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From XKCD, some common sailing rigs , including the ketch, schooner, offset rig, and oops all spinnakers.
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A Short Documentary Celebrates the Community that Rallied Around ‘Rick on the Roof’
Evicted from his home in 2006, Rick Canty moved to the roof. 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 A Short Documentary Celebrates the Community that
Bread Infographic
London bakery The Dusty Knuckle cleverly used a loaf of bread as a graph to illustrate the costs of running their business: From their post: This comes off the back of a big decision to increase our bakers’ pay ahead of the new London Living Wage coming in April 2026. That
“This should be the year you stop trying so hard to turn...
“This should be the year you stop trying so hard to turn yourself into a better person, and focus instead on actually leading a more absorbing life .”
How Plate Tectonics Revolutionized Our Understanding of Earth
"And how scientist Tanya Atwater was at the center of it all."
Christina Sharpe's Appeal to South Africa
A call to reinstate Gabrielle Goliath's Venice Biennale pavilion, Ana Mendieta’s earthworks, and the California College of the Arts is no more.
The Backcountry Rescue Squad at America’s Busiest National Park
"In the Great Smoky Mountains, an auxiliary team of élite outdoorsmen answers the call when park-goers’ hikes, climbs, and rafting adventures go wrong."
Mad magazine autostereogram, cutecore
Pop culture is spiralling. I had no idea what “mad magazine autostereogram, cutecore” meant, but it was enough for Midjourney to create this: Older generations have always been left out of the codewords and trends of the makers of pop culture, but the gatekeepers and lack of
Discover Michelangelo’s First Painting, Created When He Was Only 12 or 13 Years Old
Think back, if you will, to the works of art you created at age twelve or thirteen. For many, perhaps most of us, our output at that stage of adolescence amounted to directionless doodles, chaotic comics, and a few unsteady-at-best school projects. But then, most of us didn’t
Download 435 High Resolution Images from John J. Audubon’s The Birds of America
In our experience, bird lovers fall into two general categories: Keenly observant cataloguers like John James Audubon … And those of us who cannot resist assigning anthropomorphic personalities and behaviors to the 435 stars of Audubon’s The Birds of America, a stunning
Divers
“ Divers documents the restless anticipation of walking to the platform’s edge and the fleeting serenity found in jumping.” Lovely. Just lovely. (via colossal ) Tags: diving · slow motion · sports · video
The South African Pavilion Is Betraying Its Own History
The same government that has held Israel accountable for its genocide in Gaza must revoke its culture minister’s decision to axe the Venice Biennale performance.
Vanderbilt University Buys California College of the Arts, Raising Questions
Curator Natasha Boas described the news as “another massive shock in a series of cultural shocks” for San Francisco’s arts community.
Black Artists Create New Universes in “Unbound”
The exhibition at the Museum of the African Diaspora moves between history and futurity without settling on a singular narrative of the universe, instead prompting reflection.
Claudette Colvin, Who Refused to Give Her Bus Seat to a White...
Claudette Colvin, Who Refused to Give Her Bus Seat to a White Woman, Dies at 86 . “History had me glued to the seat.” Her refusal predates Rosa Parks’ similar stand, but she was deemed “too dark-skinned and too poor” to be a civil rights symbol.
Olive Oil Sculptures
Suzanne Saroff makes unusual photographic sculptures, including these dynamic olive oil shapes . Tags: art · food · photography · Suzanne Saroff
How Not to Be a Victim of Time: Rebecca West on Music and Life
Time is the book we fill with the story of our lives. All great storytelling has the shape of music. All music is a shelter in time. In these lives hounded by restlessness, trembling with urgency, we need this shelter, need a place still enough and quiet enough to hear the
Reports of Artists Killed by Iranian Regime Draw Outrage and Grief
Sculptor Mehdi Salahshour and filmmaker Javad Ganji are among the members of Iran’s creative community reportedly killed during anti-government protests.
“We’re Too Close to the Debris”
"When SpaceX CEO Elon Musk chose a remote Texas outpost on the Gulf Coast to develop his company’s ambitious Starship, he put the 400-foot rocket on a collision course with the commercial airline industry."
I Was Kidnapped by Idiots. “Later, he tried the ‘good cop, bad...
I Was Kidnapped by Idiots . “Later, he tried the ‘good cop, bad cop’ routine on me but undermined the effect by playing both characters himself, on alternate days, which just made him seem deranged.”
Ana Mendieta’s Injured Earth
Although many of her earthworks have been erased by time, the late Cuban-American artist’s interventions attest to her continued presence, etched into the land.
Remembering Beatriz González, Arnulf Rainer, and Franco Vaccari
This week, we honor a painter of Colombian national memory, a founder of Art Informel, and an Italian conceptual photographer.
Absurd Scenarios Stretch Across Paco Pomet’s Nostalgically Peculiar Canvases
A sense of nostalgia is greeted by surreal scenarios. 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 Absurd Scenarios Stretch Across Paco Pomet’s Nostalgically
Jamelle Bouie: “The American public, then, is left not with a president...
Jamelle Bouie : “The American public, then, is left not with a president but with a man who imagines himself master and behaves like a tyrant. A man whose agents brutalize ordinary citizens and then defame them in the wake of their deaths…”
Grow as an Artist Without Pressing Pause: SVA’s Online MFA Art Practice
Interdisciplinary, online, and connected to New York’s art ecosystem. Applications are due on January 15.
Stop complaining about paywalls existing. “These paywalls are attempts to make this...
Stop complaining about paywalls existing . “These paywalls are attempts to make this dying field viable. When you get personally offended by paywalls, you’re essentially saying we should work for free.”