Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket . “There’s no point beating yourself up for failing to clear a backlog (of unread books, undone tasks, unrealized dreams) that was always inherently unfeasible to clear in the first place.”
Reviews on major exhibitions at the New Museum, Guggenheim, and MoMA PS1, what it takes to get a fair union contract, and finding joy in the history of concrete.
From the early 1970s until his death in 2021, Korean artist Kim Tschang-Yeul painted water droplets. From one of the galleries representing his work: The waterdrop was the starting point for a singular and iconic body of work, which stands at the confluence of lyrical
The death of web development education . “The income from my book sales went from being enough for me to live off (2024) to zero (2026).”
Christine Sun Kim, Rodney McMillian, Vincent Valdez, and Chip Thomas are among the 20 recipients of the $800,000 prize.
Beneath the ruins of the Baths of Trajan, a giant mosaic and unusual fresco remind us of the continual discovery of the wondrous: Rome’s ongoing lesson.
Brent Simmons on how using the stock Mac UI isn’t the easy choice it used to be . “Many of the apps people think look good are not using stock UI.” Simmons’ own quickie redesign of NetNewsWire looks much better to me than the Liquid Glassified version.
From $1,600 dental bills to $16,000 emergency procedures, artists and culture workers weigh in on the rising cost of caring for their closest companions.
In “Source Materials: A Bioart Exhibit,” artists share their visions for a future of art-making rooted in local ecosystems, scientific inquiry, and collaboration.
Potentially averting strike action, both unions are set to vote on ratifying the tentative agreements with their respective museums starting today, September 29.
How do we get rubber gloves and fish? 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 Workforce of Creatures Chugs Along in Kate Renshaw-Lewis’ Hand-Drawn Film
Trump officials removed the work from an embassy in the Dominican Republic in August, labeling it "woke."
I keep a list of things I want to do for KDO in Apple Notes, organized into four sections: small, medium, large, and longshots/obsolete. This note contains tweaks, bug fixes, code refactoring, new site features, roadmap items, 1 infrastructure migrations, potential project
Inspired by his island upbringing on O’ahu, Hawai’i, Ching turns to nature as a boundless source of wonder and solace. 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
The Bizarre, Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris . “Ironically, Tetris’s success began because the totalitarian Soviet regime did not recognize what we take for granted in the West: the freedom to publish.”
You may remember a time when it was difficult to make it through the day without hearing someone cite a TED Talk. A major technological reason for that was streaming video’s new accessibility on practically everyone’s computer (especially those of people bored at work). A major
On commodified, automated intelligence . “If any of these things shake out and we make it out of the near-future, the best you can hope for is a universal basic income, pegged to a meaningful percentage of existing compute.” (God that’s bleak.)
The Berlin-based artist and inventor is fascinated by the convergence of art, science, and technology. 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 Niklas Roy
There are, in my experience, two fundaments of the creative life: putting yourself regularly in the path of wonder and getting out of your own way in order to receive what you encounter there. Wonder, like enchantment, is not something you can control or plan for or will — it
Highlighting patterns of war and migration, her installation "Tidal Crossing" is the latest artist intervention at the Brooklyn Army Terminal.
Over the past six months, dozens of people pitched in to create the MN Stolen Neighbors Quilt , which is made of 12,500 squares, each one representing an immigrant abducted in Minnesota by the Trump regime’s secret police (ICE + CBP). The quilt was recently unveiled at the MN
In the wake of her divorce, Curtis Sittenfeld revisits her 2015 piece on marriage . “Toward the end, I felt as if the best versions of ourselves had married and the worst versions of ourselves were getting divorced.”
"I had to do everything the jurors did—sit in every court session, examine each piece of evidence, look out from the jury box every day at a man accused of murder—but I wouldn’t participate in the deliberation unless two jurors dropped out."
The union prepares for work stoppage ahead of the Lichtenstein show. Plus, Teresa Margolles distills the language of violence at MoMA PS1.
Lost in a maze or found in a labyrinth? Come, let’s keep walking.
A cancer diagnosis carries with it fear and upheaval. For many patients the cellular changes do not warrant the label - by Matthew R Cooperberg Read on Aeon
We avoid this question all the time, and it costs us. Don’t put kerosene in an electric car. It won’t work. Don’t give your dog dark chocolate, it’ll make him sick. And yet, we often hesitate to be honest about what gets us moving. What puts something at the top of your
In the fall of 1969 the Rolling Stones were in a Los Angeles recording studio, putting the final touches on their album Let It Bleed. It was a tumultuous time for the Stones. They had been struggling with the album for the better part of a year as they dealt with the personal
OpenAI isn’t going to release its newest model because “it showed high levels of what the company saw as deception, or a willingness to mislead users about its actions [and] was also willing to go beyond the original scope of what it was asked to do”.
This American Life has a whole episode with Nikole Hannah-Jones and her daughter Najya , following up on her NYT article about Nikole’s school choice for Najya .
Whoa, for the 50th anniversary of Songs in the Key of Life, Stevie Wonder has released four additional songs from that recording session . “We didn’t add these songs to the album, but they were part of what I was feeling and discovering as we made it.”