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Media companies are increasingly blocking the Internet...
Media companies are increasingly blocking the Internet Archive from archiving their material (but at the same time using the site to gather data for their stories).
Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Artist Who Confronted Injustice, Dies at 46
She stood up for human rights in both her paintings and her advocacy, criticizing Israel’s violence against Palestinians and the rise of fascism in the US.
Flowers for Things I Don’t Know How to Say: A Tender Painted Lexicon of Consolation and Connection
“To be a Flower is profound Responsibility,” Emily Dickinson wrote. From the moment she pressed the first wildflower into her astonishing teenage herbarium until the moment Susan pinned a violet to her alabaster chest in the casket, she filled her poems with flowers and made of
The Absolute Hell of Watching a Movie at the Alamo Drafthouse in 2026
"Once America's most promising movie theater chain has become a QR-coded symbol of corporate enshittification."
The Christophers
I’m so glad Steven Soderbergh unretired from filmmaking. His newest film, The Christophers, looks amazing . It stars Ian McKellen as a famous artist and Michaela Coel as his assistant — but of course there’s more to it. Reviewer David Sims calls it both a heist movie and “a
Gagosian to Debut New Gallery With Duchamp’s “Readymades”
The exhibition will run concurrently with the artist's first United States retrospective in over 50 years at the Museum of Modern Art.
Trump Plays Christ and Gets the Wound Wrong
The president’s latest attempt to fashion himself as an American messiah is costing him some of his most loyal Catholic supporters.
We love a slime mold around here. “From mottled...
We love a slime mold around here. “From mottled gray bulbs that look like snow-covered trees to pink, coral-like tendrils, Webb chronicles a huge array of colors and shapes.”
Cinga Samson Conjures Mystery and the Sublime in Large-Scale Oil Paintings
The artist's solo exhibition, 'Ukuphuthelwa' at White Cube, continues through April 18. 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 Cinga Samson Conjures
This is incredible: Google Has a Secret Reference Desk....
This is incredible: Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here’s How to Use It. I knew some of these but not all, e.g. verbatim mode “returns results for exactly what you typed, stripped of personalization and synonym-swapping.”
The Crystal Skull
David Altmejd’s 2017 sculpture entitled “God” is one of the most disturbing artworks I’ve seen recently, so naturally I had to show all of you. If you need further wigging out, here you go . Lots more on his website and Instagram . Tags: art · David Altmejd
Chicana Painter Criselda Vasquez Says ICE Detained Her Father
Vasquez was inspired by her Mexican immigrant parents to paint her celebrated 2017 portrait “The New American Gothic.”
Christopher Hitchens on Mortality
"To the dumb question 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: Why not?"
Steve DiBenedetto’s Cosmic Sense of the Absurd
He conceives of a painting as a search for a functional structure, a talisman that can aid viewers amid our collective sense of traumatic crisis.
Great new Patrick Radden Keefe piece on a New Orleans...
Great new Patrick Radden Keefe piece on a New Orleans insurance fraud scheme involving big rig s. “After all, who would agree to be cut open on an operating table if it weren’t necessary? Quite a lot of people, it turns out.”
Jeremy Frey: The Generational Impact of a New Artistic Path
Join us on April 29 for a conversation with artist and recent MacArthur Fellowship winner Jeremy Frey and Hyperallergic Editor-at-Large Hrag Vartanian.
The Car-Crash Conspiracy
"High-speed accidents, crooked lawyers, and poor people desperate for cash—it was the kind of scheme that could have been cooked up only in the Big Easy."
Fred Again’s Tiny Desk Concert
Almost three years ago exactly, Fred Again rolled into the NPR studios and did a Tiny Desk Concert . When Fred again.. first proposed a Tiny Desk concert, it wasn’t immediately clear how he was going to make it work — not because he lacked creativity, but because translating
Why Japan Has Such Good Railways . “Their system...
Why Japan Has Such Good Railways . “Their system excels because of good public policy: business structure, land use rules, driving rules, superior models for privatization, and sound regulation.” Other countries can follow their lead.
Ai Weiwei and the Art of Keeping Your Mouth Shut
“On Censorship” offers timely reflections from the dissident artist, whose entire life and career have been marked by state persecution.
Rebecca Solnit: “ The United States is being...
Rebecca Solnit: “ The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job . Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled.”
Hungarian Opposition Ousts Viktor Orbán After 16 Years...
Hungarian Opposition Ousts Viktor Orbán After 16 Years in Power . “Magyar…pledged to repair Hungary’s strained relationship with the EU, crack down on corruption and funnel funds towards long-neglected public services.”
Interviews with five novelists (Jesmyn Ward, Joyce Carol...
Interviews with five novelists (Jesmyn Ward, Joyce Carol Oates, Jhumpa Lahiri, Ottessa Moshfegh, Margaret Atwood) on writing something true with fiction . Oates: “If you could read Toni Morrison, why would you read AI?”
What Is a "Post-Duchamp" Art World?
Art fair dispatches from Chicago to São Paulo, Thierry de Duve on Duchamp at MoMA, and Ela Troyano remembers Agosto Machado.
The sterilisation-seekers
In the story of eugenics, disabled people are often depicted as passive victims. But for some it seemed an opportunity - by Coreen McGuire & Alex Aylward Read on Aeon
Isaac Asimov Reviews George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Calls It “Not Science Fiction, But a Distorted Nostalgia for a Past that Never Was”
Here in the twenty-twenties, a young reader first hearing of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four would hardly imagine it to be a work of science fiction. That wouldn’t have been the case in 1949, when the novel was first published, and when the eponymous year would have
Avoiding the purity loop
Some vegans don’t eat avocados. They’re concerned that the bees that are trucked in to pollinate the trees are mistreated, and so they choose to not support this practice. But we live in community, and someone running a vegan restaurant or serving a meal to vegan friends,
Sci-Fi Writer Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Future in 1964: Artificial Intelligence, Instantaneous Global Communication, Remote Work, Singularity & More
Are you feeling confident about the future? No? We understand. Would you like to know what it was like to feel a deep certainty that the decades to come were going to be filled with wonder and the fantastic? Well then, gaze upon this clip from the BBC Archive YouTube channel of
How to See More Clearly and Love More Purely: Iris Murdoch on the Angst of Not Knowing Ourselves and Each Other
One of the hardest things to learn in life is that the heart is a clock too fast not to break. We lurch into loving, only to discover again and again that it takes a long time to know people, to understand people — and “understanding is love’s other name.” Even without