A Collection of Transit Tickets

A brand designer’s “compendium of transit tickets” from around the world. Many of these are from the 90s and 00s. Design inspiration for daaaaays. (via meanwhile ) Tags: design

Duchamp in New York

MoMA opens its latest blockbuster, Jasper Johns keeps looking, Aruna D’Souza responds to Josh Kline, and much more.

40 Years Later, Houston's FotoFest Keeps Its Edge

The photography festival’s anniversary retrospective embodies the spirit of freedom and internationalism present since its founding.

The Death of the Basic American Car . “Today,...

The Death of the Basic American Car . “Today, there are so many wealthy people who can afford luxury cars that it simply isn’t that profitable for companies to produce cars for the bottom 40 percent of Americans by income.”

Michaelina Wautier Finally Known by Her Name

For centuries, her masterpieces were misattributed to male painters. A new exhibition at London's Royal Academy corrects the record.

An AI bot created by Andon Labs is running its own...

An AI bot created by Andon Labs is running its own retail store in San Francisco . The bot has hired a pair of human employees and “has a corporate card, a phone number, email, internet access and eyes through security cameras”.

A Delightful Short Film Highlights the Remarkable Self-Taught Art of George Voronovsky

Ukrainian artist Jonko "George" Voronovsky (1903-1982) transformed his one-room residence into a vibrant environment of "memoryscapes." Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7

“Gerontocracy has always thrived in undemocratic...

“Gerontocracy has always thrived in undemocratic places — Communist people’s republics, Gulf monarchies — where only death could pry power from the ruling elders. American gerontocracy is exceptional for being freely elected .”

An interactive explainer on the physics of GPS ....

An interactive explainer on the physics of GPS . “The answer is in some ways simpler than you’d expect, and in other ways more complex. GPS is fundamentally a translation tool: it converts time into distance.”

Ai Weiwei on Censorship

A thought-provoking book by the dissident artist, Trump's latest offensive meme, and artist-activist Celeste Dupuy-Spencer dies at 46.

You’ve lived this life before

The mystical insight came to Nietzsche like a lightning flash: time eternally recurs – and life must be lived accordingly - by Mark Higgins Read on Aeon

Holding Pattern: A Reading List on Waiting . . .

Everyone waits. No one is spared the waiting room, one way or another. Seven stories on an essential human condition.

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Watch 35 Short Films by Charles and Ray Eames: “Powers of Ten,” the History of the Computer & More

?si=sPXB5teJO7wsm71F The Pacific Palisades fire of January 25 destroyed much of that coastal Los Angeles neighborhood, but it somehow spared the Charles and Ray Eames house. Anyone who’s paid it a visit, or at least pored over the many photos of it in existence, knows that it’s

Turfin’ Safari

"Growing grass for the 2026 World Cup has been a years-long science project. Here's how it’s going, from B.C. to Tennessee."

Media companies are increasingly blocking the Internet...

Media companies are increasingly blocking the Internet Archive from archiving their material (but at the same time using the site to gather data for their stories).

Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Artist Who Confronted Injustice, Dies at 46

She stood up for human rights in both her paintings and her advocacy, criticizing Israel’s violence against Palestinians and the rise of fascism in the US.

Flowers for Things I Don’t Know How to Say: A Tender Painted Lexicon of Consolation and Connection

“To be a Flower is profound Responsibility,” Emily Dickinson wrote. From the moment she pressed the first wildflower into her astonishing teenage herbarium until the moment Susan pinned a violet to her alabaster chest in the casket, she filled her poems with flowers and made of

The Absolute Hell of Watching a Movie at the Alamo Drafthouse in 2026

"Once America's most promising movie theater chain has become a QR-coded symbol of corporate enshittification."

The Christophers

I’m so glad Steven Soderbergh unretired from filmmaking. His newest film, The Christophers, looks amazing . It stars Ian McKellen as a famous artist and Michaela Coel as his assistant — but of course there’s more to it. Reviewer David Sims calls it both a heist movie and “a

Gagosian to Debut New Gallery With Duchamp’s “Readymades”

The exhibition will run concurrently with the artist's first United States retrospective in over 50 years at the Museum of Modern Art.

Trump Plays Christ and Gets the Wound Wrong

The president’s latest attempt to fashion himself as an American messiah is costing him some of his most loyal Catholic supporters.

We love a slime mold around here. “From mottled...

We love a slime mold around here. “From mottled gray bulbs that look like snow-covered trees to pink, coral-like tendrils, Webb chronicles a huge array of colors and shapes.”

Cinga Samson Conjures Mystery and the Sublime in Large-Scale Oil Paintings

The artist's solo exhibition, 'Ukuphuthelwa' at White Cube, continues through April 18. 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 Cinga Samson Conjures

This is incredible: Google Has a Secret Reference Desk....

This is incredible: Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here’s How to Use It. I knew some of these but not all, e.g. verbatim mode “returns results for exactly what you typed, stripped of personalization and synonym-swapping.”

The Crystal Skull

David Altmejd’s 2017 sculpture entitled “God” is one of the most disturbing artworks I’ve seen recently, so naturally I had to show all of you. If you need further wigging out, here you go . Lots more on his website and Instagram . Tags: art · David Altmejd

Chicana Painter Criselda Vasquez Says ICE Detained Her Father

Vasquez was inspired by her Mexican immigrant parents to paint her celebrated 2017 portrait “The New American Gothic.”

Christopher Hitchens on Mortality

"To the dumb question 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: Why not?"

Steve DiBenedetto’s Cosmic Sense of the Absurd

He conceives of a painting as a search for a functional structure, a talisman that can aid viewers amid our collective sense of traumatic crisis.

Great new Patrick Radden Keefe piece on a New Orleans...

Great new Patrick Radden Keefe piece on a New Orleans insurance fraud scheme involving big rig s. “After all, who would agree to be cut open on an operating table if it weren’t necessary? Quite a lot of people, it turns out.”