Arghavan Khosravi grapples with the structures and ideological strictures that shape our lives. 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 Arghavan Khosravi
25 Books That Capture This American Moment . They include Caste by Isabel Wilkerson, Toni Morrison’s A Mercy , Make the Impossible Possible by Bill Strickland, and Rabbit Redux by John Updike.
Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains . “[Some] developers who use AI at work report that they feel like they are de-skilling themselves and losing their ability to do their jobs as well as they used to.”
On finding a reprieve from the monotonous rhythm and the art that made me forget I was at a trade show.
“The Barbies belong to my six-year-old granddaughter, who sometimes joins me in the studio to paint.”
On “rich guy has an opinion” journalism , i.e. “entire news stories dedicated to the otherwise unremarkable opinion of a rich person, or news stories that fold the opinions of rich people into their otherwise neutral coverage”.
Graduate student work representing 19 advanced degree programs will be on view online and in person at the Rhode Island Convention Center starting May 21.
This World History Timeline (2016) shows how nations, empires, and ruling groups shifted and evolved across the globe from 3000 BCE to the present. It takes a second to understand what you’re looking at — I thought it was a sort of stretched geographical map at first. Get your
Duke University's art museum exhibits dozens of works from Nick Cave, Ai Weiwei, Nina Chanel Abney, Wangechi Mutu, and many others. 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
New York’s Neue Galerie Will Merge With the Metropolitan Museum . “The merger will significantly bolster the Met’s holdings of early 20th-century Austrian and German art…”
This exhibition at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art marks the first major solo exhibition of the artist’s hypnagogic artworks.
The Neanderthal dentist: archaeologists found evidence of a decayed tooth being drilled out with a stone tools 59,000 years ago . “It’s now the oldest known evidence of dentistry — or any direct medical treatment.”
Sarah Rose (who is blind): “Meta glasses are absolute game changers for the blind community… they are completely revolutionary .” And: “It really is incredible to talk to your glasses and ask them what they see and have them tell you.”
Typically gravitating toward dreamy palettes of soft blues, grays, and oranges, Andrew McIntosh opts for a sanguine red. 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
"I hated the mindless reassurance and generic empathy."
"Bill Gates was the monopolistic father figure who Silicon Valley’s young founders rebelled against—and, in so rebelling, became."
The artist and Civil Rights activist dies at 84, The Met and Neue Galerie merge, and NADA is back with “abstracted horniness.”
Featuring stories about celebrity look-alikes, siblings, desert living, philanthrocapitalism, and life inside a legal brothel.
A generation of young people with ‘full hearts in an empty world’ sought hope in the face of insurmountable malaise - by Emily Herring Read on Aeon
Professionals take their work seriously. Hobbyists can take it personally. We arrive and make a promise. We do it on behalf of the client, and that promise has little to do with what we might want to do–it’s what they need us to do. And so we make our promises carefully, and
It makes sense that Superman would take a tolerant view of immigrants and other minorities, given that he himself arrived on Earth as a refugee from the planet Krypton. The Man of Steel may strike you as an unlikely mouthpiece for progressive ideals, but 1950 found him on a
“Human rhythm is what gives the material its character," says the artist. 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 Mirei Monticelli’s Hand-Woven Banana Leaf
“Human rhythm is what gives the material its character," says the artist. 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 Mirei Monticelli’s Hand-Woven Banana
Cosmetics billionaire Ronald Lauder's private museum has a vast collection of Austrian and German art.
Along the way of life, I have discovered three things you can almost always do in your darkest hour that almost never fail to recover the light: Learn something. Help someone. Feel it all. We need our sciences to learn how the universe works, to know what we don’t yet know and
This week: artists’ antidote to AI slop, Kimberlé Crenshaw’s new memoir, New Orleans and climate change, an Art Deco train, and what do sex workers think about “Euphoria”?
One of the biggest assholes in the Trump regime is Russell Vought — and that’s really saying something; it’s a fierce competition. He’s the guy who said in 2023 that he wanted to put federal workers “in trauma”. ProPublica produced a video in Oct 2025 about how Vought is acting
The beloved artist was best known for monumental canvases and inventive, gestural “lampblack” works.
His installations of layered photos drawn from an expansive Black heritage entice viewers to keep looking, find connections, and ask questions.
