I just went down a rabbit hole of incense seals. So cool.
I just went down a rabbit hole of incense seals . So cool.
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New Art Books from the Quarto Group
From art history to instruction, Quarto publishes visually-rich books for artists of all mediums and skill levels.
A Felix Gonzalez-Torres Exhibition Forgets What He Was Fighting For
“Sweet Revenge” at the Reina Sofía gives the impression of a showcase of a second-generation Minimalist artist, emphasizing form over anything else.
Symmetry Meets the Sacred in Shuling Guo’s Dreamy, Diffused Paintings
Guo's paintings in 'Temple II,' opening next week at Hollis Taggart, explore memory, presence, and loss. 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 Symmetry
Bill McKibben: I’m Exhausted. You’re Demoralized. We...
Bill McKibben: I’m Exhausted. You’re Demoralized. We Weren’t Built for a World Like This. The human nervous system wasn’t designed for the polycrisis. “Among all the other dangers these developments represent, they’re simply wearing us out.”
Over $100,000 in Prizes and New Public Art Opportunities at 2027 ArtFields Festival
Southern artists can apply now to show in Lake City, SC, where the whole town becomes a gallery April 15 - May 1, 2027.
France’s Student Protests in Photos
The defining images of the nationwide movement, New York drag artists celebrate queer politics and joy, and the scoop on Hyperallergic’s Halloween plans.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Stories on the color orange, the data center rush, a local hero, the AI labour takeover, and a boy dinner subreddit.
Barbara Ward’s vision
She was among the first to argue that prosperity, equality and the protection of nature are inseparable planetary goals - by Or Rosenboim Read on Aeon
Thin friction and thicker walls
Civilized culture is based on a thin sort of friction. You don’t yell at the library, act boorish at a restaurant or hassle a minor celebrity at the supermarket. It’s just not done. The result of these human layers and inferences are cues and norms that add up to a connected,
David Byrne’s New Book Explores the Strange Afterlife of Good Ideas: From Vermeer’s Paintings to Roman Concrete & Dark Matter
David Byrne will always be most widely known as the co-founder and frontman of Talking Heads. That may count among the greatest possible achievements for any artist — to the minds of many an Open Culture reader, at least — but it must occasionally frustrate the man himself.
Sleeping Beauties: David Byrne on Why Transformative Ideas Fall Dormant and How They Awaken to Change the World
Each time you look up at the night sky, you see only ancient signals — by the time a photon has reached your pupil, the star that emitted it may be long dead. The great wonder is that its light can traverse immense expanses of space and time to gladden the darkness of today, to
In 1996, the Blondin family drove all around the US,...
In 1996, the Blondin family drove all around the US, blogging about it all before “blog” was even a word . “We were doing something that had no name and no manual, and we were doing it over a dial-up modem while living in a motorhome.”
Improvisation and the Quantum of Consciousness
Inside the brain's secret portal to remembering the future.
Chasing a Plane Across the Moon
Agustín Ferrando Trenchi became a little obsessed with the moon as a kid. As an adult, he’s taken tons of photos and hundreds of hours of footage of the moon. After seeing an airplane fly close to the moon while he filmed, Trenchi began a quest to capture a plane flying across
How to Remake Yourself When You Are Undone: Lincoln and the Gift of His Suicidal Depression
Life-affirming inspiration from a man who knew intimately “that intensity of thought, which will some times wear the sweetest idea thread-bare and turn it to the bitterness of death.”
Mary Deleary Named Director of IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts
Plus, the Boston Public Art Triennial’s curatorial team, Kinosaito fall artist residents, and Mariah Carey’s “Last Supper” selfie in this week's Art Movements.
15 Defining Photos From the Student Protests in France
Painted signs and trash bins have become a visual lexicon of resistance as protesters call for educational reform and an immediate end to police violence.
Abolish Frat Culture. “This is going to be uncomfortable...
Abolish Frat Culture . “This is going to be uncomfortable for anyone with a kid in a fraternity to hear: If your son finds himself in a group that would send a ‘free pussy’ text, it’s too late. The group is the disease, the text is the symptom.”
The Ritual Joy of Queer Performance Refuses to Give Up
Reigning diva Amygdala brings Brooklyn drag to Manhattan in “Pleasure Dome: Continuum,” a fête of therapeutic sound, vaudeville tributes, and queer politics.
EMΣT in Athens Wins European Art Museum Award for Social Impact
Greece’s National Museum of Contemporary Art edged out institutions such as the Rijksmuseum and FENIX Museum of Migration in the Netherlands.
Congressman Calls on Smithsonian to Document Trump’s “Narcissistic Self-Worship”
Democrat Jamie Raskin’s proposed bill asks the institution to preserve items related to Trump’s “propagandistic assault on American history.”
Any Human Ever randomly picks an average person from some...
Any Human Ever randomly picks an average person from some point in human history and tells you about what their life was like. Mine was a woman born in 1547: “Of all the sounds of her life, the loudest were thunder and the church bells.”