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.
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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
Exploratorium
Play with the physics of perception at Frank Oppenheimer’s Exploratorium in this captivating, Oscar-nominated short from 1974 - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Whitney Biennial Sneak Peek
Impressions from the leading survey of American art, Chicago's DePaul Art Museum shutters, arts leaders react to Mamdani's pick for culture commissioner, and more.
The Uncanny Valley
It used to be an obscure oddity, now we all need to understand it. 18 years ago, I posted this image: …and I still can’t get it out of my head. Sorry. Why do we have such a creeped-out reaction to images that aren’t quite right? A robot that looks too much like a person, […]
The First Robot Movie: Watch a Newly Discovered Georges Méliès Film from 1897
Metropolis, Forbidden Planet, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars, Blade Runner, The Terminator, Short Circuit, RoboCop, Ghost in the Shell, The Iron Giant, WALL‑E, Ex Machina: there is a parallel history of cinema to be told entirely through its robots. That such a history must
The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Rebecca Solnit
The author of The Beginning Comes After the End talks about jackrabbits, her own “informational hypervigilance,” and the one word she won’t stop using.
Download 60,000 Works of Art from the National Gallery, Including Masterpieces by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Rembrandt & More
As a young amateur painter and future art school dropout, I frequently found myself haunted by the faces of two artists, that famously odd couple from my favorite art history novelization—and Kirk Douglas role and Iggy Pop song—Lust for Life. Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin,
First Impressions From the 2026 Whitney Biennial
Here’s what we liked, what we didn’t like, and what we’re still working through.
Rendered in Handmade Pigments, Rupy C. Tut’s Warriors March Toward Belonging
For Rupy C. Tut, painting is an act of devotion. 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 Rendered in Handmade Pigments, Rupy C. Tut’s Warriors March Toward
Magdalena Abakanowicz Sculpted the Collective Body
Her organic sculptures convey a quiet power, the faceless anonymity of multitudes transformed into a collective oneness.
LLMs are getting pretty good at unmasking pseudonymous...
LLMs are getting pretty good at unmasking pseudonymous users — their success rate is “far greater” than humans alone can manage.
70 Shows to See in NYC This Spring
Our guide this season's blockbuster shows and hidden gems in New York City is out.
Can Diya Vij Make NYC More Affordable for Artists?
Arts leaders speak about the tough challenges the new culture commissioner will face in the job.
