Anything you give your time to and polish with attention will become a lens on your search for meaning, will lavish you with metaphors that become backdoors into the locked room of your most urgent reckonings. In my nascent adventures in pottery, I have observed with great
A rare event to capture on video: an underwater volcanic eruption in the Solomon Islands .
From a few weeks ago: Bush’s Tiny Desk Concert . Machinehead and Glycerine still hit.
The most assuring thing about life is that we can change, that things can change, that they are always changing. The most maddening is that despite living in a universe that is one constant transmutation of energy and matter, despite living in bodies and minds whose cells and
“A new book is nostalgic for the ’90s. But the era of crossover success was not necessarily the pinnacle of Black comedic achievement.”
Your Backpack Got Worse On Purpose . “From a shareholder’s perspective, the bag that falls apart is the better product. That’s the business model. Repeat failure, repeat purchase, repeat revenue. The quality decline isn’t a side effect. It’s the strategy.”
Two Japanese aquariums have released their 2026 flowcharts of their penguins’ relationships . “Penguin drama can include serious crushes and heartbreaks but also adultery and egg-stealing.”
"Dozens died in a Texas flood, dividing families over whether it was an act of God or adult failure."
I love these oversized prints of vintage Pan-Am luggage tags from artist Ella Freire. The typography and colors are just perfect. (via daringfireball ) Tags: art · design · Ella Freire · travel
Artists Christian Rebecchi and Pablo Togni have a knack for bringing the immensity of nature to developed urban spaces. 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
Don’t Just Replace Chavez — Rethink Monuments . “A memorial based on the great-man theory of history is a tale only half told.” And: “There are elegant ways to pay tribute to groups of people.”
I’d vaguely remembered that Hulu was adapting The Testaments , Margaret Atwood’s follow-up to The Handmaid’s Tale , as a sequel to the TV series of the same name, but I was surprised to find out that the show has premiered and is already three episodes in (a fourth will be
"It gains its real power when embedded in webs of relationship and shared meaning-making."
Listen to the NYC Subway play some Train Jazz . “Every dot is a real subway train. Eight hundred of them, give or take, form a small jazz combo (walking bass, piano, sax, vibes, brushes) that has been playing without pause for over a hundred years.”
Perhaps you’ve had the experience of moving to a new city and immediately being told that you’ve missed its golden age of live music. To an extent, this has happened in more or less every period of the past fifty or sixty years. But what if the person regaling you with those
The Engineer Guy Bill Hammack has written a book based on his great YouTube channel: The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans .
Surrounded by her drawings and ceramics, we discussed her evolving art practice and new life as NYC first lady.
The Kyiv-based artist's dreamlike illustrations portray spaces and individuals that embody feeling. 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 Masha Foya’s
Women figurative realist painters can enter to win $75,000 and a traveling solo exhibition. Applications are open through September 19.
I reported last week that signs of activity have been detected from Boards of Canada in the form of mysterious VHS tapes sent out to fans. Yesterday, the group’s record label posted a bunch of photos of posters hung up in cities around the world (NYC, Tokyo, LA) that match
The signs protest the sponsors of this year’s event, Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchéz, and target Amazon's alleged worker exploitation and links to ICE.
An exhibition of works by Alighiero Boetti at Magazzino Italian Art.
Kathleen and Eldridge Cleaver’s family album depicts aspirational homemaking in diaspora, capturing the tension between rest and motion as they navigated exile with their children.
Anyone can now browse through over 2,000 works by the artist, including paintings, handwritten letters, and early sketches.
"You might think of puzzling as leisurely, but it’s now a sport. I entered a national competition and discovered a passionate community."
This week, we honor a self-taught topiary artist, a mainstay of ’60s Scandinavian art, and author of what may be the first underground comic.
The Guggenheim Fellowship names 223 winners, CUNY’s Social Practice program plans to shutter, and do we really need to go to the art fairs this spring?
The Stamped and How to Be an Antiracist author on the superpower he'd like to have, the outlets he likes to read, and his latest work, Chain of Ideas .
What does it mean for us to own something? If we own a piece of land and the rain washes the topsoil downstream, do we go and get the topsoil back? Do we own our reputation? We have influence over it, but some of it was gifted to us without our knowledge, and other parts […]
After his radical conversion to Christian anarchism, Leo Tolstoy adopted a deeply contrarian attitude. The vehemence of his attacks on the class and traditions that produced him were so vigorous that certain critics, now mostly obsolete, might call his struggle Oedipal. Tolstoy
"Life is wasted when we make it more terrifying, precisely because it is so easy to do so."