Just as there are transitional times in the life of the world — dark periods of disorientation between two world systems, periods in which humanity loses the ability to comprehend itself and collapses into chaos in order to rebuild itself around a new organizing principle —
"The Stolen Dove" is a participatory project that turns a decades-old monument into an artwork to keep the scholar and civil rights leader’s memory alive.
His rejection of certainty is an urgent reminder that imagination should not be neglected in the pursuit of art.
Dmitriy Popov killed the Black gay dancer O'Shae Sibley at a Brooklyn gas station in 2023 in a homophobic hate crime.
The 3,000-year-old Iranian discs turned red-carpet jewelry are emblematic of a market that has spent decades quietly dismantling ancient objects for parts.
"Making sense of a complicated family legacy."
The exhibition also celebrates the 20th anniversary of The Gordon Parks Foundation. 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 ‘Voices in the Mirror’ Honors
"To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love."
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Every 122 years, Venus crosses the Sun as a black and fleeting teardrop, kindling the awe of all those who dare to know - by Ananya Palivela Read on Aeon
Showcasing stories from William Finnegan, Meghan Flaherty, Kulsoom Ijaz, Amy Weiss-Meyer, and Dan Werb.
There are lots of things you can do, but it’s not clear you should. OpenAI has virtually unlimited resources. And in addition to building a chat-based AI, they chose to launch pretty good image generation, a basketball, a meme video generator (since cancelled), an upcoming
William Blake is a household name, or not far from it, but things get more complicated when it comes to professional description. He was a poet, a painter, and a printmaker, at least insofar as he wrote poetry, painted paintings, and made prints. But we can’t hope to attain
You’re gearing up to see Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey, but you haven’t read the Homeric work. Or you read it so long ago that it feels like you’ve never read it at all. No worries. Above, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, the hosts of The Rest Is History podcast, take you
"I have got to make everything that has happened to me good for me... There is not a single degradation of the body which I must not try and make into a spiritualising of the soul."