Gabrielle Goliath Sounds a Call to Action in Venice
With “Elegy,” the South African artist proposes that grief is a necessary tool for building solidarity.
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Still in Sound
Sound artists compose sonic and multisensory interpretations of abstract paintings for this new exhibition at the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver, Colorado.
Perhaps businesses are collecting too much data for...
Perhaps businesses are collecting too much data for their own good . “Each morning at 10am, I get an email from Caroline in the finance team showing the cash we have in the bank compared with the same day last year. This fact offers no hiding place.”
Mike Monteiro on how to deal with your suddenly grown-up...
Mike Monteiro on how to deal with your suddenly grown-up kids . “When your kid leaves it is the happiest day of your life and also the saddest day of your life. And a lot of other feelings in between.” In the midst of this right now; it’s been a lot .
What’s Your Favorite Recipe?
I am not what you would call a dedicated home cook. But every once in a while, I get a bee in my bonnet and make something from my small cache of recipes or from something I saw online that looked good. Some of my go-tos include: Rigatoni With White Bolognese ( PDF )
ArtPhilly Presents “What Now: 2026”
The five-week city-wide festival will feature over 30 newly-commissioned works created by Philadelphia artists to spark important conversations about the future of the United States.
I have always liked Steve Kerr, but I did not expect to...
I have always liked Steve Kerr, but I did not expect to read this whole 15,000-word profile of him at ESPN . Really interesting throughout.
Glimpse the Fantastical Animated World of ‘Wildwood’
LAIKA Studios emphasizes both human-made elements and cutting-edge technology in the feature-length film, coming this October. 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.
Handy app: “Point your camera at anything (a dress,...
Handy app: “Point your camera at anything (a dress, a paint swatch, a flower, your kid’s drawing) and What Color Is This? names the color instantly.” I like the increasingly specific color labels (e.g. blue to light blue to Tiffany blue).
“In 2014, the Dutch scholar Hans Corneel de Roos...
“In 2014, the Dutch scholar Hans Corneel de Roos first noticed that the Icelandic version of Dracula was in fact not a translation , but was rather a very different novel from Stoker’s version.” The “translation” was published in 1901.
How death came to Earth
Why must humans die? According to an ancient Indian folktale, death first came to Earth through an ill-fated love affair - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Palate Cleansers at Frieze NY
What art are the wealthy buying these days? Also, remembering the performance artist who looked misogyny in the eye.
Mathematics is out there
Sergiu Klainerman spent years proving that black holes won’t fly apart; and arguing that maths is not a human invention - by Steve Nadis Read on Aeon
All right and none the same
On a beautiful Sunday in Central Park, you’ll see thousands of people out for a jog. Each person has exactly the right running style–and none of those styles are the same. Each is wearing what they think of as the right clothes, listening (or not) to the right sort of music,
Archaeologists Discover Ancient Egyptian Mummy Buried with Pages from Homer’s Iliad: When Literature Guided Souls Through the Afterlife
Renaissance Europe admired ancient Rome, ancient Rome admired ancient Greece, and ancient Greece admired ancient Egypt. But the admiration could actually go both ways in that last case, since the two civilizations’ periods of existence overlapped. The Greeks made no secret of
Read Joan Didion’s Lost Interview with the Grateful Dead (1967)
Without wanting to make too broad a generalization, it’s safe to say that Saturday Evening Post readers probably didn’t understand much about what was going on in San Francisco during the Summer of Love. Or they didn’t, at least, until the magazine ran “Slouching Towards
Nick Cave on the Two Pillars of a Meaningful Life
"Cultivating a questioning mind, of which conversation is the chief instrument, enriches our relationship with the world."