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Good sentence : “The market’s most lavish...
Good sentence : “The market’s most lavish rewards do not go to its most productive participants, but rather, to those participants who have the good fortune to emerge from the luckiest of orifices.”
Art Dispatches From “Habibi City”
Alan Michelson’s oyster-shaped public artwork on Governors Island, a fragment of The Odyssey at The Met, and Simone Forti talking about her days in Yoko Ono’s Manhattan loft.
10 Photo Books to Read This Month
Hal Fischer’s archive of queer fashion, Sophie Rivera’s portraits of Nuyorican communities, Rania Matar’s love letter to Lebanon, and more new titles to check out from photo book publishers.
J.R.R. Tolkien on Fairy Tales, Language, the Psychology of Fantasy, and Why There’s No Such Thing as Writing “For Children”
"Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else (make something new), may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds."
San Diego Museum of Art Lays Off 11 Workers
The cuts impacted employees in departments including programs, development, exhibitions, and operations as the institution cited financial difficulties.
Russia Has Damaged or Destroyed Over 4,500 Cultural Sites in Ukraine
The National Art Museum of Ukraine and the Odesa National Fine Arts Museum are among the 141 museums and galleries affected.
Stuffed Animals and Found Objects Reconfigure in Sungho Bae’s Uncanny Sculptures
Sungho Bae's uncanny sculptures aremade of a vibrant, fleshy patchwork that resembles organs, tissue, muscle, and more. 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
Maori Karmael Holmes Looks Back on 15 Years of BlackStar
The Philadelphia film festival’s founder reflects on its evolution into a hub for experimental, polyphonic storytelling amid a rapidly changing country and world.
The Story Behind Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” and the Poet’s Own Stirring Reading of His Masterpiece
"Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
Discover Millions of Artworks from Thousands of Museums with This Huge Art Search Engine
"We currently have around five million artworks indexed, and strive to eventually index all museum art in the world," the creators say. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7
“ Your brain is a gambling addict that bets on...
“ Your brain is a gambling addict that bets on reality . It doesn’t wait for information. It guesses what should happen and adjusts when surprised. Most bets win. But when they don’t, you run into walls.”
16 Hours in an Oakland Dive Bar
"Very few Oakland establishments open before noon. Club 2101 in Dimond is one of them. For patrons, it’s a second home."
I’ve felt this for years (blogs have global context):...
I’ve felt this for years (blogs have global context): “ The uni-context is a scenario in which the ways you should act become the same across all different contexts . There’s just one set of norms you should follow all times, irrespective of context.”
Meghann Stephenson’s Tender Paintings Contrast Women’s Agency with ‘Acceptable Behavior’
'Queen of the Neighborhood!' will include a suite of new paintings that correspond to the nine circles of Hell in Dante's 'Inferno.' 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
How the Beatles Made their Most Acclaimed Album, Revolver, Released 60 Years Ago This Month
Among Beatles connoisseurs, it’s fair game to claim anything from Rubber Soul to Abbey Road as one’s favorite album. But even within that span of the catalog, a hierarchy of acclaim exists, and that hierarchy has been rearranged over the decades. The ecstatic reception of Sgt.
“An Absolute Climate Catastrophe”
British climate scientist Kevin Anderson (from a 2024 video ): So there is lots that you will hear — lots of rhetoric, lots of good words, lots of optimism about the future. But given we’ve known about this subject and apparently been working on it for 30 years, the trend line
“ Since 1974, vaccination has averted 154 million...
“ Since 1974, vaccination has averted 154 million deaths , including 146 million among children younger than 5 years… For every death averted, 66 years of full health were gained on average, translating to 10.2 billion years of full health gained.”
Radhika Chitalia’s Late Father’s Passport Transforms into a Memory Capsule
"What started spontaneously became a way of exploring grief, memory, and the journeys that never happened," the artist says. 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.
Meta's Glasses for Betas
Plus, Betye Saar’s last word of advice, 2,000-year-old shipwreck found off the coast of Sicily, and how Trump’s unnecessary IndyCar race in DC might jeopardize art.
Speaking for the Dead
A New York Times veteran considers the art of the obituary and how words give shape to legacies.
A second sexual revolution
Until Shere Hite’s Report, even the most daring sexologists refused to listen to what women desired and hated in sex - by Rosa Campbell Read on Aeon
Attention up for auction
If you win an auction to get a click, you probably overpaid. Every other bidder stopped bidding, that’s why you won. Putting attention up for auction is a good business model—for the seller.
226 Ansel Adams Photographs of Great American National Parks Are Now Online
Like many American stories, the story of the National Parks begins with pillage, death, deep cultural misunderstanding, and venture capitalism. According to Ken Burns’ film series The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, we can date the idea back to 1851, with the “discovery”