It’s a good bet that your first box of crayons or watercolors was a simple affair of six or so colors… just like the palette belonging to Amenemopet, vizier to Pharaoh Amenhotep III (c.1391 — c.1354 BC), a pleasure-loving patron of the arts whose rule coincided with a period of
"Johnny Knoxville and his band of merry pranksters got me through one of the worst weeks of my life."
From The Public Domain Review, The Many Lives of the Medieval Wound Man , a diagram found in many medical texts beginning in the early 1400s. Living on today in libraries from Copenhagen to Munich, the strange figure of the Wound Man gives modern viewers a glimpse of the
The artist found inspiration in the geography, vegetation, and wildlife of her home countries of Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela.
The Dutch artist reflects on both the momentous and mundane, particularly loss, grief, and the therapeutic powers of 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 institution’s former artistic director succeeds Lisa Phillips, who announced her retirement last fall.
If Only There Had Been a Sign That the Face-Melting Nazi from Indiana Jones Wouldn’t Make a Good Senator . “Marion Ravenwood said he trapped her in a room and physically assaulted her. But I decided to keep supporting Toht anyway.”
The real story of the Declaration of Independence, the rise and fall of monuments, contemporary Indigenous artists, drag queens on Fire Island, and other titles for the year’s reading list.
Interviews with some of the dwindling number of survivors of World War II Japanese American incarceration camps , including George Takei.
In iconic works like his "Dial-a-Poem," the artist offered a moment of sustained attention, a sense of relation, a novel perspective.
Art historian Susan Owens's exquisitely illustrated new book narrates the painter’s story through his relationship to weather, place, and time.
Local advocates warn that Republican Governor Greg Abbott’s order is part of a broader attempt to erase Black and LGBTQ+ history.
Marcos Paulo has been making all sorts of phone-sized wallpapers for the World Cup and posting them to Threads . You have to poke around to find them in his account, but here are a few direct links: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 . Tags: design · fashion · iPhone
The pink-and-blue shirts feature one of the painter's lesser-known motifs, along with the phrase “This is not a jersey" in an homage to the artist.
How to talk about “AI” without adding to the anthropomorphization . Suggestions: “artificial intelligence → probabilistic automation” & “AI agent → probabilistic, unverified software manipulator”. Seems like the horse is out of the barn on this though…
A visit to Akira Ikezoe’s studio, and contemporary artists’ takes on Lady Liberty.
Mister Rogers visits Eric Carle’s studio and paints with him (full episode). Carle wrote and illustrated The Very Hungry Caterpillar and other children’s books.
"In most of the country, executions are a thing of the past. But one state has been carrying them out at a record pace."
The London-based artist's monochrome compositions evoke wonder, mischief, and riddles. 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 Enigmatic Iconography and
Over the past few centuries, humans have decimated bird populations — you can hear it in the thinning of the dawn chorus — but it’s difficult to notice sometimes because of shifting baseline syndrome .
Martin Timko (aka matogolf ) cut this video of the best musical moments from Hans Zimmer & Friends: Diamond in the Desert . He plays a number of pieces from various soundtracks, including Dunkirk, Gladiator, Interstellar, Dune, and The Dark Knight. Great to hear live
"You can almost build up a whole character for someone based on what’s inside their pocket or what socks they are wearing to 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
Where the hard edge of physics meets the vulnerable metaphysics of the human heart.
“They do not sweat and whine about their condition,” Walt Whitman wrote of the other animals, “they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning
Sloan on Fable : “This is literally the core muscle of any/every language model: ‘I need to quickly and accurately understand what kind of document I am inside.’ Yet the sensitivity of that orienteering, the subtlety of it, has gotten so much better.”
"After my husband’s death, I had never been more pliable, tender, open, or raw. It was then that I tried E.M.D.R. therapy."
New Patricia Lockwood for the London Review of Books: A Tradcath Wedding . “He pronounced the word ‘nuptial’ as noopt-see-all . If that’s correct, never tell me.”
"I am yearning to reject something that is not even being sold to me."
The White House accuses the public institution of “extreme activism”; plus, an interview with queer icon Carmelita Tropicana.
Ming Dynasty China left us copious texts, but these veil the lives of the vast majority of its people from our view - by Craig Clunas Read on Aeon
In southeastern Italy, almond groves hold centuries of local history. A granddaughter returns to gather the bitter and the sweet.
A hundred and fifteen years ago, Christian Larson wrote one of the first popular self-help manifestos. The Optimist’s Creed argued that it was a choice, and a useful promise. Not to promise the world, or the boss, or the market. To promise ourselves. Optimism is not a mood.
Asked to identify “the Athens of the South,” many Americans might well point to Athens, Georgia, especially if they happen to be fans of REM, the B‑52s, or Of Montreal. In fact, that title was claimed by Nashville, Tennessee as early as the eighteen-fifties, when the city put