Against the morphological backdrop of the rest of nature, a giant pink bird on stilts sounds like something out of Lewis Carroll’s imagination. And yet flamingos came out of evolution’s laboratory, surprising and inevitable as the neocortex, so extravagant in their
Astronaut Michael Fincke was rendered unable to speak while on the ISS , prompting an evacuation to Earth. “We’re almost 100% sure that this is a space-related thing.” Uh, I’ve been reading a lot of sci-fi recently; this is *exactly* how It starts.
A new study shows that since 1990, the United States has caused $10 trillion in global climate damages . China is responsible for $9T. “Our emissions have caused damage not only to ourselves, but pretty substantial damage in other parts of the world.”
Jesus Clarifies Return Will Be Strictly Limited To Carpentry Business . “My sole focus during this Second Coming will be various woodworking projects and not the establishment of a messianic kingdom.”
The new exhibition space will connect the art and historical legacy of Ancient Egypt and North Africa to that of the rest of the continent.
Italian police are searching for the works after a middle-of-the-night heist at a small museum outside of Parma.
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"The rules dictated that I hide not only my sensitivity but my essential being in the world."
“In a time of unprecedented division,” reads a plaque, “President Trump focused on what truly mattered: remodeling the Lincoln bathroom in the White House.”
"In baseball and in life, there is a cost to our pursuit of an error-free existence."
“Art is a way that we get to connect with each other, to witness each other, and to give a little bit of a buoy to keep going,” one protester told Hyperallergic.
How to survive the age of AI, and a new film tries its best to dramatize the rivalry between two British landscape painters.
A new retrospective at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid traces Uslé's work from a Spanish shipwreck to its rebirth in New York City
I love these looping GIF animations from perfectl00p that use Windows 3.1 elements (Minesweeper, Solitaire, SkiFree, Notepad).
For Kathleen Ryan, the myriad colors and textures of mold continue to inspire larger-than-life sculptures that, in a way, preserve decay. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7
Free and open to the public, Pratt Shows celebrate the school’s graduating students. MFA and BFA work is on view this spring in Brooklyn, New York.
The camera glides smoothly over landscapes of old England in a film that tries hard to dramatize the rivalry between the two masters.
In praise of "the necessary and urgent need to love life and one another, despite the casual cruelty of the world."
"There are more things ... likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality."
When Princeton University asked two directors to produce a marketing video, it became a work of art – and a time capsule - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
One-on-one with the curator of a historic Raphael exhibition at The Met, Robert Therrien's oversized furniture, artists against nuclear weapons, and how to save yourself from AI.
ADHD isn’t merely a dysfunction. It’s best understood as an impulsive motivational drive for novel information - by Anne-Laure Le Cunff Read on Aeon
Threshold Art Retreats are for artists seeking creative exploration in an extraordinary setting at the Château de La Napoule. 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.
Xiaoze Xie contends with the long legacy of censorship by casting banned books in porcelain. 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 Xiaoze Xie Preserves a
If it’s important, don’t ask the team to try harder. Instead, create the conditions for ordinary effort to produce redundant outputs that reduce crises. If quality is a problem, look at the system, not the people.
It takes about five hours to drive from Düsseldorf to Hamburg on the Autobahn. During that stretch, you can listen to Kraftwerk’s album Autobahn seven times — or if you prefer, you can loop its eponymous opening song thirteen times. For it was “Autobahn,” more so than Autobahn,
You can’t beat the market. That, at least, is the advice we all encounter early on when first we try our hand at investing. Homespun though it may sound, the idea has academic roots: the Efficient Market Hypothesis, as the economists call it, holds that the prices in any