Are you feeling "muy bien?" 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 Quirky and Joyous Social Movement Builds in Xinobi’s Music Video for ‘Strides’
A thoughtful essay about e-bikes as a metaphor for AI , augmentation vs amputation, and the bargain of innovation. “We often consider what technology promises to enable for us, without considering what it will almost certainly disable.”
"Those of us who’ve been very unsafe as children, we seek out the unsafe. We seek out the lack of security, and if you have security, you blow it up."
From Lewis Hine, a photograph of Clyde Bradford . Hine’s photos of child laborers resulted in some of the first laws in the US against child labor. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Drawn from real places around the country, PITR's detailed works read like portraits of one continuous city. 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 PITR
In 1987, choir director Dennis Bell arranged a version of U2’s #1 hit I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For for his choir, the New Voices of Freedom. After hearing a recording of the arrangement, U2 asked Bell & the choir to join the band for an upcoming show at Madison
A list of 29 heroes and interesting people that few people have heard of . I’ve only heard of one or two of these folks. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Tempestt Hazel, Paul Chaat Smith (Comanche Nation), and America Meredith (Cherokee Nation) are among this year’s recipients.
"In the early days of flight, airships were hailed as the future of war. Then disaster struck the USS Akron."
Listen to the boundless sounds of nature, the great animal orchestra, whose songs imbue the world with fresh meaning - by Jay Griffiths Read on Psyche
Here’s a quick tactical riff about how we name things. It’s worth considering that: If you’ve got four initiatives going on, numbering or even lettering them can’t help but communicate a priority to others. Considering flavoring them instead. When there’s an orange, a blue and
“May you live in interesting times,” goes the apocryphal but nevertheless much-invoked “Chinese curse.” Egon Schiele, born in the Austria-Hungary of 1890, certainly did live in interesting times, and his work, as featured in the new Great Art Explained video above, can look
The jukebox got its start earlier than you might think, but it truly became iconic when rock 'n' roll took over in the 1950s
Our brains dictate our every move. They’re the ones who spur us to study hard, so we can make something of ourselves, in order to better our communities. They name our babies, choose our clothes, decide what we’re hungry for. They make and break laws, organize protests, fritter
The Baltimore Museum of Art is exhibiting Amy Sherald’s American Sublime show after Sherald pulled it from the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery due to attempted censorship . I saw this in NYC; it’s fantastic. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
The Foundation wants to transform the complex into a residency program, a plan it says will keep longtime tenants in their studios amid concerns over the sale.
Radical Chicano printmaking, Trenton Doyle Hancock confronts Philip Guston, the LA and California biennials, American Artist on Octavia E. Butler, and more.
From Orbital Mechanics , a visualization of the 2153 nuclear weapons exploded on Earth since 1945. 2153! I had no idea there had been that much testing. According to Wikipedia , the number is 2119 tests, with most of those coming from the US (1032) and the USSR (727). The
Rejin Ley’s paper sculptures at a historic museum, Christian Marclay’s concept of doors as transformative spaces, Marian Spore Bush’s 1930s prophecies of WWII, and more.
On the centennial of the movement, Film Forum is hosting a months-long retrospective of screenings.
The 52-year-old Brooklyn resident allegedly falsified provenance documents to conceal the artifacts' illicit origins.
A lawyer for the Norwegian tourist who was denied entry at the US border told Hyperallergic that ICE and CBP’s response "raises concern about how his case was handled.”
3books , a site that features the books recommended by guests at the end of each Ezra Klein Show podcast. Built by my pal Michael Sippey . 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
"Shame seemed like an obstacle to appreciating the poet. Instead, it became the key to understanding her work."
Great interactive feature on how former world record holder Max Park solves the Rubik’s Cube . You scroll through his slow-motion solve — he makes 12 moves in the first second. “It’s like playing chess at the speed of ping pong.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
What does creativity in confinement look like? A bold exhibition offers a look. 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 ‘Between the Lines’ Showcases the
I loved this: The History of The New Yorker’s Vaunted Fact-Checking Department . “The writer had already engaged in the charm and betrayal inherent in reporting. We were in the harm-reduction business.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
In the mid-70s, Mike Mandel traveled around the United States photographing photographers as if they were baseball players , capturing the likes of Imogen Cunningham, Ed Ruscha, William Eggleston, and Ansel Adams. I photographed photographers as if they were baseball players
On view at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art through December 6, a Middle Eastern immigrant artist explores migration, land, and memory in the American South using dust paintings, ceramics, sound, and video.
Through December 7, Eric-Paul Riege’s work celebrates ancestral traditions of labor contained within Indigenous-made objects.
Hothouse, an apprenticeship program of the National Film Board of Canada, invites participants to create ultra-short animations. 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
How the Richest People in America Avoid Paying Taxes . “The country’s billionaires pay lower tax rates than many of its millionaires do. Indeed, they pay lower tax rates than many middle-class professionals.”