I thought the official video of Berghain by Rosalía (feat. Björk & Yves Tumor) was great — “I don’t even know what this is — classical pop? surrealist orchestral?” — and this recent live performance from the Brit Awards takes the song to the next level. I loved it. (via kenzie
A women had sex with identical twins (within a 4-day period), got pregnant, and now it’s impossible to tell which is the father , even with DNA testing.
"The essential cultural discrimination is not between having and not having or haves and have-nots, but between the superfluous and the indispensable. Wisdom... is always poised upon the knowledge of minimums; it might be thought to be the art of minimums."
Tracker dashboard for the Artemis II mission using real-time data from JPL.
Lou adds thousands of the diminutive baubles in myriad colors, shapes, and sizes to sweeps of oil paint on canvas. 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 commander of NASA’s Artemis II mission to the Moon, Reid Wiseman, took this photo of the Earth as the spacecraft speeds away our planet. There are two auroras (top right and bottom left) and zodiacal light (bottom right) is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun. That is
Does what it says on the tin: acid techno mix in Japanese sake brewery .
Art UK connects viewers to public collections around the nation, including ephemeral street art. 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 Explore Art UK’s
"Hélène Campbell was supposed to be long dead by now. She emptied her bucket list, bank account—and, at 34, is left to wonder: 'What next?' And she's not alone."
"From the ancient Nordic forest fairies and the 15th-Century Mélusine legend to Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, faerie folklore is full of deception and seduction."
The French-American avant garde artist said painting and sculpture exhibitions made him sick. But the collection of 200 of his works may tell the story of art in the 20th century
Remembering Melvin Edwards, art shows to see in LA and New York, and lessons from Houston’s Project Row Houses.
Humanitarian journalism is a moral calling to document human suffering. But in practice, it’s an ethically murky undertaking - by Cathy Otten Read on Aeon
Notable stories on chasing manhood, naming Gaza’s dead, searching the stacks for a rare book, leaving music behind, and opting out.
TINA! This is what Margaret Thatcher said about her draconian free market policies. It’s an easy thing to tell ourselves about compliance to any dominant system. But it’s incomplete. The complete sentence is, “There is no alternative unless we’re prepared to endure short-term
Asked to name famous shipwrecks at a bar trivia night, a fair few participants might think immediately of Pearl Harbor, whether or not they can recall that it was the USS Arizona bombed there. More firmly within living memory sits the SS Andrea Doria, though she’s hardly the
“If Artemis II is successful, the astronauts will be the first humans to reach the moon’s orbit in more than 50 years , and their path around its far side will take them farther into the universe than any human being has previously traveled.”
"Sometimes I'm sad and I don’t know why. It's just a cloud that comes along and covers me up."
Margaret Curtis’s deconstruction of American myth, quotidian objects by Marsden Hartley, and Wendy Red Star’s bead-inspired installation are among our picks.
“ The fractures in these images reflect how disconnected a lot of Jewish people feel from each other right now,” Emily Drew Miller told Hyperallergic.
David Alekhuogie’s defiant collage, Hannah Tishkoff’s visual poetry, an iconic Angeleno printmaking studio, portraits of Palestinian journalists, and more.
Also, the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts director retires, the Speed Museum's newest residents, and "peep" this art!
"This year, I set out to better understand what was driving this shift — what was causing so many young people to feel fed up with their phones."
This week: Calida Rawles paints Blackness and water, the artists who shaped Fire Island, translating literature during the Tehran blackout, why weather apps suck, and more.
