The frontier Anthropic & OpenAI models are only ~4 months ahead of open models — at 5x the price . “Most organizations should ideally be using open models as the default for the majority of their work, according to [a report] from Mozilla…”
Serenity now! 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 Please No Photos! A Short Film Focuses on Tourists’ Obsession with Capturing the Moment appeared
An interview with Alfredo Jaar, a new craft supply lending program at the Brooklyn Public Library, and workers at the Whitney Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, and the American Folk Art Museum vote in favor of a strike.
Last year in Ireland, a bouncy castle infested with a “hypervirulent, multidrug-resistant pathogen” infected almost 50 children . Reality: always weirder than the weirdest sci-fi.
Mexican architect Frida Escobedo joined museum leadership and elected officials to celebrate “la primera piedra,” or “the first stone,” of the forthcoming Tang Wing.
Carlotta Corpron photographs light, Ahn Chang-Hong unmasks Korean history, Black women reimagine Shakespeare, three mid-century New York artists paint by the sea, and more.
“Staff should be able to afford to live in the city they work in,” said one of the workers organized with UAW Local 2110.
In her first museum survey, the Bay Area artist's vibrant, musical, and poetic world is on display, reflecting her own memory with collective histories in America.
Naomi Klein : “Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist.” Klein’s new book, End Times Fascism , written with Astra Taylor, is out today.
How people, capital, cargo, and ideas traverse the globe has long been central to Hew Locke's work. 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 The Legacy of
Father Country I Do Love You sounds like a doozy of a new exhibition from photographer Taryn Simon. The project focuses on the life and work of an unnamed, retired FBI agent. From the NY Times: She Spent Years on a Giant Project About One Man. The Result Is Monumental. As it
The Tube Computer was recently constructed from hundreds of 1950s vacuum tubes sourced from Eastern Europe. “The Tube Computer has a pleasant homely aroma from the hundreds of double triodes, all quietly burning off their dust.” It heats the room too.
We took the viral Elizabeth Holmes-Nathan Fielder meme and gave it the ol' Hyperallergic spin.
For the 93rd year in a row or something like that I didn’t check the math, Tycho has released his sunrise set from Burning Man . I am not a Burning Man person but I always enjoy this set. See also a playlist of every 2026 Burning Man set on Soundcloud , currently 147 tracks
A tribute for the late queer artist, 15 years of BlackStar Film Festival in Philly, and what two American doctors learned in Gaza.
Inside Webster's interdisciplinary practice that advocates for nature. 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 How Monumental Environmental Works by Meg
A show on art from Cuba, Guam, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and their diasporas touches on themes of colonization, enslavement, migration, and more.
Alex Gibney’s documentary reveals that Elon Musk has always been a racist, sexist fraud . “Musk’s ex-wife Justine, whom he married in 2000 and divorced in 2008, says the man the world began to see in 2020 was the one she’d always known.”
In 1964, Pantheon Books invited J.R.R. Tolkien (January 3, 1892–September 2, 1973) to write an introduction to George MacDonald’s The Golden Key, which he had praised in Tree and Leaf — the small, splendid essay collection that gave us his uncommonly insightful meditation on
Seattle’s glass festival returns with milestone anniversaries, fresh art, parties, demos, exhibits, and open studios with the vibrant theme Year of Celebration.
Begin your PhD journey in summer 2027 with residencies in Rome, Spannocchia Castle, Arezzo, and Siena.
We no longer live in a time when college freshmen get shocked by much of the reading material assigned to them. Counterintuitively, the texts that do retain their power to disturb young minds (presuming they can read texts in the first place) tend to skew old — and in one
With a new installment every seven years since 1964, the Seven Up series has followed a group of 14 British schoolchildren from adolescence to adulthood. The final installment, 70 Up, directed by Asif Kapadia (Senna, Amy), is out this week .
Over the past six months (leisurely) and in the past three weeks (intensely), I’ve cleaned out and packed up my entire house where I’ve been living for the past 10 years. I went through every bit and bob of what I owned and either: gave it away (fiddle leaf fig, grill,
A declaration signed by 25 Fields medalists : “The goals of the AI companies and the goals of the mathematical community are severely misaligned.”
We interview the Chilean artist as an iconic work returns to NYC, Trump’s attacks against abstract sculptures, James McNeill Whistler’s musical paintings, and more.
Soggy fries, ghost kitchens, and a $19 bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich: what we've actually gained on the path to convenience.
Homecomings, fantasies, food and ghosts – how the myth of eternal return keeps the Italian diaspora in a state of longing - by Ben Faccini Read on Aeon
Maps are easy to sell. If you know where you are and where you’d like to go, the map solves your problem. Maps are all around us: how-to, what-to, step-by-step. The compass is more resilient but less descriptive. It shines a light, gives us clarity, but the next steps are up to
The business world has long had special jargon for the Kafkaesque incompetence bedeviling the ranks of upper management. There is “the Peter principle,” first described in a satirical book of the same name in 1968. More recently, we have the positive notion of “failing upward.”