The Trial of Gisèle Pelicot’s Rapists United France and Fractured Her Family . “‘Look at the Pelicot family.’ They had been ‘confronted with the impossible dilemma,’ he said. ‘How to make suffering coexist.’”
"Killing the predators is not nearly as effective as the intimidating presence of well-trained guardians, a role some breeds have played for 5,000 years."
"To live, we must die every instant. We must perish again and again in the storms that make life possible."
In a video for the V&A Museum, stone carver Miriam Johnson hand-carves a pair of hieroglyphs “using both sunken relief and raised relief techniques”. The video has minimal narration; mostly it’s just a master craftsperson quietly tapping away at the stone — and getting bits of
An appreciation of Flickr’s URL structure . “It was a beautiful and predictable scheme. Once you knew how it worked, you could guess other URLs.”
The Detroit-based artist finds joy in color and pattern. 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 Aunia Kahn’s Lush Portraits Depict a Playful Inner
Toy Story 5 joins the fight against screentime for kids . “Toys are for play, but tech…is for everything.”
The feminist artist received an international award from Anderson Ranch. Plus, new top staff at university museums, and the V&A goes to the zoo.
She uses epiphytes — plants that grow on other plants without harming them — as a framework for the expansive ways diasporas form.
Join us on March 2 for a virtual conversation between artist and Hyperallergic contributor Damien Davis and Editor-in-Chief Hakim Bishara.
In-browser puzzle game : “Enclose the horse in the biggest possible pen!”
Like the infernal French nobleman, Jeffrey Epstein’s story represents cruel and oppressive politics that were seeded in aristocracy, tended in capitalism, and are now harvested in fascism.
Over 50 exhibitors, hands-on programming, and a juried print exhibition make up the fair’s expanded second edition. April 9–12, 2026.
This week: movie poster art, the typist behind Henry James’s novels, Gisèle Pelicot’s new memoir, indie rock in “Heated Rivalry,” and are we in an arts and crafts renaissance?
The billionaire retail tycoon continues to deny any knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein's sex crimes, but not everyone is buying it.
A data analysis of how women’s clothing doesn’t actually fit women . “That leaves millions of people — over half of all adult women — who are excluded from standard size ranges” in their 20s and beyond.
In the 1930s, a radical conservative political group almost succeeded in overthrowing Finland’s democracy : Called the Lapua movement, it was a far-right group of Finns who sought to overthrow the republic, marginalize communists, and install an authoritarian government. They
This spring, TASCHEN releases 'Ai Weiwei. Updated Edition,' with a new decade's work included. 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 A Newly Updated
A list of all the media (movies, books, TV shows, plays, etc.) consumed by Steven Soderbergh in 2025 .
"Is there anything we know more intimately than the fleetingness of time, the transience of each and every moment?"
The Brattle theater is playing what they call the Ultimate Double Feature : “we play the first movie up until the point when the characters enter a cinema to watch a different film”, then play the entirety of that 2nd film, then finish up the 1st film.
You know who else had a Greenland obsession? “Greenland appears to have been a lifelong preoccupation of Adolf Hitler’s.”
I love these collage illustrations of various celebrities and famous characters by artist/designer Fries Vansevenant : Han Solo & Luke Skywalker , Notorious BIG , Heath Ledger’s Joker , Beatrix Kiddo , David Beckham . There are more on his Insta . Tags: art · design · Fries
"Beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself."
Amid growing cultural panic about the use of AI in writing, we’re missing the most important point: AI cannot write - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Helene Schjerfbeck’s penetrating self-portraits at The Met, Pride flag artist’s foundation sues the Trump administration, and remembering Henrike Naumann.
Your inability to focus isn’t a failing. It’s a design problem, and the answer isn’t getting rid of our screen time - by Carlo Iacono Read on Aeon
When phone cameras got good enough, portrait photographers scolded people who took their own headshots. And when the Mac got pretty good at typesetting, professional designers pointed out that people who can’t tell a font from a typeface and don’t care about kerning should
The saying “You can’t take it with you” may be a cliché to all of us here in the twenty-first century, but it would hardly have made sense to an ancient Egyptian. One of the most widely known qualities of that civilization’s upper crust, after all, is that its members spared no
One thing they don’t teach you in parenting school is how to guide a young child into making fewer mistakes in her homework, while also communicating to her that mistakes are not “bad” but often “good” in that they can be conduits for creative thinking and intuitive pathways to
"While wandering down the path of wonder, I briefly escape the world of separation and enter the world of unity."
"Crisis... is an attempt to dislodge us from a toxic status quo and constitutes an insistent call to rebuild our lives on a more authentic and sincere basis."