Jamelle Bouie : The details of what is happening here are important — that’s why I laid them out — but it’s also important to step back and make a more fundamental point: the president of the United States is engaged in a conspiracy against the voting rights of the American
Carmen Lomas Garza’s tender scenes of Chicanx community, Huguette Caland’s life in lines, Indigenous artists on fire and stewardship, photography of trans mutual aid, and more.
Gina Trapani: The joy of making stuff with a 3D printer . I’ve always been a little 3D printer-curious and this looks like a good resource to start with.
The Morgan Library & Museum presents “Hujar:Contact,” currently on view through October 25.
Ashley Percival imagines fanciful menagerie in which poodles, rotund birds, and boot-wearing insects try on a vast array of vibrant costumes. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as
"The intention of deep listening and loving speech is to restore communication, because once communication is restored, everything is possible."
"We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come... We live everything as it comes, without warning."
2 Odysseus 2 Ithaca: Emily Wilson is completely retranslating The Odyssey . “It’s a complete retranslation. It’s not a revision of the old version.” This is the exact opposite of resting on one’s laurels.
As part of “Mule’s Passage,” artists Z Behl and Kim Moloney are paddling six hours a day and camping for five weeks.
The piece, which read “8647” in yellow corn kernels, was taken down at the artist’s request after she was threatened and doxxed by right-wing agitators.
Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court Orders on Voting by Mail . “The Postal Service has designed a system to disenfranchise millions of Americans.”
The thing about me is if I see a making-of video for pencils , I’m gonna stop and watch it and then post it to my website, especially if said pencils are Blackwings, made in Japan. Take a first-ever, in-depth look at the Blackwing pencil manufacturing process. This short film
"AI companion toys for neurodivergent children promise connection and therapy, but can they deliver for the long haul?"
Michelle Millette’s Sherwood Forest Zine Library in Austin is part of a growing culture and community surrounding the self-published, easy-to-distribute booklets.
Industry Standard Tools . “Every trade has a small number of items so entrenched that they’ve become the de facto tool that nearly everyone in that trade uses.”
The five-volume tome features more than 625 illustrations from The Huntington's vast collection. 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 Twelve Centuries
Residencies, fellowships, grants, and open calls from the Gulf Coast Journal, the Harry Ransom Center, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Vermont Studio Center, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers.
This is a fun read: If You Build It, Will They Come? On the Sperm Racing World Cup . “The cells then race through courses less than a half-centimeter long that are etched into microfluidic silicon chips.”
The best shows to see this season, The Met’s John Galliano exhibition is nixed, and why your City Bike might run slower in certain neighborhoods.
Gullah Geechee basket-weaving is rooted in an oral tradition carried by enslaved people from Liberia’s Windward Coast.
Nationally, unsubsidized ACA premiums to jump *another* ~15% next year . We can’t continue like this (but I feel like this has been the case for the last ~10 years and will in fact likely continue…)
For Hieu Thien Nguyen, who works as kelogsloops, death is a constant reminder, but not something to fear. 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
Here’s how noise-cancelling headphones work (and when they don’t). “This is why ANC is better suited for reducing low, sustained sounds like those of motors and airplane engines, and it’s why such headphones can’t filter out screaming kids.”
The British designer was convicted of antisemitic and anti-Asian hate speech. Also: What was Peter Thiel doing at a VIP preview at the British Museum, and should we be scared?
We are most human when we play freely, imaginatively, pointlessly. Gamification risks atrophying that most precious capacity - by Justin Neuman Read on Aeon
A solo climber considers the outermost reaches of risk, and the unlikely ways in which they redefine us.
Apophenia is the uniquely human tendency to perceive meaningful patterns or connections in random or unrelated data, events, or objects. Humans are story telling machines. And one thing we do is turn co-incident events into more than coincidences. When we see faces and shapes
If you have an iPhone, try pushing its side button three times in a row. Just like magic, the screen should turn from color into black-and-white, or rather grayscale. (To do the same on an Android phone, you’ll have to dive into settings, then “accessibility,” “vision
“None of us has really the ability to understand our path until it’s over,” the celebrated graphic designer Milton Glaser mused less than a minute into the above video. The late Milton Glaser’s many contributions to pop culture—the I ❤ NY logo, the psychedelic portrait of a
“We cannot deeply love anything without becoming vulnerable to loss,” Judith Viorst wrote in her defense of life’s necessary losses, “and we cannot become separate people, responsible people, connected people, reflective people without some losing and leaving and letting go.”