Olafur Eliasson: A symphony of disappearing sounds for the Great Salt Lake
As the lake’s ecological crisis worsens, the artist’s new site-specific installation in Salt Lake City renders audible what is increasingly at risk of vanishing.
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From ProPublica, a database of financial disclosures...
From ProPublica, a database of financial disclosures from the Trump regime’s political appointees . “Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team.”
Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies on HyperCard
After posting the video on the history of HyperCard the other day, I went down a bit of a HyperCard rabbit hole on the Internet Archive. There are a ton of HyperCard programs, manual & packaging scans, and other resources available on IA ; among them: The Manhole , from the
The Met Introduces High-Definition 3D Scans of Dozens of Art Historical Objects
View van Gogh's brushstrokes closer than you're allowed to in a museum. 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 The Met Introduces High-Definition 3D Scans
Web game: list as many animals as you can in 1 minute...
Web game: list as many animals as you can in 1 minute (but you get more time with correct guesses).
Interdimensional Timelines: Hartford Art School Exhibits Liz Nielsen’s Photograms
As she concludes her term as the university’s Distinguished Chair in Photography, Nielsen’s “light paintings” are on view this spring in West Hartford, Connecticut.
The Four Rules for a Good Walk
In 2017, city planner Jeff Speck gave a talk on the four ways to make a city more walkable: In the typical American city, in which most people own cars and the temptation is to drive them all the time, if you’re going to get them to walk, then you have to offer a walk that’s
Legendary computer scientist Donald Knuth :...
Legendary computer scientist Donald Knuth : “Shock! Shock! I learned yesterday that an open problem I’d been working on for several weeks had just been solved by Claude Opus 4.6.”
“The entire Sun oscillates in a globally coherent...
“The entire Sun oscillates in a globally coherent way, and the oscillations are formed by sound waves trapped inside the Sun that make it resonate just like a musical instrument .”
Scale the Dramatic Verticality of Grundtvigs Kirke in David Altrath’s Dreamy Photos
A masterpiece of Expressionist brick architecture, Grundtvigs Kirke in Copenhagen is medieval-meets-modern. 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 Scale
After rain
A family swim, share meals and tell stories by a creek in Central Australia in a joyous celebration of much-needed rain - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
How to Heal Your Creative Hangover
Long-lost Rembrandt goes on view, 3D scans of The Met's treasures, spring shows outside NYC, and how to cure the emotional crash after artistic bursts.
On her own terms
Doris Lessing’s Golden Notebook remains shocking, necessary and imperfect – a dazzling experiment in living as a woman - by Catherine Taylor Read on Aeon
Imagination is work
We spend most of the time we’re in school extinguishing imagination. “Will this be on the test?” is a much more common question than “What if?” We’ve been trained to do tasks in a factory. Imagination is a skill and it takes effort. It’s not useful to say, “I’m not
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: From the Walls of Babylon to the Sewers of Rome
You may not be able to name all, or even most, of the seven wonders of the ancient world. But you almost certainly know that there were seven of them. In a way, that aligns well enough with the worldview of the Greeks who first made reference to such a list, given their
The Dark and Stormy Tale of a ShantyTok Band
When a scraggly band of folk musicians arrived to tour the UK, residents of a small Welsh town were enamored—until they learned that the band’s leader ruled with an iron fist.
Bertrand Russell’s Advice For How (Not) to Grow Old: “Make Your Interests Gradually Wider and More Impersonal”
Image by National Portrait Gallery, via Wikimedia Commons Advice on how to grow old frequently comes from such banal or bloodless sources that we can be forgiven for ignoring it. Public health officials who dispense wisdom may have good intentions; pharmaceutical companies who
Your Guide to Art Excursions Outside NYC This Spring
Your Guide to Art Excursions Outside NYC This Spring Dek1: The avant-garde environments of Piero Manzoni, the abstract visions of Agnes Martin, Rina Banerjee’s diaphanous monuments, and so much else to see.
15 Art Excursions Outside NYC This Spring
The avant-garde environments of Piero Manzoni, the abstract visions of Agnes Martin, Rina Banerjee’s diaphanous monuments, and so much else to see.
Explore The Met’s Collection in 3D From Your Couch
The museum offers scans of items including a painting by Claude Monet, Neolithic sculptures, and Greek terracotta vases
From late January, a 40-minute talk by Rick Steves on...
From late January, a 40-minute talk by Rick Steves on “how lessons learned on the road can help Americans better understand and meet the challenges facing Democracy in the USA.”
In Cardboard and Gold, Narsiso Martinez Highlights the Workers of American Agriculture
Narsiso Martinez continues working on cardboard produce boxes, celebrating the people responsible for feeding America. 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
Long-Lost Rembrandt Goes on Display at the Rijksmuseum
Previously misattributed to a pupil of the Dutch Master, the painting was hidden from public view in a private collection for over six decades.
Remembering Iris Cantor, Ulysses Jenkins, and Rena Bransten
This week, we honor an arts patron, a video artist, and a San Francisco gallerist.
Cordy Ryman’s Playful Remix of Minimalism
The son of legendary painters, Ryman has developed his own visual language, transforming aspects of his parents’ work, and Minimalism, into something recognizably his.
Suffering From “Creative Hangover”? You’re Not Alone
A new study finds that artists experience negative emotions the morning after their most productive days.
Timothy Snyder on strongmen . “Once you accept...
Timothy Snyder on strongmen . “Once you accept that Trump is strong, you are accepting that you are weaker than Trump. And once you accept the strongman form of politics, you no longer have recourse to laws, or norms, or even basic ideas of decency.”
De La Soul’s Tiny Desk Concert
Ok, you know this is going to be a good one: De La Soul plays a Tiny Desk Concert. The humor of De La Soul has always been one of its calling cards. When DJ Maseo tells the Tiny Desk crowd, “Ladies and gentlemen, we’re a new group called De La Soul,” he means it as a joke.