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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
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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.
The Beginning Comes After the End by Rebecca Solnit
A new book by Rebecca Solnit came out yesterday; it’s called The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change ( Amazon ). The synopsis: Rebecca Solnit offers a thrilling account of the sheer breadth and scale of social, political, scientific, and cultural change
What a Weasel Knows That We Forget: Annie Dillard on How to Live
Suppose we answer the most important question of existence in the affirmative. There is then only one question remaining: How shall we live this life? Despite all the technologies of thought and feeling we have invented to divine an answer — philosophy and poetry, scripture and
TIL about babysitting co-ops . “The premise is...
TIL about babysitting co-ops . “The premise is simple: Families in the co-op provide each other with free childcare. A point system…ensures that everyone contributes their fair share. Every half an hour is worth one point…”
Johan Siggesson’s Striking Portraits of ‘Big Tuskers’ in Kenya
The bigger the tusks, the more vulnerable these gentle giants are to poachers who harvest and traffic the ivory for trade. 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
The KDO Rolodex Is Now a Wee Feed Reader?
Hello, good afternoon! As I mentioned a few weeks ago , I have a bunch of new stuff for KDO in the pipeline. I’ve been focused on backend infrastructure recently to make my life (hopefully) easier and have gotten that to a place of “useful enough to test out to find all the
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Acquires Original...
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Acquires Original Disney Adult . “There wouldn’t be a Disney as we know it without this guy, a grown man who has watched Tinker Bell And The Great Fairy Rescue more than 90 times.”
TIL about burping your house , aka lüften (in Germany),...
TIL about burping your house , aka lüften (in Germany), aka opening up the windows in your house daily to air it out, even in winter.
Rediscover a Rembrandt After More than Six Decades in Hiding
After being removed from the official list of Rembrandt works in 1960, a private collector purchased "Vision of Zachariah in the Temple," from which point on, it remained out of sight—until now. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and
Color Photos of Rome (c. 1890s)
The Library of Congress houses an online collection of 48 color photographs of Rome taken in the 1890s . The prints were created using the photochrom process : The prints look deceptively like color photographs. But when viewed with a magnifying glass the small dots that
Steve Jobs famously said that computers are a bicycle...
Steve Jobs famously said that computers are a bicycle for the mind. What does that make LLMs? An e-bike for the mind? A car for the mind? A jet plane for the mind?
The Pain in You and the God in You: Carl Jung on the Relationship Between Psychological Suffering and Creativity
When AI first began colonizing language — which is still our best instrument for bridging the abyss between us, a container for thought and feeling that shapes the contents — I asked chatGPT to compose a poem about a solar eclipse in the style of Walt Whitman. It returned a