘why is there something rather than nothing?’ (It’s neither simple nor easy) - by Andrew T Brenner Read on Aeon
Plus, two Asian-American powerhouses on the afterlives of Asian-American violence, the worldbuilder that was Betsy James Wyeth, and Paddy Johnson tells you whether you need an MFA
If you’re doing something creative, something important or something new, you’re certain to be rejected along the way. It’s a signal. It might be proof that you offered it to the wrong person, or that the right person saw something about your work that didn’t serve their needs.
Image by Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, via Twitter The prolific Hans Zimmer scored Christopher Nolan’s films over the dozen years from Batman Begins through Dunkirk. From 2020’s Tenet onward, Nolan has employed the younger Swedish composer Ludwig Göransson. Just what difference this has
The close associations between Surrealism and Freudian psychoanalysis were liberally encouraged by the most famous proponent of the movement, Salvador Dalí, who considered himself a devoted follower of Freud. We don’t have to wonder what the founder of psychoanalysis would have
A recent documentary called Capturing Bigfoot offers proof that the famous clip of Bigfoot was a hoax in the form of “a lost 16mm film shot in 1966, the year before the famous Bigfoot footage, and what it shows is a kind of rehearsal for it.”