Shirley Tse and Dana Berman Duff's Breathing Moons
The artist duo — who go by "Relational" — explore the unseen forces that bind us to the universe.
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New Digital Archive Honors Gaza Journalists Killed by Israel
The project developed by the Writers Against the War on Gaza serves as a digital memorial for the around 240 Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza since October 2023.
How Love Comes to You
We spend our days making plans, making promises, making predictions about the possible, and yet the most bewildering thing about life is that its imagination is always greater than that of the living — life keeps surprising us, keeps reminding us that all too often the wildest
Constellating Wonder: Celebrating 20 Years of The Marginalian (October 23, 2026)
At the dawn of my twenties, lonely, destitute, and disoriented by the demands of making a new life in an alien world, I started keeping notes on my search for meaning while working four jobs to pay my way through college. On October 23, 2006, I began sharing my discoveries —
The Artist Mapping Knoxville’s Art Scene With Wood and Wire
Three years ago, Lauren Farkas sketched a plan to see exhibitions during the city’s monthly art walk. Now, she crafts eclectic maps for each event to make the art scene more accessible.
11-Year-Old Boy Sets Guinness Record for World’s Youngest Curator
Anderson Taylor opened the Cambridge Natural History Museum in rural Illinois at just nine years old
A New Book Celebrates More Than 250 Trailblazing Women Photographers Across 200 Years
“If ‘greatness’ has long been defined by visibility and remembrance, then the continued documentation and celebration of women’s photographic practice is not only relevant but essential.” Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and
A View From the Easel
“The literal environment outside of my studio is the mobile home park I used to play in as a child in the ’80s.”
Tressie McMillan Cottom on AOC’s presumed presidential...
Tressie McMillan Cottom on AOC’s presumed presidential run . “But these are different times. Ocasio-Cortez is a different woman, and Americans love to turn to women when the house is burning down.”
Discover the Ancient Roman Shorthand Writing System with 4,000 Symbols Commissioned by Cicero
You can still type a symbol originally invented for Cicero nearly 21 centuries ago — at least if you configure your keyboard properly. The character ⁊ appears in Unicode as U+204A, but is better known as the “Tironian et”: the “et” is Latin for “and,” and the “Tironian” comes
The Guggenheim Wants Its Picasso Back
The museum sues for ownership of a Picasso painting stolen in 1961, plus new affordable housing for artists in Philly.
The neverending house
The self-built homes of Santiago are precarious and ever changing. They are, always and at once, being and becoming - by Consuelo Araos Read on Aeon
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Recommending stories from Emi Nietfeld, Brendan Borrell, Boyce Upholt, Fernando Pinho, and Vann R. Newkirk II.
Arundhati Roy on the Deepest Measure of Success
"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance... To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple."
Emotional hygiene
After doing an autopsy at the morgue, it’s a good idea for doctors to wash their hands before delivering babies. A few hundred years ago, Ignaz Semmelweis proved this now-obvious insight about hygiene. Doctors don’t scrub because it’s fun or convenient, they do it because it’s