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Art institutions reckon with disturbing revelations about the late labor leader, shopping for $500 artworks at the Affordable Art Fair, Zarina's post-minimalist paintings, and more.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week’s stories include techno, New Zealand, relationships, background music and doodles.
Bitch: a history
The word can morph from noun to verb to adjective, from dog to human, from female to male. What will it do next? - by Karen Stollznow Read on Aeon
Can you make it worse?
Is there something you can do right now that would impede progress, degrade quality or simply mess up the current situation? Is there a way you could shift perceptions to make people more distraught, less hopeful or even panicked? If it’s so easy to accomplish worse, why do we
How Quentin Tarantino’s One-Night “Detest Fest” Changed His Life & Set Him on the Path to Pulp Fiction
Just days ago, a game came out whose unlikely premise has already drawn a good deal of attention. “Manage your very own video store in the early 90s!” exclaims the description of Retro Rewind. “Rent, sell, decorate and expand your business from the ground up and relive the
Where Love Goes When It Goes
These passages appear on pages 126-127 of Traversal in the context of Mary Shelley’s life. Where does love go when it goes? It is a common question, contrived in its commonness yet savagely sincere, bellowing in the bosom of every brokenhearted lover, reverberating through the
An Introduction to the Strait of Hormuz and Its Role in the Longstanding US-Iran Conflict
Above, you can watch a primer on the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow passage between Iran and Oman through which roughly 20% of the world’s oil supply flows. Produced by Vox, the video explains why this chokepoint has long played a central role in tensions between the United
Breezy Swathes of Fabric Dance Amid Landscapes in Thomas Jackson’s Photos
"All of my photographs strain credulity by design," Jackson says. 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 Breezy Swathes of Fabric Dance Amid Landscapes in
What Can $500 Buy at the Affordable Art Fair?
And, more importantly, is the work on view worth the price?
300+ issues of the UK music magazine NME from 1969-1983...
300+ issues of the UK music magazine NME from 1969-1983 . The ads alone are incredible.
Zarina Brought the World to New York
Her visual idiom was fully embedded in South Asian histories, but she never fell into a too-close relationship with national identity.
Required Reading
This week: Ukrainian mosaics, artists and motherhood, Dolores Huerta speaks out, copaganda in the US, wall labels versus artworks, and is your diet a little bit fascist?
Art Movements: Senga Nengudi Wins Big
The artist is among the Rauschenberg Centennial Award winners, Banksy is (maybe) unmasked, and other industry news this week.
Art Movements: And the $100K Rauschenberg Award Goes to...
Winners of the Rauschenberg Centennial Award, Madeleine Grynsztejn leaves MCA Chicago, Banksy is (maybe) unmasked, and other industry news this week.
“ The Tenth Muse is an art discovery engine. Over...
“ The Tenth Muse is an art discovery engine. Over 120,000 artworks from museums and institutions — searchable by feeling, mood, atmosphere, era, and medium.”
California Schools Cover Cesar Chávez Statues After Abuse Accusations
Institutions are removing references to the Chicano labor leader, who was accused of sexually abusing girls in a new investigation.
California School Covers Cesar Chávez Statue After Abuse Accusation
Institutions are removing references to the Chicano labor leader, who was accused of sexually abusing girls in a new investigation.
Reweaving the Rainbow: Divinations for Living from the Science of Life
I met Willow at a loom on a farm one late-summer day. She was amused that I thought she looked like Mary Shelley, in whose world I’d been immersed for seven years while writing Traversal. Neither of us knew who the other was — Willow turned out to be the co-founder of the
Do the Next Right Thing: Carl Jung on How to Live and the Origin of His Famous Tenet for Navigating Uncertainty
"There is no pit you cannot climb out of provided you make the right effort at the right place... do the next thing with diligence and devotion."
Typos Have Plagued Us for Centuries . There’s the...
Typos Have Plagued Us for Centuries . There’s the 1631 Bible that says “thou shalt commit adultery” but James Joyce resisted some of his corrections: “These are not misprints but beauties of my style hitherto undreamt of.”
‘Their Power Feels Like Mine’: A Dog Sled Racer Says Goodbye to Her Pack
"After years of racing, I wanted to take my sled dogs back into the wilderness."
Paris now has a cycling network bigger than Amsterdam...
Paris now has a cycling network bigger than Amsterdam and “more daily trips in Paris are now made by bike than by car”.
The Human City
Photographer and drone pilot Pio Andrea Peri captured this overhead photo of a Sicilian city called Centuripe. Perched atop hilltops, the city looks like a person from above — even on Google Maps . (via daily overview ) Tags: drones · pareidolia · photography · Pio Andrea Peri
Marc Fornes’ New Sculptural Pavilion Reimagines the Architectural Folly
"L'Ile Folie" is a contemporary landmark perched above a pond in Cary, North Carolina. 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 Marc Fornes’ New Sculptural
Gender Play in Nineteenth-Century Theater . “The...
Gender Play in Nineteenth-Century Theater . “The most popular Shakespearean roles for women in the tragic repertoire were Romeo and Hamlet, but women also played Macbeth, Cardinal Wolsey, Shylock, Richard III, and Iago…”
A View From the Easel
“I wish I had a vegetable garden next to my studio and a pig walking around in my workspace.”
A study pitted adults vs little kids to see which was...
A study pitted adults vs little kids to see which was better at making paintings in the style of Jackson Pollock . “The researchers found that the kids’ paintings made in this manner resembled genuine Pollocks more than did those from adult painters.”
Restrained Emotions Simmer in Shinsuke Inoue’s Tender Wood Sculptures
Inoue’s striking characters' small scale belies their infinite inner emotional worlds. 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 Restrained Emotions Simmer
The Docteur Is In
"The Congolese rumba pioneer Docteur Nico helped define the sound of African decolonization—and became one of the great visionaries of the electric guitar."
CONDUCTOR Is New York’s First Art Fair Committed to the Global Majority
From April 30 to May 3, discover 27 galleries and 17 special projects spotlighting artists from across the world at Powerhouse Arts in Brooklyn.
Dawn Wilcox’s quest to chronicle the life & death...
Dawn Wilcox’s quest to chronicle the life & death of every woman in the US killed by a man . “Did women have no choice, Wilcox wondered, but to wander the world hoping never to step on a landmine of a man?”
Checking in with Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests,...
Checking in with Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests, kinetic machine sculptures that move under their own power along the beach. Some of the most recent versions are quick fast and can even tow humans along behind them.
What Forgiveness Takes
Shortly after I began the year with some blessings, a friend sent me Lucille Clifton’s spare, splendid poem “blessing the boats.” We had met at a poetry workshop and shared a resolution to write more poetry in the coming year, so we began taking turns each week choosing a line