The Cartoonist Who Mocked the Madness of Modernism

"With biting satire, Alan Dunn captured how 20th-century architectural trends left everyday Americans astonished, baffled, and enraged."

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Meticulously Detailed Natural Specimens by Marisa Aragón Ware Emerge from Paper

"Because paper is such an everyday material, there’s something especially powerful about transforming it into something unexpected." 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

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15 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This Summer

A romp through early punk culture, Odilon Redon’s dreamy portraiture, Willie Birch’s papier-mâché odes to New Orleans, Samella Lewis’s visions in woodcut, and more.

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Seattle Artists Breathe Life Into Houses Slated for Demolition

“We want to act as a little eddy in the stream of gentrification, giving these houses one last burst of life before they’re gone,” one of the organizers of “Once Removed” told Hyperallergic.

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Lucian Freud’s Dozing Nude Could Fetch $47M at Auction

"Sleeping By the Lion Carpet" (1995–96) is the last in a series of monumental portraits of Sue Tilley in resting postures.

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The 100 Greatest Bird Names of All Time , including...

The 100 Greatest Bird Names of All Time , including Inaccessible Island Rail, Macaroni Penguin, Morepork, Chocolate Boobook, Dickcissel, Carunculated Caracara, and Resplendent Quetzal.

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Artist Julio Le Parc, Maestro of Light, Movement, and Defiance, Dies at 97

While his contemporaries focused on abstraction’s retinal possibilities, he viewed the liberation of the spectator as parallel to society's.

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Met Museum Announces Free Memberships for NY SNAP Recipients

Millions of residents across New York State are now eligible for the "Explorer" program, which offers perks like streamlined entry and special previews.

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Life With Locked-in Syndrome: ‘Despite Everything, You Are Alive’

"Matt Rudd has remarkable conversations with three Britons who, after life-changing accidents, have fully active minds but cannot move or speak, and can communicate only via the blink of an eye."

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Celia Paul Makes Her Own Way

Plus, Frank Stella’s collection of Navajo weavings and Martha Cooper’s iconic New York.

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The Best Thing About The Satanic Panic . “There’s...

The Best Thing About The Satanic Panic . “There’s a phenomenon called the rhyme-as-reason effect that says people are more likely to believe something is true if it rhymes.”

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Václav Havel, Writing from Prison, on How to Hold Your Failure

Few things in life are more devastating than to give something your all and still fail. Not the “fail better” of startup culture, not the “fail forward” of self-help, not the failure that is childhood’s fulcrum of learning, not the inspired mistakes that propel creative risk,

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JS Crossword . “This crossword uses some...

JS Crossword . “This crossword uses some lesser-known and cursed JS features, so I’d recommend it for people already somewhat familiar with JavaScript.” Diabolical.

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Jongjin Park Layers Slip-Soaked Paper into Patchwork Sculptures

From paper towel drenched in ceramic slip, Jongjin Park sculpts these layered forms. 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 Jongjin Park Layers

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Daft Punk, Medieval-Style

Watch and listen to bardcore trio Courseval play a cover version of Daft Punk’s Veridis Quo, a track from Discovery. This is lovely. And a banger. Courseval have covered other popular music in medieval style, including Rihanna’s Umbrella , Take On Me by A-Ha , Bad Romance by

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Frozen To -22 Degrees, BYD’s New EV Just Charged To 97%...

Frozen To -22 Degrees, BYD’s New EV Just Charged To 97% In Only 12 Minutes . This is genuinely impressive — charging and driving an EV in subzero winter weather is just brutal (ask me how I know).

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They’re doing a film adaptation of Tomorrow, and...

They’re doing a film adaptation of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow . Daisy Edgar-Jones will play Sadie (perfect choice) and the director is Oscar-winner Siân Heder (Coda).

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The Small Miracle of Greenpoint Open Studios

The annual festival, which went on hiatus during the pandemic, welcomed visitors into the workspaces of over 250 artists in the Brooklyn neighborhood.

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Hard Rain

"The battle over weather modification."

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Spectral Fronds and Flowers Comprise Elegant Animals in Molly Devlin’s Paintings

Part fauna and part flora, each elegant animal is a reminder of nature's interconnectedness. 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 Spectral Fronds and

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The Birds of Palestine

Illustrator John Rooney has teamed up with the Middle East Children’s Alliance to produce and sell this Birds of Palestine print . Rooney on Instagram : “All profits will be going towards providing emergency assistance to children and families in what is still a dire situation

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TIL that Andreessen Horowitz owns/runs the NYC Tech Week...

TIL that Andreessen Horowitz owns/runs the NYC Tech Week event . Among other things, A16Z made Daniel Penny a partner in the firm despite no investing experience after he killed a homeless Black man on the NYC subway.

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If You Take the Weasel Job Then You Must Be the Weasel ....

If You Take the Weasel Job Then You Must Be the Weasel . “Bilton reveals himself as a goon, a soft-peddler, a PR man, an obfuscator; the opposite of everything that 60 Minutes is supposed to be”.

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Re the Patagonia vs. Pattie Gonia case : the company...

Re the Patagonia vs. Pattie Gonia case : the company should sponsor her environmental efforts and part of that is a trademark agreement where each side compromises a little bit; Pattie can keep doing her thing and Patagonia is seen as an ally again.

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Jerry Gogosian Dies at 40

News about Hilde Lynn Helphenstein’s sudden death shocked the art world.

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Living in an Alive World

Soft eyes, deep listening, and other ways to extend human perception beyond our limits.

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Stop ruining it

Paul McGowan makes stereos. To paraphrase his insight: The musicality isn’t a feature you add to an amplifier. It’s what’s left when you stop ruining it. To expand: Customer delight isn’t something we add to our projects. It’s what’s left if we don’t ruin it. Curiosity isn’t

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An Introduction to the Islamic World: 1,000 Years of History in 19 Minutes

References to Islam in major media can make it sound monolithic and eternal. But it’s actually a much younger and less unified phenomenon than many of us imagine, especially if we happen to live outside the Middle East. As a religion, it dates back “only” to the seventh

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The First Live Performance of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (1991)

It’s almost 35 years ago now that Nirvana’s video for “Smells Like Teen Spirit” debuted on MTV’s 120 Minutes and, for better or worse, inaugurated the grunge era. The video (below) arrived as a shock and a thrill to a generation too young to remember punk and sick of the steady

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The Only Three Distinctions Between People

It may be that consciousness evolved to sieve the relevant from the incomprehensible allness of all there is, to parse the world into concepts and find an organizing principle for the chaos of them. Our cognitive inheritance is a restless yearning to fathom how things cohere

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