Playwright Georgica Pettus has written a play called Truck , which is based on the excellent documentary Hands on a Hardbody . “I thought, ‘This is the best premise for a play, because all the attention goes to the dialogue.’”
What is queer typography? “I think that covers a lot of what queerness means: an attitude in the face of conformity, an attitude in the sea of passivity, an attitude to say yes when others say no.”
The discovery points to the future potential of archaeogenetics in recovering the identities of ancient artists from thousands of years ago.
Amid all of the kitty-kat meow of today’s Vogue Fem performers, Andre Mizrahi Clark has the stern, calm energy of a lion tipping on its toes.
Everybody eats. And, now and then, it’s fun to find something better. In the scheme of things, fancy foods are a bargain, a chance to have the best in the world for a few dollars. Here are some persistent (and new) favorites. For those outside the US, I hope you can find even
A show of his works from 1964–1978 focuses on the artist’s transformation and on his wife, poet Musa McKim, as a principal supporter and source of inspiration.
Hyperallergic spoke with the scholar about transness, architecture, and how we can make a better world by first unmaking it.
With an emphasis on job security after abrupt layoffs last year, negotiations for the second contract have been ongoing since December.
Street photographers hit the NYC streets; plus, an inside look at the Pace Gallery downsizing.
Scientists can pinpoint exoplanets and measure their mass by monitoring tiny changes in starlight over time in a process called microlensing. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as
"The clip is something like the primary episteme of the World Cup, for the simple reason that there is too much soccer."
“Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the Supreme Court’s opinion reversing Roe v. Wade, is retiring, the court announced Tuesday.” That means another Trump-appointed justice on the Supreme Court. That’s it, I’m out for the day.
Gah, this is another thing I’m completely fucking pissed about today: Supreme Court upholds bans on transgender athletes participating in women and girls’ sports .
Great piece by Andrea Pitzer on how lost Ezra Klein is in this current moment , newly relevant because he interviewed fascist activist Christopher Rufo on his NYT podcast (JFC!) “If you don’t know what your core beliefs are, you’re going to get played.”
I found this AI Compass quiz genuinely useful for pinpointing how I actually feel about various aspects of AI. At the same time, I don’t think my result (“The Kontextmaschine”) quite fits…
Visualize your local weather with art history. 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 Mark Rothko’s Color Fields Mirror the Elements in a
There’s a Grocery Price Emergency in America. “Our research shows that even relatively well-off families are struggling with high prices… President Trump and Congress are neither investing in long-term solutions nor offering short-term relief.”
"If a depiction only distinguishes one thing from another, what else is lost?"
Three shows unravel the politics of cartography. Also, why does a new Messi statue look like … that?
The costs of transformative innovations are immediately clear: it’s the longterm gains that are hardest to understand - by Carlo Cordasco Read on Aeon
I hear that there are people in the world who prefer lighthearted stories. Lovely meet-cutes where no one gets hurt and people even fall in love, where there is serendipity like there used to be before the internet, where good things happen to good people. Cozy mysteries that
A simple 7-question test helps us realize how diverse a population is. On this quiz, the highest possible score is less than 7%. No matter how common you think your answers are, no matter how normal you feel, you’re actually in sync with just 7% (at the most) of all citizens of
Most of our conception of Stoicism, an ancient school of thought much featured here on Open Culture, derives from the writings of just three figures: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, and Seneca the Younger. But there were other Stoics, and despite their antiquity, we may yet learn
Image by Bernd Schwabe, via Wikimedia Commons When Eichmann in Jerusalem—Hannah Arendt’s book about Nazi officer Adolf Eichmann’s trial—came out in 1963, it contributed one of the most famous of post-war ideas to the discourse, the “banality of evil.” And the concept at first